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  1. #476
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    Quote Originally Posted by ill-advised strategy View Post
    In 1997, while I was being hardcore skiing 206 Atomics in a hat, there was one guy skiing 180-185ish fat skis (whatever Rossi made in that Powder Plus era) in a helmet every day. We made so much fun of that guy...everybody rolled their eyes at the mention of his nickname...etc.

    I think there’s a strong, strong likelihood I could have avoided several concussions and an acl tear if I had watched and learned instead of trying to be mas macho.

    Years of hiking with a pack and running saw and building fireline while compensating for that bad knee did weird things to my back. My messed up back ended my career. My dozen-concussion mushbrain depression plus a decade of trying to sort out a second career and get my shit back together mean life is often near-unbearable.

    So yeah, sometimes I also think how different things could have turned out with some different gear.
    Well, your mushbrain prose and musings never fail to bring a smile.
    Or at least, an ironic smirk.

    :P

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    Why arent Releasable poles straps the standard?

    Hmmm. Like any quality thread, reading this one has created some moments of self reflection for me. I’m discovering I have strong feelings on straps in general.

    I have identified that am:
    - Aggressively anti pole strap
    - Solidly pro outside of helmet goggle strap
    - Anti Voile strap if you have bindings that click together
    - Quite pro using strapping as a sling to carry skis on your back during boot packs
    - Extremely anti any other kind of ski carrying straps
    - Out of habit, anti powder ski straps. But I’m willing to listen.
    - Very pro roof cargo straps


    Who knew? Very helpful thread.

  3. #478
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    Quote Originally Posted by EWG View Post
    Hmmm. Like any quality thread, reading this one has created some moments of self reflection for me. I’m discovering I have strong feelings on straps in general.

    I have identified that am:
    - Aggressively anti pole strap
    - Solidly pro outside of helmet goggle strap
    - Anti Voile strap if you have bindings that click together
    - Quite pro using strapping as a sling to carry skis on your back during boot packs
    - Extremely anti any other kind of ski carrying straps
    - Out of habit, anti powder ski straps. But I’m willing to listen.
    - Very pro roof cargo straps


    Who knew? Very helpful thread.
    yeah but how do you feel about double pole plants?
    swing your fucking sword.

  4. #479
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    We had a TR all about double pole planting several years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TBS View Post
    That patch is far too inaccurate. It needs at least a half dozen visible tattoos on that silhouette to be true to life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kopi_Red View Post
    That patch is far too inaccurate. It needs at least a half dozen visible tattoos on that silhouette to be true to life.
    And a poorly healed C-section scar.


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  7. #482
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    ^^^^^^^Too difficult to express daddy issues through the medium of embroidery; sometimes it's what's not said that makes a statement.

    Quote Originally Posted by EWG View Post
    Hmmm. Like any quality thread, reading this one has created some moments of self reflection for me. I’m discovering I have strong feelings on straps in general.

    I have identified that am:
    - Aggressively anti pole strap
    - Solidly pro outside of helmet goggle strap
    - Anti Voile strap if you have bindings that click together
    - Quite pro using strapping as a sling to carry skis on your back during boot packs
    - Extremely anti any other kind of ski carrying straps
    - Out of habit, anti powder ski straps. But I’m willing to listen.
    - Very pro roof cargo straps


    Who knew? Very helpful thread.
    I've recognized my own ambivalence thanks to this thread. I use straps. I appreciate them for what they do, don't scorn them for the potential for disaster. A pole strap is a fickle mistress. But if you want to run your shaft bareback, more power to you.

    But any dummy that puts a hat or a goggle strap under a helmet, or anything more than a liner, might as well just throw the damn thing in the woods. If it doesn't fit properly it doesn't do you any good.

  8. #483
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    My favorite part about releasable pole straps, I can just leave the straps at home w/o cutting them off.

    goggle straps on outside for me.

    My helmet was purchased in 1997, purchased at wave rave in mammoth after I hit my head kinda hard on a powder day (skinny skis- 204’s).

    I just discovered foam glue, and the helmet is almost like new! Along with three sets of goggles (used by the kids- all straps on outside).

    Has anybody intentionally done that worm turned posted in a vid up thread? I tried a few times this weekend. Too much friction (TWSS) and not enough momentum. I always came to a halt while on my back.

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    Stock is getting low....

  10. #485
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    If OP is going to be our resident pole expert and strap mentor he should learn to pronounce Leki correctly.

  11. #486
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    Now that we seem to be reaching the end of the poles, we need a poll. HOF material or not?

    I say yes. But I acknowledge it's close.

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    From yesterday in SoVT
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    crab in my shoe mouth

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    I don’t see any Sugarloaf stickers. Maybe it’s on the back.

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    Why arent Releasable poles straps the standard?

    Quote Originally Posted by bennymac View Post
    I don’t see any Sugarloaf stickers. Maybe it’s on the back.
    Ya know. That was my exact thought. I’ll change that on Thursday or Friday and then buttah can take another shot of it next week.


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    Thank you for your service.

  16. #491
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    So nobody’s going to ski the upside down death chute and film it?

    I am disappoint.
    focus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mustonen View Post
    So nobody’s going to ski the upside down death chute and film it?

    I am disappoint.
    This.

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    Just waiting on the hundos...

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    Quote Originally Posted by SoVT Joey View Post
    Ya know. That was my exact thought. I’ll change that on Thursday or Friday and then buttah can take another shot of it next week.

    The gay married weed growing gun owners have me confused. And delighted.
    . . .

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    Why arent Releasable poles straps the standard?

    Quote Originally Posted by Core Shot View Post
    The gay married weed growing gun owners have me confused. And delighted.
    Libertarian. There’s a book. “Libertarian Mind”. I’d highly recommend it before the next election cycle.

    Anyway. Enough digression.

    I took straps off poles today. And then put them back on.

  21. #496
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    Well, I was confused because of mass media.

    I was delighted, because, well Libertarianism.

    Get the government off my back and out of my bedroom.

    But I’m not sure I can read that book. It’s from the Cato Institute.

    But then I saw this:

    A revised, updated, and retitled edition of David Boaz’s classic book Libertarianism: A Primer, which was praised as uniting “history, philosophy, economics and law—spiced with just the right anecdotes—to bring alive a vital tradition of American political thought that deserves to be honored today” (Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago)
    Epstein spit on me. Well, to be fair, he spit on everyone in the first few rows.
    As he worked himself into a free market frenzy, you could see the spittle forming in the corners of his mouth, until it would reach the middle, at which point implosives would erupt in a shower of spittle, completely distracting from his otherwise cogent and persuasive thoughts.

    Bill Landes never spit on me. And he wore much nicer suits. Friedman also. Super smart. No spit.
    . . .

  22. #497
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    The mounting prevalence of diurnal vampire bears in the Transylvanian Alps notwithstanding, this is clear evidence of the necessity of pole straps for appropriate safety in an alpine environment:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/video/watch-...n-103258181710

    Skier displays his dominance by showing his pole straps, the bear backs away.
    Skier drops the straps, the bear viciously attacks.

    #StraponsSaveLives

  23. #498
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    Showing dominance via pole straps. I have learned something from the animal kingdom that is tgr.

    It sounds slightly kinky when spoken out lout.
    It's a war of the mind and we're armed to the teeth.

  24. #499
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    Quote Originally Posted by subtle plague View Post
    Showing dominance via pole straps. I have learned something from the animal kingdom that is tgr.

    It sounds slightly kinky when spoken out lout.
    Well I’m hard


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  25. #500
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    Quote Originally Posted by AK47bp View Post
    Used my new releasable straps today.

    I liked the easy on/off with the flick of the thumb (that’s what she said)

    When I went to skate and transitioned my palms over top of the pole for leverage I would press on the strap release trigger and be in a strapless situation. Scary.

    The wrist strap thingy I just left on my gloves which was kind of annoying. Maybe I get some of those Leki gloves with the loops sewn in.

    I signed up for a 3 day intensive pole strap class to hopefully up my pole game.

    I’ll be up all night pondering the day’s events.


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    This gets me too. I like my super old Lexi quick release because they don’t do that. The new ones are kind of annoying

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