Oh, and I forgot to mention. The kid is going to Florida to spend a week with Grandpa. So it's full on, highspeed, no babysitting or instructing, adult snowboarding. I'll miss her, but we haven't this amount of time to ourselves to ride and enjoy Mammoth since she was born, so this is a pretty big deal. So yeah, super stoked.
I started with a jacket, but it got too damn hot so I switched to the TLD sweatshirt while still skiing. Funny, I always get compliments on the TLD when I’m skiing/riding - yesterday included.I like that you have different jackets for skiing and snow boarding. Styling as usual!
Glad no one was hurt in the tumble.
Very possibly, but I'll admit, I LOVE spring corn and slush. That's my hero snow, and this is probably my favorite time of the year to ride. We waited until about 10:30 to go out, so things could soften up, and rode until closing bell.
I’m scouring the inter webs for more reviews of the new burton bindings. I’d love it if someone could finally make step-in work right.
There were a ton of fresh sizeable releases all over the place, but these were probably the most impressive. The mountain only got like 3-4 inches the day before, so we were surprised to hear them bombing aggressively that morning, but they sure triggered a lot of slides.
I joined the herd and got some Burton Cartel bindings for a decent price. I guess I'll try them next year.
New boots (Ride Deadbolts) were the bomb!
I imagine my next post in this thread will have to do with surfing.
The photo was taken at the top of the Emigrant chair, looking east. The peak and slope to the left of my right arm as you are looking is KT22 - plenty of north facing slopes off that. Do the east facing ones in the morning, then the north facing in the afternoon. To the viewer's right of my left arm is North Bowl off the Headwall Lift. Same situation. Great east facing runs for the morning, then the North Bowl and even Palisades (if you are crazy confident) in the afternoon. 20 feet of snow up there, so it will last a while.
All but Strata. I'm currently running 4 boards and have 2 Atlas, 1 Falcor, and 1 Force. I really don't feel a lot of difference between the Atlas, Falcor, and previous incarnations of the T.Rice bindings. I just got the Force, and rode them for the first time this week. I rode them quite a few years ago, but once I got on canted footbeds I loved them, and wanted to have them on all my bindings as switching to a non-canted bed made me feel like I needed to adjust my stance width, and I wanted to maintain continuity. Union is putting canting on the Force for next year for the first time (as well as a couple others that didn't previously have it), and they did a limited late release of the Team colorway a couple months ago, so I grabbed some. I like them, but I guess I've gotten used to the relative stiffness of the other bindings, so the Force didn't do it for me like the others. Atlas is really about as good as it gets for me for a do it all binding.
Silly newb question - I assume the canting is inward towards the center of the board and not outward, right?
Yep, towards the center. For me it allows me to take a wider (and thus more stable) stance without putting undue pressure on my knees. You're exactly correct about how autocant works, and I think it legitimately works like they describe. I couldn't tell any difference between that and the actual angled canting of my Unions which I think is in that 2-2.5 range as well.
Played around with it that way, then put proper side fins on it. Frankly, I didn't notice much difference, but I'm not a very good surfer.
Where are your ski boots?
Blasphemy! I think the last time I had on ski boots was in Jackson Hole somewhere around Y2K.