Alpine touring skis
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Ahaha, You are too funny playing along with it. I totally thought you were serious.
Nice one.
I'm still gonna stab him. And you're too far away to get here in time.
Fortunately he'll be able to read his own cat scan.
I'll make him tell me where the non-vital organs are.
phone thumb is going though, that's non negotiable
whatever it is, it's gone son
even if it's the bluetooth on the awkwardly parked land rover
Like I give a fuck, I'm still settin it on fire
Haha, I have the UN spec in my Land Cruiser.
I had a base model Tacoma when I lived in Durango and Girdwood before downgrading to a backpack living off the money I sold the Tacoma for.
Then years later I realized I miss old Toyota trucks.
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so we're projecting
that hurts
I've had idiots offer me 18k for my shitty falling apart 2008 very much base model which is more than I paid for it. It's worse than bitcoin.
Maybe projecting? I don’t follow everything. But you just can’t call a Land Cruiser a Rover. Just can’t. Even if it’s an 100 series with IFS and shares lots of parts with a 4Runner, haha.
I know! My rusted to fuck land cruiser is now somehow worth a lot more than the 8500.- I paid for it.
I put a Recaro in the driver’s seat? Ok. Ok it is so far from comfortable.that thing is awesome
although I probably would miss my IFS and leather, honestly
hold on......looking for the smallest speck of dust to demonstrate how much I care about the trophy vehicle a doctor drives and parks like a weirdo in the middle of a midlife crisis.....
be right back
Ah, no i was trying to be funny while upholding the integrity of the Land Cruiser reputation and differentiate between a Land Rover. I have humor challenges and Toyota jokes.
The last thing I want to do if prove anything. I’m here for the fart jokes and sick DH content.
I also attempted to make the obscure joke that he has a 4Runner with a Land Cruiser body and IFS. Ie. Not a real Land Cruiser.
But is it really? Sounds like you're describing a Prado, no?
extra stabbinz
Sorry, the 100 is similar to a Tundra and Sequoia.
Not factually correct and is a total stretch but I figured we could all be against each other and be dicks about nothing. That’d be fun right.
You're funny.
Also funny...
For the record, I'd wager that you are indifferent.
He's in the hospital from getting run over by gweneth paltrow because he's hiking up ski areas.
For the record, I'd wager that you are indifferent.
I read on his stravas that his brakes didn't work and his bic biro workaround was suboptimal.
I have zero ideas on planks let alone braking systems on such things
I have zero ideas on planks let alone braking systems on such things
wait until he forgets his brake is locked up, takes his ski off, and watches it descend the mountain without him.
@Full Trucker didn't that happen to you once after we booted up something at Copper?
@Full Trucker didn't that happen to you once after we booted up something at Copper?
That is definitely not something that has never happened to me.
Though IIRC the brake was deployed, the snow was maybe too hard for the brake to get purchase? Something like that.
Though IIRC the brake was deployed, the snow was maybe too hard for the brake to get purchase? Something like that.
so i walked uphill
started out with my shell over this (and a gaiter over my head and ears like a true Euro goon) but got hot quickly
went up Mary Jane then partway up Whistlestop from the top.
the top part of Mary Jane was too steep for the friction afforded by my skins + my weight distributed over their surface area, even when making sure to keep them flat on the snow surface. was a bit unnerving to be in pin bindings and sliding a bit. ended up carrying my skis up 200' or so, this the section above the cat track over from the gondola, the true top part.
while other snow conditions + other skins may be different, these Pomocas + spring groomed snow was very quiet as far as the skin-snow interface. the skins didn't glide as well as I'd anticipated but on the other hand grip was just fine save for the one quite-steep pitch. all the stuff under the level of the cat track to MJ from the gondola was fine, for example.
video here for 'woo
i did have some equipment issues as Jm_ had sagely forecast. one of the Dynafit toe pieces released unexpectedly a few times (on that same steep last pitch!). with brakes retracted but skins oriented the right way the ski did not run away, though.
the other issue was that one of the Cast brake locking mechanisms was spazzy and didn't stay locked for more than a few minutes. I ended up wedging a Bic pen I had in my pack, and that worked well enough for ~10 min periods, where I'd have to reset its position.
I swung by Powder7 on the way back and they adjusted the little metal tabs on one of the Dynafit toes to hopefully cure that issue, and they replaced (with me paying their cost for the extra part) the brake lock in question. mildly annoying it's not a straight no-cost warranty issue but now I have extra brake locks in case I need 'em, and I also ordered some Voile straps to keep in my pack to tie them up more permanently should this replacement not work similarly.
started out with my shell over this (and a gaiter over my head and ears like a true Euro goon) but got hot quickly
went up Mary Jane then partway up Whistlestop from the top.
the top part of Mary Jane was too steep for the friction afforded by my skins + my weight distributed over their surface area, even when making sure to keep them flat on the snow surface. was a bit unnerving to be in pin bindings and sliding a bit. ended up carrying my skis up 200' or so, this the section above the cat track over from the gondola, the true top part.
while other snow conditions + other skins may be different, these Pomocas + spring groomed snow was very quiet as far as the skin-snow interface. the skins didn't glide as well as I'd anticipated but on the other hand grip was just fine save for the one quite-steep pitch. all the stuff under the level of the cat track to MJ from the gondola was fine, for example.
video here for 'woo
i did have some equipment issues as Jm_ had sagely forecast. one of the Dynafit toe pieces released unexpectedly a few times (on that same steep last pitch!). with brakes retracted but skins oriented the right way the ski did not run away, though.
the other issue was that one of the Cast brake locking mechanisms was spazzy and didn't stay locked for more than a few minutes. I ended up wedging a Bic pen I had in my pack, and that worked well enough for ~10 min periods, where I'd have to reset its position.
I swung by Powder7 on the way back and they adjusted the little metal tabs on one of the Dynafit toes to hopefully cure that issue, and they replaced (with me paying their cost for the extra part) the brake lock in question. mildly annoying it's not a straight no-cost warranty issue but now I have extra brake locks in case I need 'em, and I also ordered some Voile straps to keep in my pack to tie them up more permanently should this replacement not work similarly.
for this kind of in-bounds stuff do you even bother with skins? now that I read it, booted implies simply skis off and hiking?