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K2 = telemark bigoocy my street cred: 205 karhu XCDs/Rottefellas and Asolo Extreme cow hides

leading turn with the inside ski, making a pretty sharp cut for tele powder, but hey I could be wrong. ...and those look like K2 Shuksans to me...usually mounted and marketed as AT. gawd I am not thinking about work at all

damn I love Utah. looks like the world-famous Morrison Formation at the base (the dark red). Probably the next undiscovered t-rex in there somewhere.

I don't see it wearing any overpriced soft shell products

I hope the nutball you are talking about is not the nutball featured on the tv show Jackass. That game basically involves a bunch of guys sitting around in their underwear throwing racketballs at each other's nuts. At the end, someone lucky chap gets to have a dogbone thrown at him. One of the funniest scenes on television

esp. when Washington/Oregon are experiencing some of the best skiing in years right now. As good as it has ever been. I'm still grinning from Sunday.

The moon exerts a powerful gravitational pull on the earth folks. This is how tides are formed.

Maybe I read the wrong book, but I thought Snow Sense was a great intro to backcountry snow safety. It gives good go/no-go advice w/o getting bogged down in the arcane details of snow crystals and other crap that really isn't that important to backcountry skiers being safe, yet seems to find its way into a lot of avalanche books. I think the objective "stoplight" approach Fredson/Fesler give to help take the guesswork and human factors out of decisions is perfect for those who want safety but don't need tons of unnecessary analysis. It is far, far better for overall safety info than "The Avalanche Handbook", for instance. For some reason, the latter has often been viewed as the bible, yet it actually has little to offer the backcountry traveler in comparison to its scientific background.

the pigeons at smith rock are flying snafflehounds

Nice photos, nice read. Thanks.

the great thing about this site is how fresh and new the material is.

offwhite that is phenomenal, thanks. I hate work.

looks like a good road gap to jump

'cept k2 has that "at skiers suck" bumper sticker and this fella's clearly randonee w/ that stance...

maybe it was an alien head that was using the mother as a host and it had outgrown its lair

they?

heh I'll be in the vicinity of Golden or Canmore from 14th - 22nd. Maybe we'll cross paths.

what is this an exodus of eugenites?

I will now refer to you as iBobbit.

and I think he's too male to be "petite"...well just barely

Wouldn't that be DJ Montecore (or whatever that poor animal's name is)?

I learned over the last couple years that they're not going to be around forever and you only get one set (of biological) parents in a lifetime. Thankfully mine are pretty cool. Exactly. As I get older the reality sets in that I will only have a limited time to spend with them. In the past, I never let myself acknowledge this. Every holiday season becomes much more important to me.

it also comes with a free subscription to cracked's monthly softshell verbal harassment service.

I resolve to take my dad up Mt. Hood and spend more time with my parents in general.

nice!