Indeed! There are problems with frequency drift in all beacons as they age, leading to incompatibility (check at the trailhead!) $140 for a used Non-Digital old school beacon
BS on the skiers. It's extremely tiring for a skier to sideslip - I've yet to see a skiier sideslip for more than a dozen feet or so.
Both fatal accidents at Meadows have been snow boarders this year.
Because the glue sucked the first year, everyone returned them, G3 had didn't have enough to replace them?
The only thing that sucks about the BD Glidelite's is they only come with a dinky velcro strap, and not a skin bag.
They seem to stay on twintips better than regular tips. On my Crossbows, until I installed the rat-tail ala wildsnow, the stupid clips would unclip all the time. Irritating.
I've not heard anything good about Low-Fats.
Given the number of awesome climbers to come from Slovene, one would think you'd at least heard of it.... like these guys:
http://www.climbing.com/news/amazslov/
I read a review of that one. Guy said it was like 3/4" thick?!
The only cool thing about the Golf line is the GPS integrated into the watch - that's closing in on my navigational Holy Grail - GPS, Compass, Altimeter in one wrist sized package.