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For the record, you do not have to go skinny to save weight. The voile chargers, for instance, weigh the same as my K2 shuksans (listed). My Voile Drifters (125 underfoot!) are actually slightly lighter than my Shuksans. It's crazy how light those drifters are.

having worked my way through 3 skis now, I'll disagree with Alex's assessment that skis aren't that important The Voile Charger is a good fatter ski, similar to the Voile Drifters I use on powder days -- in fact, I think the Charger might have been Voile's replacement for the Drifter model? The dimensions look very similar. I find the drifter to be a good deep-snow ski and actually handles crud OK as well because I guess it just bull-dozes through stuff or something. That said, I find using them (the drifters) on less-than-powder days is not a lot of fun: the skins are heavy, it's harder to keep an edge when traversing hard snow, and the dimensions of that particular ski make carving on harder snow less excellent. tl;dnr: I do not consider the Charger an all-around ski. I think the REI guys are steering you wrong. I've got a pair of Shuksans as well, and they are actually pretty light (I think the older models were heavier). It is a much, much better choice for an all-around ski imo. I would not be happy with my Drifters on a lot of spring days; it's kinda like having a snowboard on each foot. good luck!

It would be fun to see Rachael Maddow start espousing conservative ideals so that FW would have to disagree with them.

I have a cc.com mobile app on my phone, it's called chrome.

So how does anyone know about them? But you're right, it's probably a good idea to have no doubt.

Yeah, they're way too small to care about, amirite? Who cares if they went from 1 a year to over 500 this year already. Definitely not statistically significant, and even if it were, the earthquakes are really small. Everyone is obviously being PARANOID! DRILL BABY DRILL! Nothing to see here. P.S. get those damn bicycles off the road so I have room to drive my car! VROOOOOM! right, FW? You're super intelligent, I respect that about you

This is Putin moments before he killed this stray dog with his hands. You can see his hands slowly moving towards the neck.

what's wrong with killing stray dogs?

+1 for Von Trapps. I don't know how the owners of the dray managed to make the yard feel like a red robin, but they found a way!

and now you have no one left

can someone bring me up to speed on this thread? I want to participate. Regards,

I see a whole lotta $85k

I'm sure FW filtered the data to teaching positions only, before coming up with his "whole lotta $85k" figure. His math just not work the same as mine.

lol. OK, so it's annoying because the website makes you subscribe if you have more than like 5 views, which makes it hard to average any kind of numbers -- but I assumed you must have done this since you certainly wouldn't have just jumped to the conclusion that "I see a whole lotta $70-$85k" just by glancing at the first page of 20 employees out of tens of thousands, right? so imagine my surprise when I discovered that a) it's pretty easy to bypass their registration screen and even query their database yourself and b) the average pay for teaching positions is not anywhere near what you suggest it is. Weird, right?

This is why I've petitioned to have all statues of Julius Caesar everywhere in the world melted down -- he really slaughtered my Gaulish ancestors. If you disagree with me, you're insensitive.

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/34922/

great pics as usual!

I imagine there are a lot of brand-new Seahawks shirts on display there

THIS IS A REALLY BIG DEAL!! OMG I"M WRITING A LETTER TO THE EDITOR!!!!

You mean I don't get a check or anything if Seattle wins?

Glissading with crampons? Tsk Tsk! I love this climb. Surprising how low the coverage is!

I bet Christie has a wide stance

I often wonder what is more retarded: paleo diet, or crossfit? It's interesting that both appeal to the same kind of person. Q.E.D.!