Member jimw

Forgot to follow up on this. Here’s the Milligram 163 (with Spark pucks, T1 hardware, and heel locks):

Here’s the Spliff, with the same hardware, only difference is the Mg has Karakoram Ultra Clips, Spliff has regular Voile clips:

So, the Mg is about 1.5 lbs lighter. Their specs are here, they seem pretty…[Read more]

Liver cancer. Freaking sucks. There was a gofundme not too long ago to help raise funds for medical expenses. Same age as me. Man… I remember his parts in the TB movies. So freakin’ smooth, even on steep AK spines. Great interview/history in the videos here:
Snowboarding Pioneer, Noah Salasnek Dead At Age 47

TOWELIE!! Holy shit, he’s back! 🙂 Thanks for the the awesome update! Eastside is gonna be epic this spring. We gotta make some turns! See you at the Mo-mart.

I think it was more like 1.5 lbs lighter than the Spliff for just the board, and then another .25 lbs or so for the skins. So more like 1.75 lbs lighter total. I’ll check it again when I’m back home in a few days. Either way, it was definitely significantly, noticeably lighter. The Spliff is not actually that light considering how short it is.…[Read more]

You made a lot of good points, many of which I agree with, but I just disagree with you conclusion at the end of the earlier post that a lightweight carbon board “will not make you noticeably faster”. As much as I didn’t want to admit it (because my motto has always been “fast and light is for pussies” :)), for me it absolutely does.

As far as…[Read more]

OK… I have never been accused of being a weight weenie :):

My main concern has always been downhill performance. I wasn’t willing to sacrifice weight to gain a climbing advantage if there was any perceptible impact on my downhill fun quotient. And I don’t baby my board… and it gets abused a lot with late spring/early summer missions. So,…[Read more]

Played out. 🙂

Pic from a couple weeks ago, after the first big storm. Good coverage all the way to the car, super fat up high, just enough down low.

Yeah, that’s confusing. Just use a different term than one that’s already well understood to mean something else FFS!!

Anyway, about the Fish… never heard of one that had 40mm, but maybe they did. That is a shitload of taper. I had a Fish from one of the first years and it was 30mm. I split it and the very first run I took it on was this…[Read more]

Maybe, I guess I’d say try it with your stance and see. I just got that same board, and found that the split version measures narrowed than the specs in all width dimensions (nose/waist/tail) by a couple mm, so it’s probably right on the borderline. With that size boot every mm makes a difference.

Thanks for that info, I just thought about the heel cup after I posted that and was wondering if it was different. Anyway FWIW I’ve ridden with my 295 Fitwells in a size M Afterburner (and M heel cup) without the heel cup being positioned all the way back, and the boot seemed well centered on the baseplate. Also, the heel of the Fitwell is…[Read more]

The size M and L baseplates are the same length, only the width is different. The Fitwells aren’t super wide compared to most regular boots, so your M Afterburners should be fine. Dimensional specs here:
http://sparkrandd.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/SMLBaseplateSizingAB.pdf

You might need a wide board depending on your stance and the…[Read more]

Oh man, that’s funny… sorta. 🙂 You would think having Xavier’s pro model they would have a clue about this. I assumed it was just a manufacturing defect but maybe it was actually intentional?? Weird.

Anyway, thanks for all the help working this out! I still need to send it back in, just spoke to someone there about that and will be sending…[Read more]

I just ran into the same issue! Ordered a 159 from mountaingear on insane closeout price, mounted up all the hardware and was like “wait a minute, something isn’t right here…” It would probably be OK with older bindings using the regular Voile climbing wires, but with the Tesla system bindings they require a precise position of the heel rest…[Read more]

I just ran into the same issue! Ordered a 159 from mountaingear on insane closeout price, mounted up all the hardware and was like “wait a minute, something isn’t right here…” It would probably be OK with anything except the Tesla system bindings, because those require a precise position of the heel rest to match up with the climbing wires…[Read more]

Saddlebag Road is open! Just posted some info on TGR:
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php/283577-Eastern-Sierra-BC-2014-15?p=4484669#post4484669

Coverage is OK, but not great. Lots of chutes that normally go, don’t. Or they look way spicier than normal. Stuff up high is still transitional.

120 is supposed to open all the way…[Read more]

^^^ well-done article.

Here’s an interview with her on the Karakoram site:
http://www.splitboardbindings.com/ambassadors/liz-daley/

WTFing F?!? Got on sb.com for the first time in months to find this… Don’t know what to say. So terrible. 😥 Her TR’s were always so inspiring and it really seemed like she was living life. RIP.

Yeah Morgan, next year you should come out, now you know for next season that you gotta stay in climbing mode mentally a little longer. 🙂

The pond skim was the day before the descent. I figured doing some skim laps and chillin’ on the snow island with a beer would keep my mind off the next day’s task! Interestingly, that pond totally changed…[Read more]