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Fixed the core shot last night and today. Epoxy layer to seal and bond the base.  A boat load of Ptex  Scrapped, waxed, buffed and ready to go 
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Maaaan that last wind event left the top of the mountain looking rough. We badly need this next storm.
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Dec 28, 2020 00:50
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spwrozek posted:Fixed the core shot last night and today. Looking good
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Dec 28, 2020 01:10
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spwrozek posted:^pretty much 2020 is indeed weird as poo poo I heard Bruce Tremper talk recently and he said there’s recent Swiss research showing the concave/convex thing (which he put in his books for years) is basically bunk and slope angle is all that matters. If anything concavities just mean a place for debris to build up was his take. I don’t have enough experience to doubt your own read of your terrain, but that was definitely interesting for me to hear after having the dangers of convexities emphasized so often.
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Dec 28, 2020 01:49
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Convexities are important because they indicate where the slope angle increases. Also you're more likely to find a trigger point as the terrain rolls over because that's typically an area of high tension on the slab.
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Dec 28, 2020 01:51
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I wish I could find the research paper he was referencing. The first of your points I think is a given but it seemed like it was the second one he was disputing. But without the paper or a better recall of what he said I’ll leave it there, don’t want to mischaracterize his point or inadvertently introduce any bad info here.
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Dec 28, 2020 02:10
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I'd love for convexities to be safer, they seem like a lot of fun. But intuitively, with the larger amount of unsupported steep snow that can shear, it seems a lot more dangerous. Would also love to read that research, because it's very easy to mischaracterise or misinterpret results
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Dec 28, 2020 02:19
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ought ten posted:I heard Bruce Tremper talk recently and he said there’s recent Swiss research showing the concave/convex thing (which he put in his books for years) is basically bunk and slope angle is all that matters. If anything concavities just mean a place for debris to build up was his take. I don’t have enough experience to doubt your own read of your terrain, but that was definitely interesting for me to hear after having the dangers of convexities emphasized so often. If you find it post it up. Very interested. To the specific location really no danger at all. mostly the roll is a good spot to test for similar slopes as it is super tiny.
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Dec 28, 2020 04:56
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Another baby backcountry question for our resident splitboarders: do you rig up any sort of quick release for your bindings? One of the things they mentioned in my AST course as well as in the book is that telemarkers and splitboarders are at a higher risk because their gear is designed not to release like a ski binding.
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Dec 28, 2020 06:12
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I'm not really going to be doing any gnar when I'm in ski mode, because I am trash at skiing
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Dec 28, 2020 07:09
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WHERE MY HAT IS AT posted:Another baby backcountry question for our resident splitboarders: do you rig up any sort of quick release for your bindings? One of the things they mentioned in my AST course as well as in the book is that telemarkers and splitboarders are at a higher risk because their gear is designed not to release like a ski binding. One of my good friends was caught in a slide a few years ago. He was barely even able to pull the trigger on his air bag (he described it as falling down the stairs and trying to pull it). So with that kind of context i can't see how you would ever be able to reach down and pull done sort of quick release on your bindings. It is just a risk you have to live with.
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Dec 28, 2020 07:17
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IncredibleIgloo posted:I have been checking their app and it doesn't look too bad. I think if you have a pass or account you can download their app and look at lift line times. That being said the app is really buggy and crashes a lot, and they seemed to have removed a lot of the cameras that look at lift lines. I am planning a trip to Beaver Creek myself, and have been checking, and it doesn't look so bad. Partial Octopus posted:They lines are ok during the week. I wouldn't go on the weekend. I think the main issue is that we still don't have any snow and half of the trails are closed so everyone is kind of clumped together. Oh duh, forgot I could check the app even though I'm not there  . BC lines didn't look too bad, at least on the app! Heck, even Vail seemed almost manageable apart from the main gondolas?
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Dec 28, 2020 14:42
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Did a few laps of skating today, in moist, heavy new snow. What is a good word to describe it in English? We say the snow is "kram" in Norwegian. It's the type of snow where you get the best snowballs. A bit too kram even, you could hurt somebody today with a big snowball of dense, high moisture snow. Some slushy bits made for tricky skiing with poor technique. If my weight is too far back the ski will want to rotate inwards from a V into a snow plow. A hard base with a soft cover hides this flaw because then the ski wants to track straight. But the slippery surface forced me to push more accurately. I guess hero snow works in XC as well. Uphill in slush was interesting. Kick too hard and the snow gave way, which also caused a bigger ridge for my tip to subsequently catch. Kick just right and evenly, and the skis actually glide pretty well because the slushy snow forms a level step, you don't have to glide edge only. Some pole baskets the size of dinner plates would be helpful though.
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Dec 28, 2020 14:58
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Residency Evil posted:Oh duh, forgot I could check the app even though I'm not there I hit up Keystone yesterday and it wasn't as bad as it has been earlier this year. So I think with this storm coming tomorrow things should be getting better hopefully.
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Dec 28, 2020 15:50
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Is it worth calling in sick tomorrow for potential 6-12 inches at Vail?
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Partial Octopus posted:Is it worth calling in sick tomorrow for potential 6-12 inches at Vail? Maybe but it is holiday week so I would wait until more terrain is open and less people will have the same idea and maybe already be off. It snowed a little bit this morning but I would be worried about the wind direction and how much it will actually snow and when.
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Dec 28, 2020 17:56
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Ola posted:Did a few laps of skating today, in moist, heavy new snow. What is a good word to describe it in English? We say the snow is "kram" in Norwegian. It's the type of snow where you get the best snowballs. A bit too kram even, you could hurt somebody today with a big snowball of dense, high moisture snow. Heavy and wet but also tends to come in large quantities, great at sticking to and covering jagged rocks
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Dec 28, 2020 18:15
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Ola posted:Did a few laps of skating today, in moist, heavy new snow. What is a good word to describe it in English? We say the snow is "kram" in Norwegian. It's the type of snow where you get the best snowballs. A bit too kram even, you could hurt somebody today with a big snowball of dense, high moisture snow. We call it elephant snot or cementimeters I went cross country skiing for the first time in probably 20 years yesterday, certainly the first time as an adult. I fell on my rear end three times, but eventually got the hang of it. I ruined some tracks with my fat rear end though.
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Dec 28, 2020 19:07
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drat it. Never Summer went CRCRC with the "Triple Camber" Proto FR. So now we have (capitalized to reflect relative amounts of rocker and camber: Rocker Camber cRc Ripsaw Camber CRC Fusion Camber CRc Shockwave Camber CrC Traditional Camber (Hammer only) C "Triple Camber" cRcRc I feel like they could simplify it to fusion, shockwave and traditional. edit: gently caress it. I know I'm going to end up buying one for the novelty. :/ If they reduce the rocker enough the "triple camber" just becomes a modern lifted camber variant. Yuns fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Dec 28, 2020 |
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Dec 28, 2020 19:45
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Go home Never Summer you’re drunk.
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spwrozek posted:If you find it post it up. Very interested. Emailed Tremper and got the paper. It’s from 2013, older than I thought. They analyzed slope angle, curvature and roughness of 142 human-triggered avalanche starting zones. What Tremper was pointing out in the talk I heard is basically captured in Fig. 5, which shows many more avalanches occurring from flat or concave starting points than convex. But, as the authors point out, these are data from human-triggered avalanches, so this might be colored by where people are going. https://arc.lib.montana.edu/snow-science/objects/ISSW13_paper_O5-05.pdf And then finally, which goes to your point and others’, Tremper in his email wrote: quote:Yes, slope shape is very important for other reasons, such as consequences, how to travel in that terrain and the predictability of where the crown fracture of the slab will occur.
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Dec 28, 2020 20:57
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ought ten posted:Emailed Tremper and got the paper. It’s from 2013, older than I thought. They analyzed slope angle, curvature and roughness of 142 human-triggered avalanche starting zones. What Tremper was pointing out in the talk I heard is basically captured in Fig. 5, which shows many more avalanches occurring from flat or concave starting points than convex. But, as the authors point out, these are data from human-triggered avalanches, so this might be colored by where people are going. Awesome. Thank dude. I feel like most avalanche stuff, I don't really know anything and avoidance is the best course of action.
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Dec 28, 2020 21:10
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spwrozek posted:Awesome. Thank dude. Very much me too.
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Ola posted:Did a few laps of skating today, in moist, heavy new snow. What is a good word to describe it in English? We say the snow is "kram" in Norwegian. It's the type of snow where you get the best snowballs. A bit too kram even, you could hurt somebody today with a big snowball of dense, high moisture snow. I've got two days in so far, but we've only had skateable conditions for the past three. Conditions went from awful to actually pretty good literally overnight. Went out after dark while it was snowing last night, which makes descending the unlit trails with a headlamp very exciting. I'm signed up for a marathon in a month so I'm going to be pretty hosed with only four weeks of on-snow prep. The event looks like it's going to be an unsupported 42k loop instead of point-to-point, pretty much just mask on, hop out of your car, get on course, mask off, suffer, mask on, get in your car, go home. Then we're packing up and heading to Utah to work double-remote for a month, with a plan of getting some serious backcountry laps in. We'll see how it goes!
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Spime Wrangler posted:I've got two days in so far, but we've only had skateable conditions for the past three. Conditions went from awful to actually pretty good literally overnight. Went out after dark while it was snowing last night, which makes descending the unlit trails with a headlamp very exciting. If you head through CO...lets take some BC laps.
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Yuns posted:drat it. Never Summer went CRCRC with the "Triple Camber" Proto FR. So it’s the opposite of flying v, which imo is just exaggerated rocker. How’s it supposed to ride?
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Macnult posted:So it’s the opposite of flying v, which imo is just exaggerated rocker. How’s it supposed to ride?
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spwrozek posted:If you head through CO...lets take some BC laps. That’s the route! Let’s do it.
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Dec 29, 2020 03:18
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CJW6vLKMlxr/?igshid=i59fltwa91bj Nice to see a happy ending on this one. Stay safe out there goons. Hard to see with the low res insta pictures but looks like they may have triggered it riding over that convexity by the trees? Or it may have just been shallower in that spot, the avalanche forecast says there's a couple weak layers 50-120cm deep in the area. Edit: more details in the forecast report. It was a snowmobiler that triggered it, 60cm down: quote:A large (size 2.5) avalanche was triggered on Monday by a snowmobiler on Rainbow mountain in alpine terrain, which resulted in a full burial and, thankfully, a successful rescue. The avalanche failed on a layer 60 cm deep. At this time the nature of the failure plane is unknown, but it is reasonable to assume it failed on one of the two weak layers discussed in the snowpack section. This avalanche points to the ongoing potential to trigger persistent weak layers in the snowpack. WHERE MY HAT IS AT fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Dec 29, 2020 |
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WHERE MY HAT IS AT posted:https://www.instagram.com/p/CJW6vLKMlxr/?igshid=i59fltwa91bj One of my biggest takeaways from the IG post: Conditions today were moderate, it is so important to make your own observations just because the forecast says it may be stable, you never really know. I have seen this a lot lately. People need to go back and read what Moderate actually means (it doesn't mean it is stable).
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Dec 29, 2020 06:04
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Of course it's a sledder.
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I interpreted the IG post to say they were filming a sled accessed jump. Could have been a member of the film crew and not some slednecks.
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spwrozek posted:One of my biggest takeaways from the IG post: Conditions today were moderate, it is so important to make your own observations just because the forecast says it may be stable, you never really know. Yeah, we can look at what the forecast said for that day as well: Avalanche Problem 1: Storm Slab posted:On Monday, storm slabs will likely remain most reactive in wind loaded lees such as below ridge crests and roll overs. New snow may become increasingly sensitive to triggering when touched by the sun for the first time. Watch for loose dry point releases in steep south facing terrain. Avalanche Problem 2: Persistent Slab posted:A couple problematic layers may be found around 50 to 120 cm deep, including weak layers of surface hoar and faceted grains above a hard melt-freeze crust. There remains potential for storm slab avalanches to step down to these layers, resulting in large and destructive avalanches. Looking at the pictures again, it looks like it kicked off above the trees just below that top ridge on a roll over. Hard to tell if that slope is wind loaded but the forecast was definitely not calling conditions "stable". highme posted:I interpreted the IG post to say they were filming a sled accessed jump. Could have been a member of the film crew and not some slednecks. "another crew" suggests there were a couple groups out there filming. The other people Sean mentions are pro athletes as well.
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Hit up Vail today. Conditions were pretty fantastic besides the low visibility. First time I got to ride my Capita Black Snowboard of Death in any kind of powder. I can't get over how good this board feels. It's by far the best board I've ever ridden. I've never had so much confidence on a snowboard before. It's super playful in powder and very aggressive on groomers. The base is the fastest base I've come across on a board before. It's also incredibly stable and catch free. The carves feel super locked in and their "death grip" edge worked incredibly well on ice. I can't recommend it enough. Definitely demo one if you get the chance, or just buy one.
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Rolling in here with another newbie question: how often should I wax my snowboard? Is it based on hours ridden or just straight time (or some combo)? The things I've read about it seem to talk in terms of snowboarding trips, but since I'm new, my actual time on the snow has been sporadic. I'm guessing err on the side of caution and just do it every few trips, regardless of time on the slopes? It's an extruded base if that matters. Btw thanks to everyone for my gear assembly questions - finally took a lesson Christmas morning (fantastic time to go and learn - great powder with active snowfall at Meadows and it wasn't crowded at all; main lot was only about 3\4 full when I left a little after noon) and things are starting to click. Feels so great when I nail a turn!
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marjorie posted:Rolling in here with another newbie question: how often should I wax my snowboard? Is it based on hours ridden or just straight time (or some combo)? The things I've read about it seem to talk in terms of snowboarding trips, but since I'm new, my actual time on the snow has been sporadic. I'm guessing err on the side of caution and just do it every few trips, regardless of time on the slopes? It's an extruded base if that matters. If it starts to feel slow, wax it. Also you can generally tell by looking at a base. If it starts to look faded and the colors aren't very vibrant, it needs wax. Some bases are thirstier than others.
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Partial Octopus posted:If it starts to feel slow, wax it. Also you can generally tell by looking at a base. If it starts to look faded and the colors aren't very vibrant, it needs wax. Some bases are thirstier than others. Perfect, thanks!
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marjorie posted:Rolling in here with another newbie question: how often should I wax my snowboard? Is it based on hours ridden or just straight time (or some combo)? The things I've read about it seem to talk in terms of snowboarding trips, but since I'm new, my actual time on the snow has been sporadic. I'm guessing err on the side of caution and just do it every few trips, regardless of time on the slopes? It's an extruded base if that matters. Extruded bases lose wax faster than sintered, but in all honesty you won't notice much of a difference if you're only waxing 1 or 2 times during the actual cold part of the winter here. Once spring rolls around and things get slushy you'll definitely notice the difference and want to wax more often with temp specific wax.
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I have a pair of skis that I haven't waxed in like 3 years and I'm still a faster rider than you so I don't think it's very important. Real answer is that unless you're racing, once at the beginning of the season and once in the middle is plenty.
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Bought a pair of K2 Darkos and took them to Roundtop today. Textbook ice coast conditions and the lines were a bit crowded, so I spent most of the day hiking features. My last pair of boots were DC Mutinys. They fit me fine for a awhile but were just a little too soft, and I feel like my foot has shrunk (legitimately, like not a “i got boots too large and didn’t feel it till they broke in” situation). I’m happy with them. I prefer laces over boas but this is a great middle ground with just a bottom boa to lock your ankle back into the boot. I probably would’ve gone with Enders over the Darkos if I lived closer to mountains where hard charging laps could be made into an all day event. Also, on the topic of gear, my girlfriend’s Black Pearl 88s finally arrived in the mail today. She has no idea I got her skis, she’s currently in the shower, and they’re sitting in front of the door for when she walks out 
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