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It felt more like being strapped to the hood of the car than being in the backseat 180ish Legend pros w/ Naxo01s, which is (and I can't emphasize this enough) BY FAR the best setup I've ever used on piste or off. I was practically the only one rocking the lift-accessed 37 run at ALTS all day right after a 60cm dump with em. The next day, when I decided to skin up to part of a mountain that I'd been thinking about for a while. It turned out to be a bit less challenging and interesting than it looked, but I could barely even manage it. The thoughts I had were: 1) maybe the LP

Same alpine boots. Each trek was about 3 1/2 hours up about a 10-17 gradient and down a 35. I was a little tired, but was well-hydrated, took a nice long rest, even stretched, before heading down. Wasn't even hung over. Glad I'm not the only one CB

Congrats, btw.

Sorry, didn't mean to call you out on your math skills or anything, honest, was just pure curiosity. I'm finding out cultural differences abound in medical thinking more than anywhere else I've ever noticed it before. So HK count is like Japan then.

Thanks for the info. Your second to last comment reminded me of an article I came across last year in Japanese about glide cracks. If memory serves, it was saying that glide cracks were the result of slow movement and didn't make catastrophic failure any more or less likely to happen. I think they were saying that it had something to do with sasa bamboo ground cover.

I've recently started skinning up instead of hiking and I noticed that after skinning for several hours, I have trouble changing gears into downhill mode and end up skiing down like I'm a total beginner and just barely on this side of being in control. Anyone else ever experience this? Does it ever get easier to transition? Or am I just skinning for too long or at too great an angle?

Good article. Pretty poor analogy though. The small light crumbs in my cereal sink to the bottom, sure, but so do the big heavy raisins.

8 on groomers, 2 goingu mai uei Conditions on 7 of those 10 were surprisingly good. On the other 3 it was pretty ugly.

Is there still another counting system for pregnancy in Hong Kong? In the US, I'm pretty sure its counted from the first missed period to the average delivery date = 9 months. In Japan I know its counted from the last period the woman actually had = 10 months to the avereage delivery date. If your little one is 6 mos and due in march that would make it 8 months. Do Hong Kong doctors count to the earliest possible date the baby could be born or something? I kept freaking out that 2 weeks after finding out, the baby was already in its "3rd" month by the Japanese counting

Yeah. The spitting thing isn't bad manners its a public health nightmare. But until somthing is done about the air polution, I don't see people swallowing all that black-lung induced phlem. But mark my words. As China's economy keeps booming, its not going to be long before western businessmen are being taught how to hock a golf-ball sized lugers in the center of a bull's eye at 50 yards in Chinese Business language classes.

About a half of this bunch of westerners' Japan-related trivial irritations" are related to Japanese "bad" manners. And how much of "business Japanese" language classes are more about Japanese business manners rather than language?

Head RS 80s are up for grabs now.

Now lots of cabs in Tokyo have car-navis. Knowledge not required.

Better than "pull" and "finger" Just into the 7th month. Sure flies by don't it?

Plenty of reviews online. Also plenty of discussion about this last year on this forum as well. Try the search function.

Yoga (even poorly done) is amazing for preventing them in my case. But I'm not pushing it or anything. The best fix I've found are those rodeoboy machines. You can usually give am a run for free at Tokyu hands. It seems to click whatever is out of place back into place for me.

If it makes you feel any better rach, I'm not doing anything cuz I've gotta f'in work tomorrow.

Toque, is that your god? I mean dog? Fantastic creature.

Reread you credit card's T & C. And definitely appeal the fraud charges. Its probably standard practice to pass the charges along to the customer (even though the customer is not obligated to pay) hoping at least some will pay without question.

Quote: Originally posted by skidaisuki: I have never heard of anyone losing stuff to thieves on the piste in Japan, nor from storage in accomodation. In short - no need to lock. That's the joy of this country. Cute Most of my crew here have had at least one board knicked in at a ski jo in Japan. Locked and not. A vigilant eye and a good uppercut are your best protection.

Its an AMBUSH!!!!! RUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNN. . .

Too quiet. . .

I clicked the most recent post link to this thread, so I read the very first post and then it immediately jumped to the last posts with Sailor boy talking about getting trashed and Cheeseman talking about cheese and I thought poor Panhead wasn't getting an answer. You all pretty much said what I was trying to say, but last year, the machines were f'd up (or at least the one I was using was). If I hadn't noticed a small sticker in Japanese posted next to the upper right hand button to access the "foreign account withdrawl" function, I would've been absolutely screwed. 20 minutes of tryin

Every cash machine at every post office (even in the remotest corners of Japan) is wired into the major international ATM systems like mac, plus, star, cyrus, etc which means that you can withdrawl cash directly from your own bank account in your home country as if you were in your own country. The PROBLEM is, ironically, that (at least as of September 2005) you could only do this if you read Japanese. No joke, you could not access the necessary function from any of the english menu options. If I have some time, I'll swing by the local post office later this week and see if I can't