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| Radam |
 Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:43 pm |
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Obviously it is a ton of fun but it is a pain in the ass unless you live in the mountains. For me it is a choice of either:
1- Fill the gas tank $50 bucks
2- Load up the gear and drive for 2 hours
3- Pay $50 bucks for a lift ticket
4- Ride for 4 hours
5- Pay $20 bucks for lunch and a couple of beers
6- Ride for 2 more hours
7- Suit down and drive 2 hours home
Total money spent: Roughly $100 bucks
Total time spent: one day
Or:
1- Get in the car (my skateboard and pads are already in the trunk)
2- Drive 5 minutes to my local park (Pedlow in Encino)
3- Skate for free for as long as i feel like it
4- Suit down and drive home
Total money spent $0
Total time spent 3 hours
I understand if you live somewhere with no skateparks and you have a season pass or something but fuckit. Snowboarding sucks.
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| theGONZfather |
| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:02 pm |
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| I think its pretty awesome. |
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| theGONZfather |
| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:08 pm |
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You dont need lift tickets 
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| slob-air |
| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:01 pm |
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Radam wrote: Obviously it is a ton of fun but it is a pain in the ass unless you live in the mountains. For me it is a choice of either:
1- Fill the gas tank $50 bucks
2- Load up the gear and drive for 2 hours
3- Pay $50 bucks for a lift ticket
4- Ride for 4 hours
5- Pay $20 bucks for lunch and a couple of beers
6- Ride for 2 more hours
7- Suit down and drive 2 hours home
Total money spent: Roughly $100 bucks
Total time spent: one day
Indeed. Argh!
I got kicked off most of the mountains around here, but it didn't stop me. I was among the first to ever ride those mountains on a snowboard. The cost of it compounded with the creeping feeling that snowboarding was starting to look like skiing in a fashion sense did put me off. I liked to wear a WWII Pilots jumpsuit I got for $8 at the army surplus store and bomb the avalanche shoots�not a $150 ski suit that looks like something Michael Jackson would dig and then hang out at the chalet like the skiers named Lance and drink overpriced booze while listening to dumb music and dumber chicks. Fuck that.
I'd rather skate anyway. |
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| gimlifish |
| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:30 am |
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It's free to earn your turns and there's alot of backcountry out there. I've been using snowshoes for years now but I'm checking out split boards this season. Alot more distance can be covered with less effort on a split board and you don't have the extra weight of carrying up your board.
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| knowskateboarding |
| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:05 pm |
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Been ridin back country for 13 years and on a split for 5. This Voile 173 is a lil big for me, but fucking rules it, don't have to lean back at all in the deepest of pow.
I'll kick your ass up & down the mountain!
Resorts are for suxorz!
gearin up for gettin down!!!! Red Top Utah back country.
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| palmer628 |
| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:31 am |
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theGONZfather wrote: I think its pretty awesome.
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| PAWN |
| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:25 am |
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knowskateboarding wrote: Been ridin back country for 13 years and on a split for 5. This Voile 173 is a lil big for me, but fucking rules it, don't have to lean back at all in the deepest of pow.
I'll kick your ass up & down the mountain!
Resorts are for suxorz!
gearin up for gettin down!!!! Red Top Utah back country.
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| knowskateboarding |
| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:07 pm |
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Looking at the orange board, notice the large rectangular silver plates.
Those plates screw on to the bottom of your bindings. I use regular bindings and soft boots. Each plate slides on to 2 pucks that are on each side of the board and then is locked in place with a pin. You can't see them in that pic because the plate is on the pucks and in board mode.(set up for goofy)
Between those plates there is a thing that looks like a home plate in baseball, that's where you use the same pin to put them into tour mode(when you split the board apart), it acts as a pivot point at your toes allowing your heels to raise, essentially making it a cross country ski with the addition of skins(gives you traction in tour mode)
The little rectangular things are heels. When you're going up really steep terrain you flip up the heels and they keep your foot level while your skis are angled up, kinda like a stair, making it surprisingly much easier to go up steep stuff.
On a split board you can travel much faster than snowshoes and go where the helicopters and beelers don't. You have to know what you're doing though, beacons, rescue, snow conditions, etc. scawey stuff, but well worth it.
go to http://www.voile-usa.com/ and click on split board, there are videos of how it works there. |
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| gimlifish |
| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:25 pm |
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| Prior out of Vanvouver and Burton both make spilt-boards as well and I've heard good things about both. |
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