Member Tim Ryan

That is awesome! You are doing it right. You and your family will have so many fond memories in the years ahead.

The best thing you can put on a blister like that for immediate relief is a product called “Compeed.” It was its own company but is now a Johnson & Johnson product. It may say something like “blister ampoules” on the package. They come in a variety of sizes – make sure you get the right size for your blister. They provide immediate relief. If…[Read more]

There are a lot of different software programs to create animated GIFs and panoramics. The least expensive I’ve found is MicroSoft Digital Image. It’s pretty easy in MS Digital Image to follow the menu commands for “flipbook” animation to create an animated gif. The key is to compress the original images, saved under a new name, so that the…[Read more]

I can create an animated gif for you. E-mail me the photos and I’ll post the gif if you like.

Address (all run together) tim ryan denver at (@) msn . com

I like National Geographic TOPO! a lot. I can trace out a route on the computer, have it calculate and save a GPS route, and upload the route and any waypoints to a GPS.

I printed out the map below on waterproof paper, from iGage (http://www.iGage.com) and took it on a recent hike up Mt. Harvard in Colorado. On the other side I printed the next map,…[Read more]

My daughter, then age 14, on a splitboard near Loveland Pass, Colorado – December, 2004

North Face of Point Juliana – Northern Selkirk Mountains, BC Canada

After descending the above face, April, 1997, on a DIY Town and Country split

Climbing Mt. Ruth in the Northern Selkirks of BC after it gets too steep to skin, April 2005

This big…[Read more]

I like swallowtails – big swallowtails.

I love my Voile 195 swallowtail so much that when another one came up on eBay I bought it for insurance. The Nitro 195 PowderGun is my heli-board. (Note how similar the Voile is to the Nitro PowderGun – in the flesh they look identical). I use the Nitro 196 PowPow on resort powder days. I just scored…[Read more]

I’ve used a couple of them since about 2000. I love them. Superior fit and comfort. Make sure that you have good footbeds. I slip into my boots almost like slippers. It’s very key to get them fitted properly. I’d recommend finding a good bootfitter and see if he thinks they could be cut down – I’m pretty sure that’s do-able. But try them as…[Read more]

I run the tension significantly lighter on my toe lever when backcountry boarding so that this system works more reliably. When riding inbounds, they are cranked much more tightly.

http://www.wildsnow.com/articles/snowboard_quick_release/snowboard_release.html

I bought this board from the old Mountain Miser in Englewood, CO in in February 1998. It rode great in powder, and I still have it as a backup.

Those were taken with a digital camera: Canon 30D with the 60 mm f 2.8 macro lens.

Following below are some more taken on today’s hike.

Representing from Colorado

Here’s a 3.5 minute video of a trip I took to Last Frontier in 2004.

Another option is to simply slide the poles between your back and your pack. For many years in the past I used one piece (non-collapsible) poles because of frustration with unwanted slippage of the locking mechanism. Another advantage of this scheme is the ability to quickly pull out your poles for poling across a flat stretch, or whenever you…[Read more]

Hey Long Board Rider! Thanks for the thoughts.

Flow: I’m exactly two weeks out today, and I really feel great. I think I will actually be sliding on snow this weekend as I take my son to race team at Loveland, but I will be going gently, i.e. as though I were in a “No Fall Zone” all day long. I’m sure that in 4 or 6 weeks I will be as good as…[Read more]

I only broke 2 ribs, but I also punctured and partly collapsed a lung. About 12 days ago and I feel pretty good right now after a very rough first 4 days. I wish I could say I did this going huge, but the fact is I tripped on a catwalk with one foot out as I was pedalling along.

Here are some thoughts I’ve collected and saved in a file:

To seal newly exposed edges, use 2 component epoxy applied by finger, 2 layers separated by 24 hours. After 3 to 4 days to totally dry out, paint over epoxy with exterior paint for a little extra protection and a finished look.

Put touring hinge pin slightly behind balance point so that…[Read more]

Don’t believe the comedian! Pro racing riders like Michi Dabringer use angles like 54° front and 48° rear, so you definitely don’t want to go anywhere near 60°.

I use Scarpa Denali boots both on my K2 Eldo and several splitboards. At the ski area I have my Eldo set up at 40° front and 35° rear. My backcountry splitboards…[Read more]

Sometimes I still use this board, which was new in a shop in 1997. But it isn’t the original interface. My first board was a DIY, and you chose your stance angles and were permanently committed to them because you screwed the pucks into the board. The system pictured here was a big improvement because you could easily change your angles, or…[Read more]