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Fuck it i'll just sleep in the minivan too.

If I were taking my family I'd probably stay in PC for the whole experience, but it'll probably be just me and a buddy so we'll go with cheap hotel in SLC. Seems like a car is the way to go, the pow day consideration makes total sense.

Any of you guys ever use the ski shuttle bus in SLC? Thinking about doing Utah on airline and hotel points for a 4 day trip in early March. Should i just suck it up and rent a car?

Love me some Taos and Durango!

There is a mexican drink called a michelada where you mix a beer with tomato juice. Nasty.

My saw horses, plywood and vises are put to shame.

Awesome, where did you get said machine from?

Got my Blue season pass and will be doing most Saturdays and some weeknights there. If I can convince one of my buddies I want to make my first trip to Jackson. If not I'll do Taos again this year.

A good start is a mountain that is more about skiing that real estate development.

My mom, who lives in Albuquerque, NM was telling me that they got a great view of the eclipse from there. A bunch of people in her neighborhood made boxes with cutouts that you stand with your back to the sun and look at the eclipse through. She had bought some $1 eclipse glasses which were much better than looking though a box with a cutout. To me it kind of seems like people are overly cautious with all the glasses and boxes and stuff. Just get a quick look and then look away. I'm not an astronomer or an eye doctor, but if you need special glasses to look at an eclipse, shouldn't you do the same when you look at a sunset? Nobody does that though.

If you look real close you can see Aunt Becky walking in the lower right hand part of the picture. Awwww yeahh.

Thank you, it is a berber.

Oh no, I guess I should have taken them to a shop to be mounted and not just eyeballed it and then drilled.

Got Dynastar 6th Sense Slicers with Look Pivot 14s. Thanks Shadows for throwing that picture up there, still figuring out how to post shit with my phone.

Thats right, they are rockered.

It all arrived, I guess I have plenty of time to get the bindings mounted. Deal of the century so we'll see how it goes. Should probably spend my money on summer stuff now. <a href="http://s1079.photobucket.com/albums/w520/tcatan01/?action=view&current=08f78628.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w520/tcatan01/08f78628.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket Pictures, Images and Photos" /></a>

Seems like you could ship one of these also if the need ever arose. I get nervous checking anything. I picture the baggage handlers and TSA treating my luggage like Ace Ventura UPS guy.

Thanks for the info guys. Thats a nice looking bag. Really surprising to me that there are not any other bags that hold longer skis. My longest are 187, but if I get a pair of pow skis I will for sure need the extra length.

Since there's some good deals to be had out there this time of year, I'm looking to get a new travel bag. What do you all use, or what would anybody recommend? Want to get one that can carry and protect 2 pairs.

This guy is too worried about what other people are doing. Who cares what you look like or how good you are as long as its fun? Only thing I hate is when someone runs over my skis in line.

Prominence is basically how tall the mountain is compared to the surrounding area. If the surrounding area is high elevation already, a really high peak doesn't appear as prominenent. For example, in Colorado there are 14k foot peaks, but the surrounding area is 5-10k feet elevation so the mountains dont look as big.

SurprIsed me that the Tetons weren't on here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_peaks_by_prominence

I expected the rocky mountains to be a little rockier than this. I was thinking the same thing, that John Denver is full of shit man. - harry dunn & lloyd christmas

So I didn't demo a damn thing other than the Atomic Coax which I liked, but I found a pair of the slicers online for ridiculously cheap and since i just got my bonus at work I'm thinking about getting them without having demoed since I only hear great things about them. Seems low risk enough. Was wondering about bindings. I have a set of Salomon STH 14's I could swap onto them, or I also read that the Look PX 12 is recommended for the ski. Should I swap the STH 14's, or get new PX 12's? Other good options?

Warming hut on the way to Kachina Not almost there Still not almost there My goofy ass on top of Kachina Looking back up Kachina