Fat skis, like snowboards, make it much easier to be a bad skier. Long, skinny non-rockered skis required skill and balance because they did not work unless your weight followed the tips of the skis....

If you want to understand our wildfire future check out the book FIRE WEATHER. Great story that integrates climate change info into the wild and urban fire equation.

Climate change will cause economic collapse and military conflict over dwindiling rescources. It is already causing massive climate migration and you can see all the resulting international strife....

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Dominique Perret signature Pro Model 204 mm length Stormriders, still in very good shape. I aged out on usings these a few years back. Tip to tail camber, triple layer titanal, 74 mm waist. Pette was...

You appear to be asking about permenently trading your current lifestyle for your past life with family and friends. Are you sorry you left? If not, you will regret going back. Oh yeah, you can...

As I said, I am in no way an expert on SA, but from my experience and investigation of options for skiing down there I agree that LL is a very good call if they have a good winter. Keep in mind that...

It would be a long way to go to find out you did not really have a job. The Andes, particularly that far south, have some weather issues, but I have skied a lot of places and I was blown away with...

My experience is limited but for my money Portillo is too small to spend a season. If the lake is not frozen it gets even smaller. They have side/back country but it is mostly vertical, which poses...

Being "driven" at a world class level is usually the result of being chased by internal demons, and demons don't retire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZuMcqI9xoo

A download of the book this is based on is available for free in PDF form.

That's correct, but there was some kind of import/distribution snafu that kept them in a warehouse until about 2017. Anybody know of someone actually getting a pair in 2012? They were billed as...

So with Mt. Bach having one of the best snowpacks in the country, how many days has the Summit Lift actually been open this season?

If that were true then all those people would not be asking to get off the drug for the holidays. Apparently their brains did not really want to eat less. You are talking about temporarily blocking a...

Just saw an article about the large number of people on Ozempic, etc. who are going to their doctors to see if they can go off it for the holidays or when taking a cruise so they can ramp up their...

Toadman, it looks like you scored some sweet turns this morning but you've been living in the PNW too long if you use "cream.cheese" and "pow day" in the same sentence.

You better ease up, you are really starting to sound like a shill for the drug companies. You are not only a self-appointed expert and opinion arbtrator, but now you are claiming psychic powers with...

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I will not deny that Ozempic is beneficial to many patients, but I am afraid that it is soon going to be prescribed on a huge scale to over a hundred million obese people in this country. Common...

My point was not about the how but the why. Regardless of whether you lose weight by diet or drug, it does not change the psychology. Does a long time fat person who experiences a substantial life...

Studies show that 80 - 90% of people who lose weight on a diet gain it back, which would appear to prove that losing weight does not motivate people to change there lifestyle to stay thinner, and...

It is delusional to think that taking any drug will jumpstart or motivate people to make a major lifestyle change from eatng junk food and not exercising to a healthier place. The drug will do...

Try moving you cleats back as far as they will go on your mtb shoes. You might have to lower your seat just a hair to make the spin feel right. This has greatly increased my foot and knee comfort...

Grumpy old men is a real thing. The older you get the less you are willing to tolerate b.s., which coincides with the realization that almost everything is b.s., hence you get cantankerous.

I've spent a fair bit of time in old and New Mexico. Always felt NM is more like Old Mecxico than the US.

Sounds like a classic case of "This is public land, I'm a member of the public and therefore I have the right to do anything I want on it," mindset.

Evolution is a relentless process, yet despite tens of thousands of years it seems humans' propensity for extreme cruelty has not abatted in the least. Apprently all, or at least a very high...

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If you want to understand where AI is at and where it is going in the next 30 years read his new book The Singularity is NEARER.

These peaked my interest too. From what I can tell they are Kastle's attempt to get good skiers on their brand at a lower price point. Kinda of a BMX with no metal, so easier and therefore cheaper to...

What you got left for how much $?

I've probably have 500 days on mine and have to tighten them as hard as I can to the point there is no give left, so they have basically become regular power straps. Thanks for the reminder to get...

Until Ikon and Mt. Collective BS survived on heavy marketing to the midwest and northeast. Those folks loved the thousands of acres of intermediate groomers and think flat light is a normal skiing...

Lived in MT when Big Sky opened and have skied it off and on through its history, including a few days last year. Have a friend who has owned a small condo there since the 1980's and I've been...

My wife and I have spent our lives living and traveling for skiing the Rockies and Canada. Since retiring 10 years ago, moving several times and spending every winter chasing the goods we have come...

Sorry for the Tech Interlude: Anybody know a boot fitter in Bend who has experience punching Pebax shell AT boot? Thanks, carry on!

My sentiments exactly! Just finished my 2nd day at Jackson Hole on my 188 AM R99s and am finding them more than adequate in places I never expected. Because of my size I tend to over ski them when...

Red Mt, Rossland, BC. $25 CAD (which is about $17.50 US) a night. No ammenities but very close to lodge for bathrooms, water and good WIFI. No reservation required, but you need a passport to cross...

The fastest distance between two points is a smooth line.

If you are skiing faster than everyone else no one can run into you, you can only run into them, therefore you are in control of the situation.

The info I have came through a member who describes his locker as a double, so maybe that explains the 100 number, but I don't know for sure. My info is second hand. I also know of families that...

Just heard there are only 45 Seven Summits Passes, and they are not a guaranteed next tram deal. They allow 35 people to cut the line each tram. If there are too many patrol, classes, etc ahead of...

Check out AI Trump talks about his E.D. on YouTube. The beauty is that if he publicly complains it will just cause milions of more people to see it.

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Did not see another person top to bottom.

I want to buy some skis from a Bend Mag but need to sell mine first. Anyone interested in some 186 Nordica 94s see my listing in Ski Swap. Perfect tools for Mt.Bach's recurring solid surface. I will...

Trying to figure out how to wax for skiing the trees with one inch of breakable ice crust and large frozen clumps falling from the trees.

I've always said that once you stop learning new tricks you are nothing but an old dog.

Say "OK," then get out her old ski boots and make her try and put them on herself. That may end it right there.

No, I have not skied the 130 LV dual pivot, so I have no right to critisize it. Probably skis fantastic, but the description sounds like a lot of new (and undoubtedly expensive) tech to solve...

The sink in the men's room is really high so drunks that don't want to wait in line won't piss in it.