Alpine touring skis
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So going to try the Kingpins. What just blows my mind though is that the Kingpin rear half is designed totally different than the Duke of course, like if these were combined you'd actually have something, rear of the KP and front of the Duke or something.
They are like a freaking singularity for snow with a gravitational field that can't be overcome. Sometimes you can beat the snow out...sometimes you forget and get a cold hand reminder.put them on your poles or shake them out
Army surplus mittens are pretty fucking awesome, however dogs love to chew them with the leather and what I guess to be rat fur.
Is that a snot scratcher on the back?
My nose is pre-emptively itching now just looking at that, because that looks like some good scratchin. I wouldn't wear them in snow because ice dingleberries but for just around the house on a coke bender those look rad
Those were my go to gloves when I was broke as hell and skied Whiteface when temps hit -20. When it is -20 ice dingleberries aren't an issue because anything approaching a liquid is just a fond memory.
But whiteface = humidity?
I just want to scratch my nose with them. Those look like the best gloves ever. Imma sand my nose off.
Because no look bindings already.
Yeah, but at least like the brake lock mechanism on the KP, its so different and that little hook on the Duke barely catches in the best of situations, I took the brakes off and put them in a clamp to test and whether on the skis or off, the little hook either doesnt catch, or just barely does, which doesnt work on the snow IME.
Kidwoo needs special long gauntlet gloves for his own reasons.
By the way, I hope the IT folks here appreciate finding cattle artificial insemination in my work computer search history.
By the way, I hope the IT folks here appreciate finding cattle artificial insemination in my work computer search history.
is that what all that white stuff was for 6 months straight?
I'll have to trust you because I couldn't see shit (like in your photo)
Kingpins were much better. No issues. I think the high riser may not be quite 14 degrees, but it's good enough and foolproof, not like the flippy lever on the Duke. Changed skis after touring for 4 hours and used one of my free passes for a few laps.
Yeah, but how long does that last
Inbounds "corn" is just slush. No comparison to the real thing.and natural corn is still better than ski area corn that has to recover from being hardpack and bumps
Hey toshi, the avalanche center says it's all good. If you can kick off a wet slide in the gore range and not die, it's all good everywhere!!
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there was a wet slide inbounds at Loveland in Super Bowl last weekend. 3 turns leading into, probably ran 100 feet, tracks exiting.
A little too early today for the real corn, but there was still some nice skiing to be had. Had to jump turn on the first slopes, but once I realized that, it was pretty fun. Heading down into the valley was pretty good, hard, but not punishing/sliding.
Ground facets. When it gets warm the whole slope will go.
Ground facets. When it gets warm the whole slope will go.
should have gone with a redbull spAnsership?
There are a few people around here that haphazardly ski over glaciers. They are easy to avoid, 99% of the places that we BC ski are not glaciated...but if you go back further or high enough you eventually run into them. Coastal ranges usually have a heavy glacier field/ice field near the coast.
Someone died a few days ago under confusing circumstances. The PoPo said they died in a tree-well on a trail that doesn't really have any trees, not to mention the entire region where they died doesn't have many trees and the place where the rescue was performed was miles from the reported location. From first-hand accounts someone went over a convexity, disappeared, was found a few min later and appeared to have fallen into some kind of hole, but not a tree-well. Possibly hit their head on a rock down there or just fell way down. There are a few crazy holes out there that might be showing up with hollowed-out veg or some rock-hole. We generally don't have the tree-well problem nearly as bad as other places, but this place in particular doesn't really have trees and we are also dealing with the melting of a very deep snowpack. In some places real deep, in some places shallow. I uncovered rocks at 65cm in the pit I dug yesterday.
Because of this thread, I no longer take my skins out of my pack after a ski or worry bout hanging them up in the garage… I just leave them in the pack with the glue stuck to itself and you know what? So far they dry just fine.
Jealous. We had an ambitious tour planned and turned around because of weather. Honestly, we could have continued and it would have been safe and not even all that miserable. But, the sun wasn’t gonna come out so there wasn’t gonna be corn so the skiing was gonna suck. But sometimes you don’t know if you don’t go, and the forecast has called for very different conditions.
