im looking at getting an airbag back pack. do they come complete? i keep looking and looks like you have to buy all the kit seperate
We placed an order last night with Snowinn - good prices, not sure what the service is like though.
My experiences lead me to believe the Inn group service is pish.
Thanks for all the suggestions listed above, will take a mooch.
Y'know those inserts in snowboards into which you screw your bindings? One of them in my snowboards has become cross threaded (just remember this from last time I used it - it's in the loft at the moment but I'm considering taking it with me this year instead of renting again). Are they easily removable?
I think I've done that cervinia piste if it's the one that goes from kleine Matterhorn all the way down. Epic. Part of a road trip with mates quite a few years ago where we based at aosta and did a different resort each day. pila, courmayer, cervinia, champulac.
Highly recommended
Y'know those inserts in snowboards into which you screw your bindings? One of them in my snowboards has become cross threaded
T-nuts can be removed and replaced (by drilling through the base of the board) but I'd say it's an unnecessary faff for just one of them. You should be able to just re-tap the threads with a decent tap & die set. T-nuts are standard M6
im looking at getting an airbag back pack. do they come complete?
Which ones have you been looking at Jedi?
A few years ago most were complete, whereas now a number of the current solutions (particularly ABS-Vario style) are modular which allows you to choose a pack size (or multiple pack sizes) that meet your requirements i.e. small pack for heli drop, medium for day touring, large for multiday touring etc ...
Is that what you mean by not 'complete' ?
Have you had a look at Face West's selection?
[url= http://www.facewest.co.uk/Avalanche-Packs.html ]Airbags[/url]
The Black Diamond Jet Force solution looks to be very interesting development (and avoid the customs hassle of trying to fly with a cylinder). They don't seem to offer vertical carry for snowboards though
[quoteT]he Black Diamond Jet Force
£900 for a day pack 😯
£900 for a day pack
I think the day version is <£800 ... but yeah - it's a bug chunk of change for sure!!
But then getting cylinders confiscated / replaced can be costly and you can't fly to the US with a cylinder!
I'm off for a weeks skiing in January and need to purchase some goggles and gloves. The goggles will need to go over my prescription glasses too, any recommendations for some without breaking the bank?
Smith do decent OTG goggles. I used to have a pair that cost about £30, although that was in a sale.
@Digby, Cheers. Certainly not drilling through the bottom of the board so will try a tap and die first.
I use Cebe OTG goggles and they're pretty good. Only very occasionally do they steam up and it's when we've been stood around a long time. They also fit my face a lot better than the Smith onces I tried which were really tight despite being OTG ones.
so will try a tap and die first
forgot to mention, you will need an M6 tap with a flat 'nose' rather than a pointy one
RS components do them.
deadlydarcy - if it's a 4-hole binding system, you can always just rely on the "3 was enough for Burton" strategy...
Tbh stevo, it's done 2½ holidays with only three. Was only thinking I'd sort it properly with some downtime over Christmas. I probably won't and it'll do another couple of holidays this season. 😀
"3 was enough for Burton" strategy...
Tru dat! ... or just one big one! 🙂
I probably won't and it'll do another couple of holidays this season
... well, you could always use this as an excuse to tinker with your stance and go wider! (and use another set of holes) 🙂
Or cut it and make a split board 😀
Not sure I get the thinking behind the Snooc. Skin up, take off bindings, bolt perfectly good skis together, wear out perfectly serciceable shoes whilst filling your ski pant legs with snow.
Try walking up and sliding down again on a bin liner! Or Skiing down on the skis?
I'm out.
Don't think we've done this yet have we?
Subscribing.
Nice link Digby, thanks.
Cheers Digby,
Seen that linked on fb a couple of times, but not watched it. Mostly because the guy at 2:00, Alex Do, talking about his buddy dying, was the guy I went to the Lyngen Alps with a few years ago. I knew what had happened, and I didn't want to watch him talk about it. 🙁
Careful out there, folks.
🙁 nedrapier.
Well done him for taking part in the film though. If his story helps others think twice then it will have been worthwhile!
The Know Before You Go video is great, one of the ski schools in Meribel are showing it as part of their mountain safety presentations. Maybe a bit more Gnar than a Henry's Avalanche type video but it kept 3 chalet companies worth of staff interested and they asked the right questions after watching it.
Not sure about the OTG goggles from Smith but their googles are the best I've ever used. I/OXs have great quality lens and are as comfy as anything I've over strapped to my head.
Really good carving video, sorry direct linky no worky
I'm liking that very much howsyourdad1 ! cheers 🙂
(btw - just delete the 's' in https and hey presto!)
ok will do next time. i could test that here but it might make a div of myself
/\/\ too late to be worrying about that sunshine 🙂
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>Really good carving video, sorry direct linky no worky
they're pretty nifty..
piemonster - Member/\/\ too late to be worrying about that sunshine
I consider myself inept, but as yet not a div, per se 😀
Took our 4&1/2 year old to Xscape while his big brother was in Laserzone.
Button lifts were a bit of a struggle, but he hasn't forgotten how to snowplough down the slope.
😀
Have we done the latest Candide vid yet?
H8rz gunna h8, but that was pretty cool!
Watched all f that thinking "HOW" did they film and ski that!
Never moaning about conditions again.
Never moaning about conditions again.
Was looking at the Serre Che webcams earlier. Those appear to be the current conditions. 🙁
hmm. think that Audi ad might owe un hommage a celui ci:
http://www.zapiks.fr/leaf-line.html
which probably owes the same in turn to plenty of others. bof.
Candide certainly bams it up a notch!
Nice one. Did anyone else yelp as he went between those two trees?
I was wondering if it was filmed on snow then cleverly made to look like mud, but the more if it I saw the more it looked like mud skiing.
Hopefully you'll get your Christmas wish of a big dump of powder Cap.
I was thinking how much the landings would have hurt.
He needs to look after his knees 🙂
Just got a newsletter from the French bike guides' association. It's all about Fat Biking on snow and points out to me that, as a bike guide who also holds a winter sports qualification, I'm qualified to run Fat-Bike-on-Snow stuff (yes, even on the French ski slopes! Mon dieu!).
Not something I'd ever given much thought to, but it does seem to be getting quite popular in some resorts.
Just curious, as this is obviously a pretty keen cross-over MTB / Ski audience, how many would be interested in having a crack at it while on a ski/snowboard holiday? Suggested activities are stuff like "last run" Fat Bike descents of the ski runs after the lifts close, XC-ish loops on snowshoe trails or similar and night-rides. Realistically, bike-hire + guide isn't going to be cheap, although a fat bike is at least a lot cheaper to buy in and maintain than, e.g. a DH bike.
Re. Candide Thovex - having done my fair share of snowboarding across bare grassy slopes or forest floors when off-piste missions pushing the limits of the snow cover have been taken to extremes, I know how very, very wrong that sh*t can go. Whole video makes me wince, but fair play! That last shot was surely achieved via the magic of cinema?
Stevo - as a bad board rider, and a mediocre fat bike rider, it sounds like a fantastic early / late season idea as an extra. You know those times when some pistes are open higher up, but the lower stretches are brown/green?
I think I'd love it as an option, and if it was just me (not my wife, 9 and 4 year sons) it would influence my choice of Easter time resort (but then I probably wouldn't be going at Easter without school holiday issues) but it would be for the days / times / routes where the board doesn't work.
Ultimately fantastic as snow biking (fat or otherwise) is, I can do it in the UK most winters, and it would really just be a novelty in the Alps.
Fantastic on the days when the resort is a little bare though.
