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DFA wears panties?!!!

Carolyn, you DON'T like to feel your nose hairs freeze?! I can only think of two sensations I like better than than that, and one of them is the sensation of a telemark turn in powder.

Poor Carolyn getting picked on, althought I suppose you do ask for it. Oddly I could go for a dose of flatland winter right now over what we're having, just to walk around in the cold, with everything white, and feel the sensation of my nose-hairs freezing would be really good.

I've never tried it for cleaning mildew, so I don't know from experience, but I've been told that Dr. Bronner's soap is an excellent antifungal.

When I lived in Portland I used to go to the place downtown next to the Tugboat for Mexican Food. It wasn't great, but they shared the bathroom in Mary's, the strip club next door. Classy

Iain, BD is notorious for testing ALL of their products on the public.

I know at least two dozen skiers who have used ascension skins exclusively (including myself) and never had problems with them (but don't buy seconds). I don't know if there's any data out there to corroborate, but I'd guess that they are the most reliable skin. However, I considered it a bad thing when BD bought ascension and the clipfix tail definitely performs poorly compared to the old Euro Kit due to the changing length of skins as the get cold/warm or wet/dry. A friend of mine bought the BCA skins this year and wound up putting new ascension glue on them the first day he used them because they didn't stick well.

As far as I know G3 ain't making skins anymore because their glue kept peeling. After the first year, they claimed to fix the problem. Marmot sold me the second year's model, after the salesperson raved about how great they were, then my first day out touring a huge patch of glue peeled from one side of the skin to the other.

Now Iain, we all know you wanna telemark. If Beck works at Marmot, I WOULD trust his opinion. Beck, are you guys FINALLY carrying the Hardwires?

LMAO "Objectively" blah blah blah blah I hardly see how snobbish judgements of people's attire and lifestyle can be anything other than a SUBJECTIVE interpretation. I'm guilty of them as well, but I wouldn't claim that they were "objective" "observations".

Both, oh wait wrong activity

I will not ridicule anyone for having fun. Yesterday I had a group of UW football player on my Whidbey Island field trip who were very disruptive and noisy. But they were having more fun than me, and I couldn't give them a hard time about it. If people have fun watching a football game every so often, while hanging out with good friends and family, why should that piss you off?

In my not-quite-so-limited experience they both suck. They often don't know anything about the gear they carry, they continue to carry and rave about gear that has proven to be unrealiable (i.e. G3 skins which have been discontinued), and they don't always have the friendliest service, which is a must for local indendent shops like FF to survive (althought they have been). Perhaps REI is the only way. Maybe FF or Marmot have been able to cut it here, but if they were in Salt Lake City, or Denver, or any other mountain town, they would've been driven out already.

I'm looking for a good shop to buy backcountry safety equipment and telemark gear in the Seattle area. Here's the catch. They have to have all three of the following: A good selection Friendly, knowledgable service Fair prices For one or more reasons this rules out: Marmot Feathered Friends REI

Without the Eagles, who cares.

Anytime you wanna meet me in sunny, warm weather to give it a go I'll be game.

1. Outer Space, 11worth 2. Davis-Holland, Index 3. Sons of Yesterday

I was skiing in the rain on Wednesday. I can honestly say that I can remember days when I've had a lot less fun in a lot better conditions. But I wouldn't go again.

17/20 2, 9, and 14 I got wrong. I was really hoping that 14 was real but I wasn't sure so I guessed wrong, they actually are real.

Loosin' teeth ain't so bad. It adds character to your smile.

In response to a post made in a different thread, I thought I'd make a philosophical distinction and perhaps open another rhetorical, pointless argument. Even 18 helicopter trips doesn't come close to multiple seasons walking on skis, breaking trail, route finding, and making snow stabilty assesments. What many people call backcountry skiing (like heli-skiing, and out of bounds skiing at ski resorts) lacks all of the above mentioned elements. That's why backcountry skiers time and again make these distinctions. The difference is as profound as the difference between leading every other pitch of the Nose, and top-roping at exit 38.

Just to be a dick, The music sucks in both movies, the script sucks in both movies, the frantic pace of both movies sucks, and the movies just overall SUCK. Pull your heads out of your asses. Books are better. On a more serious note, check out the Revelstoke thread. It appears that one of the Avalanche victims was the original Burton pro snowboarder Craig Kelly

Any loss to an avalanche is sad, but this one is an especially big loss. Craig Kelly was the Scott Schmidt of snowboarding.

That's not the famous Craig Kelly, the pro snowboarder who guides at Bald Face near Nelson, is it?

Why is it that it took TWO movies for people to realize that the Lord of the Rings movies SUCK? But the bitch of it is, as Greg says, I will pay to see the last. However, I WILL NOT pay to see the last Star Wars film.