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I'm still entertained by DNAspin . My high score on the triple hit level (the best one...) is 93560. Yeah!

Quote: Originally posted by d=(^o^)=b: QUOTE]I am lazy and I actually forget to drink. Some days I may have 500ml [/QB] db's, watch yourself, bro. don't know about your liver, but you'll get fattie kidneystones which you'll have to pass through your urethra if you constantly dehydrate yourself. For the 2 guys I know that'd have had them, sounds like the most painful experience possible.

[/qb] I started learning how to board purely cause none of the peeps i ski with push me to get better....so started getting bored. Am looking forward some ski Park'n Pipe & Freestyle couses for this season tho! yay! [/QB] This is why i started telemarking. Great fun, now that I have the general hang of it.

sounds like tsugaike is the place... I'll try to convince my crew thats the place to go. cya all manana!

nice, twins, nice. besides givin' me a bit of a headache from the shakin' (or is it just jealousy?), those are some sweet vids. Good thing you're short so you get face shots all the time. lucky bastard...

tele-ers come out of the woodwork, eh? i imagine i'm gonna ditch my current tele skis (10 year-old skinny bump skis 185) for some new ones this year, and I don't know about length. i ski a 190 alpine, so should tele skis be shorter or longer? i've heard longer because of the longer effective edge, but... I've noticed difficult controlling my skis sometimes with my flexy boots (garmont 3 buckle veloce's), esp. when i'm used to skiin' alpine. One more Q: when i skiied alta, i saw most tele-ers on alpine skis. what do you guys prefer, less weight of a true tele ski, or the pre

yo, where are the big files, toquie-toque? and the vids? do i have to wait all the way til this weekend?!? hope theres snow...

Quote: Originally posted by low pressure lover: i guess the problem with surfing is that its a lot more accessible, & it only takes 20 bods to make a break feel crowded. I think it probably takes even fewer numbers of skiers to make a stash feel crowded... I mean, there is a difference between skiing completely untracked pow for at least 10 meters on either side of you and having to cross even one track in your line, ya know? I've skied micro-stashes that I alone have skied up in part of a day before... Maybe I'm just getting ultra-picky. Japan lets you do that, with all it

hahaha, that's sooooooooooooo, funny, kanjin accident. don't you read my signature?!?

I think this should turn into a little Hakuba roll-call. Correct my memory if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember the following people heading up there this weekend: Mr. Sparkle Nekobi Danz ...d...b... (whatever) fattwins toque crazyski add your name to the list, yo!

Well done, thunder. Sometimes we life-long riders forget what riding pow was first like (especially back when skinny skis were the norm...). I remember when it finally clicked, and I would spend the whole day looking for untracked stashes, even if they were days old and the snow was bulletproof...I guess I haven't changed that much.

Yup, a lot of rippers there: POWDER's February cover boy, Jamie Pierre (from my hometown, Minnetonka, Minnesota), the Collins Bros. (Matt and Chris), Gordy Peifer, Sage Cattabriga, filmmaker Chris Ostness, photographer Lee Cohen, among many others... There's sweet hiking ops, traverses are often long and hairy, and not a monkey in sight...

chastising toque was not sarcastic. bad, bad boy, really. for the record (i guess this is all on record, eh?), i respect fattwins history and rep here in Japan. ducking ropes in alta is bad. never did it, and almost nobody else, including some of the best skiiers i've seen, did it either. hopefully luck and karma will be with me this year with patrol. powder to the people.

Quote: Originally posted by Fattwins: Japanese people are lemmings they will just follow you. imagine 5 people jumping off of the chairs the chair line will unwieght spring up and derail. I too have looked at lines and wanted to jump off but I do care if others follow. Lastly sounding like a papa, you like this resort right? now that there is a big hole and gaijins caught in the trees what do you think will happen next time you go? 2 things about this. The "Japanese people are like lemmings" thing is a perfect reason to keep these resort names a quasi-secret. I've had two resorts i

Quote: Originally posted by barok: I realized something about powder the other day. You are actually floating when on it, it is not just an expression. Most snow is 90% air. As a guess, virgin powder has got to be like 92-93% air. He's right. Check this out: I wonder what these stats are for Japan snow? BTW, 2.54cm/in, C=(F-32)*5/9

Yup, there's still 3 in the states: Alta, Utah, Mad River Glenn, Vermont, and Taos, New Mexico. Aspen Mountain, Colorado was until a few years ago... If I haven't mentioned it before, Alta rocks.

Kling, they are special, very special. In general, they are lighter, less stiff, more comfortable, and have a big toepiece that fit in the front binding. They also flex above the instep so you can freely drop you knee. They are so much more comfortable than alpine boots, quite a few people at hardcore ski towns wear them much of the time, even when they're not skiing.

you better be there, db and danz, touque and co. will be, too...

oufree, fatty, i'll be skiin' somewhere in gifu tommorrow, its up to toque. i think its only a one day weekend, though... if you're in gifu tommorrow, gimme a pm.

ah, ALT blues, eh Nekobi?!? I'm almost positive I never do more than 4 hours a work a day, and its usually less than that... Ah, Japanese bureaucracy...

me and toque are in gifu this weekend, hakuba next weekend. we should have a little SJ gettogether, eh?

i just got mine in hokkaido last month. the most important part is the footbeds (inserts, whatever...), the liners are less important. Basically, if your footbeds are molded to your feet, every little muscle contraction in your foot can be transferred to the ski/edge, and you have much more control. Molded liners are nice, too, but liners are much less rigid than foodbeds, and therefore do not transfer energy as efficiently. This is why tight-fitting boots are so key...so every thought of movement can be transformed into rippin'.

CRYTONOMICON is beyond excellent. one of the most entertaining, complex reads I've had in awhile. I bonded with a guy in Niseko over it... Books are powerful, no? It's Mike Moore recently, though... (silly bush)

hey, toque-boy, where's your weight on those drops, eh? i'm just jealous i wasn't there...

no i've got kero problems, too, and the during the coldest stretch of weather since i arrived here. 3 days ago my heater wouldn't start up. my supervisors buy me a new one, and that one seems to have the same problem. it warms itself up, then when it tried to spark a flame...nothing. At least my heaters are electric and are smart enough to tell me something's wrong (unlike toque's, it sounds like). " title="" src="graemlins/cry.gif" />