June 2005

As for skiing turns all year, here we are coming up to July. With a good skiing June under our belts, we’re going to try making a few runs over the next months

New TAV tires: I achieved something close to samadhi today when I got to go tire shopping. The 03 Tacoma we built into a “TAV” came with stock tires about as thick as a piece of mountain money (otherwise known…

Backcountry Access has resolved their search to name their new beefy binding for backcountry skiing. Wonders, they decided to not give it a new name, but to continue calling it the NX21 with no other monikers (it had been provisionally…

Anecdotal evidence suggests it’s a Freddy Kruger nightmare being caught in an avalanche with a snowboard locked to both feet, limiting your ability to fight and dragging you down like cement boots.

Backcountry Skiing D System Still Improving