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Hi, probably I hit a rock and now there is a crack/crevice on the edge in the middle of the board( not at the nose nor the tail). But arent edges supposed to be ductile, so that even if I hit a rock, the edge should protrude out instead of cracking? sth like this http://www.highland-instinct.co.uk/forum/file.php?1,file=1236,filename=Ski_damage_005.jpg,download=1
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So even for the Burton ION/driverx, SLx, Imperial sized US7 i could feel heel lift. How about the Salomon Synopse or the Deeluxe Vicious both sized US 6.5? and boots of both the brands salomon and burton could not be heat molded? and apart from Jimbocho are there big winter sports shop streets in the Tokyo area? or like big flea markets in which they sell last yr's stuff?
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For instance you get out of a cable car or a gondola, the snow in a blizzard melts on your relatively-warm outer lens and re-freezes instantaneously, leaving a layer of frozen ice crystals on it and blocks your vision. Another scenario would be on a chairlift. It is sleeting at the valley and the watery ice crystals deposit on to the outer lens. At the summit the temperature is below freezing and the sleet freezes and sticks firmly on the lens. What would you do in such occasion?
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Not sure where you get that idea from? As you can see on the following graph some dendrites can form at relatively mild temps close to freezing but the bulk of the dendrites that fall at Niseko are formed at temps between about -15 and -22 and a high supersaturation value. Under these conditions you often get the fernlike stellar dendrites forming and they are anything but wet! It's very light, flufffy and dry. So it is supersaturated wet winds yet dry fluffy powder
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I think tree monsters could be formed on all types of trees, so it makes no difference whether they are conifers or birches. http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/primer/primer.htm4 The water is said to be supercooled, meaning simply that it is cooled below the freezing point. As the clouds gets colder, however, the droplets do start to freeze. This begins happening around -10 C (14 F), but it's a gradual process and the droplets don't all freeze at once. It is usually below -10C at Niseko so the water droplets in the Siberian wind automatically freeze into dendri
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Even after the cold Siberian air passes through the Sea of Japan and gets saturated with water they barely rise above the freezing point(supersaturated)? Is that right as it seldom rains even on the low lying cities like Otaru and Kutchan. Am I right? Why dont the conifers in Niseko form tree monsters (juhyo) as big as those found in Zao? And why the snow found in Zao isnt as powdrous as those in Niseko? Because its warmer at Zao? Would strong winds inhibit the growth of fernlike crystals?? So based on such fact the snow found in western coast of Sakhalin island would be more or le
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I am gonna buy a fish or a cheetah for riding powder. Should I get stiff/responsive bindings, e.g. the Diode, or softer ones, e.g. the malavita, for them? Or sth in between like the Cartel? I enjoy more speed and stability, and I am somewhere between an intermediate and an advanced. and i need the EST bindings instead of the ReFlex ones, rite?
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Best googles for Niseko?
kusanagi replied to kusanagi's topic in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry
for instance which ones ar ethe best? -
Best googles for Niseko?
kusanagi replied to kusanagi's topic in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry
how bout daytime?