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gpetrics
10-15-2009, 05:09 PM
If you're thinking about making some turns this weekend, I wrote up a quick summary (http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/weekend-outlook/) of the conditions we found this week around VT and NH as well as a summary of reports from around the north country over at FIS to aid your decision making process...
http://famousinternetskiers.com/media/greg/09-10/stowe_bush_mrg/IMG_0984.jpg (http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/weekend-outlook/)

hopefully you find it useful in making your sliding decisions this weekend!

In the meantime, caption contest for the above photo/link...

i'll start "OH MY GAWD!! HOW DID MY POLEZ GET SO MUCH PINKZER THANZ DA FOILODGE?!!@!~"
BladeGirl
10-16-2009, 09:39 AM
I iz brite so u don't ski into me!

Hey! Dis not snow! It foam on grass!

Where ski bases go to die.
boardman
10-16-2009, 02:58 PM
MWO webcam pics look awful purdy right now - west side looks much whiter than the east side.
icedtea
10-21-2009, 06:25 AM
supposed to hit around 70 today in Manasquan, dirtee jerzee...

grr.
gpetrics
10-22-2009, 06:48 PM
just put up a spoofy TR about taking foilage pictures...

enjoi

http://famousinternetskiers.com/media/greg/09-10/stowe_bush_mrg/IMG_0853.jpg (www.famousinternetskiers.com/trip-reports/09-10/capturing-the-brilliance-of-dying-leaves/)
jshefftz
10-22-2009, 08:02 PM
just put up a spoofy TR about taking foilage pictures...

Cool stuff!

I love this quote:


"Another trick often used by skilled photographers such as ourselves to help the viewer “step into” a photo is the judicious use of the so-called “vanishing point“. For those of you who failed middle school art, the “vanishing point” is the term which is used to describe the optical illusion that straight lines heading away from one’s viewpoint apparently converge at a point in the distance. First discovered in the Renaissance (before which time the entire world was shaped liked an M.C. Escher drawing), this trick can be used to guide the viewer’s eye to the subject of your photograph [...]

I know nothing about photography, but I always liked something about this picture a friend took of me:


http://lh6.ggpht.com/_7BAmdolYkPw/SD2HAdPPETI/AAAAAAAADm0/FSrFCJvz_ks/s800/01a.JPG



But of course, I liked this passage especially more, since I started nodding in agreement and then looked at the picture to realize . . .



Our final topic is about maximizing the intangibles. Sometimes people are just really happy that leaves are dying, and capturing that sentiment alone can be enough to seal you the cover of Vermont Magazine


http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/media/sam/09_10/Fall_Shots/IMG_1619.jpg
The Lisa
10-22-2009, 10:05 PM
Love your wit, guys - that was hilarious! That was some phat phall pholiage photography.
drewvw
10-23-2009, 10:11 AM
nice writeup...maybe in the future we can get more pictures of Jonathan's frontside...instead of focusing on the backside? :D
jshefftz
10-23-2009, 10:28 AM
...maybe in the future we can get more pictures of Jonathan's frontside...instead of focusing on the backside? :D

But that's my best side!

Okay, fine, how about this:


http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/media/sam/09_10/Fall_Shots/IMG_1632.jpg
The Lisa
10-23-2009, 11:07 AM
nice writeup...maybe in the future we can get more pictures of Jonathan's frontside...instead of focusing on the backside? :D

Because that would require someone being fast enough not only to be in front of Jonathan but to have enough of a lead to stop and take photos. :rolleyes:
PwdrHound
10-23-2009, 11:20 AM
http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/media/sam/09_10/Fall_Shots/IMG_1632.jpg

Is it me or does Jonathan look to be a bit in the backseat???
Must be the photography ;)
drewvw
10-23-2009, 11:33 AM
you're pants fit you well jonathan...we get it.

That frontside picture is pretty sweet...one of the best october "skiing" pics I've seen so far.
jshefftz
10-23-2009, 11:33 AM
Is it me or does Jonathan look to be a bit in the backseat???
I thought that I look (and am) *hugely* in the backseat in that pic!
Partly it's the portion of the turn, but largely it was my first real run of the season since early July (the skiing October 1 was really marginal), and I was nervous about early-season snow snakes and potential damage to my Manaslu skis. (I'm not sure whether sitting back makes sense in such a situation, but I tend to do that when I'm tentative.)
However, I very quickly realized that the cover was just fine on the grassy trails, and hence got more centered after that. Truly a great day of skiing, regardless of the time of year.
jshefftz
10-23-2009, 11:40 AM
That frontside picture is pretty sweet...one of the best october "skiing" pics I've seen so far.
Over 7,000' vertical of mainly untracked powder skiing somehow needs quotations marks because . . . ?
(By contrast, the skiing I did on October 1 was so marginal that quotation marks would be merited.)
PwdrHound
10-23-2009, 12:11 PM
I thought that I look (and am) *hugely* in the backseat in that pic!

It's all good...the smile makes up for it! Wish I was there for the season opener.
bristlecone
10-23-2009, 10:44 PM
It's all good...the smile makes up for it!Constructive critical buddies. Like it.

That smile says it all. Backseat with a wonky booster strap? Pah. It's sliding on snow!

(And to think what some pictures of me skiing would show.)
jshefftz
10-23-2009, 11:04 PM
[...] wonky booster strap [...]
What's wrong with the Booster Strap?
(Either way, gotta love Sam's super-sharp focus that allows the letters to be read so clearly.)
bristlecone
10-23-2009, 11:14 PM
What's wrong with the Booster Strap?
Nothing - it's the bit hanging off loosely that makes it wonky ;)

Sharp photo indeed. One of many excellent photos from the F.I.S.
jshefftz
10-24-2009, 10:27 AM
No way around having that excess. If you look in the first of Sam's super-sharp photos, you can see how for skinning I allow for the maximum stride by loosening up the strap all the way, yet keeping it from flopping around by having it inserted in the buckle just a little bit. Then I quickly cinch it tight for yet another super-fast skin>ski transition.
(Well, I suppose I could tuck the end of the loose strap under a buckle or something, but that add a couple entirely unacceptable seconds to my transition...)
icelanticskier
10-24-2009, 12:41 PM
No way around having that excess. .
(Well, I suppose I could tuck the end of the loose strap under a buckle or something, but that add a couple entirely unacceptable seconds to my transition...)

well johnny, if you'd just get a pair of big boy boots, you'd have no need for rooster straps.;)

rog
jshefftz
10-24-2009, 12:52 PM
well johnny, if you'd just get a pair of big boy boots, you'd have no need for rooster straps.;)

Other way around -- one of the biggest AT boots out there comes stock with Booster Straps:

http://content.backcountry.com/images/items/large/SCR/SCR0100/ONECOL.jpg


And Booster Straps are a very common upgrade on alpine downhill plug boots -- I have them on my Dobies.
drewvw
10-24-2009, 01:00 PM
Jonathan...a friend of mine has access to a new super light (and super expensive) line of rando race boots coming out this season, though its unclear how much access the public will have to them.

New company throwing there hat in the ring, I'm thinking you would be all over them, if you are willing to pony up the 2 grand that is.

yes, that's what i said...2 grand for boots. Supposedly they are worth it.
jshefftz
10-24-2009, 01:54 PM
Jonathan...a friend of mine has access to a new super light (and super expensive) line of rando race boots coming out this season, though its unclear how much access the public will have to them.

New company throwing there hat in the ring, I'm thinking you would be all over them, if you are willing to pony up the 2 grand that is.

yes, that's what i said...2 grand for boots. Supposedly they are worth it.

Who is this friend? And how can I become friends with him?

Seriously though, I have my sights on the Dynafit DyNA:
http://skitheory.blogspot.com/2009/10/dynafit-dyna-boot-get-stoked.html
... since of all the cf boot exotica out there:
http://www.skimountaineering.org/en/ispo-2009-ski-mountaineering-market-not-crisis-boots-booming-carbon-trend-de
http://theseskisarewings.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-imagine-post-after-post-about.html
... the DyNA looks to be the most well suited for late spring and early summer ski mountaineering. I mean, I can't imagine doing stuff like booting up the steep scree scramble from the Emmons Glacier bergschrund to the top of the Interglacier in a cf lower shell. Plus the PG boot has a bad rep for other durability problems.
The cf version of the F1 is tempting, but I have mixed feelings about the bellows on my modified F1 and previously owned F3, which was great for tromping around like this:

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_7BAmdolYkPw/SD2H59PPElI/AAAAAAAADp8/9cNiW1zISVg/s800/1f.JPG


... in order to get to skiing like this:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_7BAmdolYkPw/SD2IAtPPEtI/AAAAAAAADq8/BRPijfghJbo/s800/2g%20Jonathan.JPG


But the need to shim a full bellows, combined with ski crampon compatibilty issues, well, I like the DyNA approach better.

So with Scarpa, Dynafit, and La Sportiva having their own distribution channels, and PG selling directly, is your friend involved with . . . ARA Components? Or do you mean that your friend has other involvement with La Sportiva from climbing and hence has access to their availability-to-be-determined Stratos boot:

http://www.lasportiva.com/Magazine2007/Images/Stratos/Stratos.jpg
drewvw
10-24-2009, 02:07 PM
Well done...yes he used to work for one of those companies you mentioned and thus is still connected but he's all secretive about it.


Now I'm off to Portsmouth to make the most of this rainy day.
icelanticskier
10-24-2009, 02:09 PM
Other way around -- one of the biggest AT boots out there comes stock with Booster Straps:

http://content.backcountry.com/images/items/large/SCR/SCR0100/ONECOL.jpg


And Booster Straps are a very common upgrade on alpine downhill plug boots -- I have them on my Dobies.


for dynafit, then they'd surely be sweet for my lace up xc boots. like putting a small block 8 in a chevette.

tuck those things away would ya? almost as bad as gaper gap.:D

rog
clg898
10-24-2009, 10:37 PM
GP, that's a heck of a shot. I absolutely love the composition. What did you use for a lens? A very nice wide angle? Would love to know what you were using to capture that shot.
icedtea
10-25-2009, 08:10 AM
Did rain blast through VT last night?
gpetrics
10-25-2009, 10:14 AM
GP, that's a heck of a shot. I absolutely love the composition. What did you use for a lens? A very nice wide angle? Would love to know what you were using to capture that shot.

which shot?... the one of jonathan?

if so that's sam's shot, and he was using the nifty fifty canon lens... 80$ or so and unbelievably sharp
ILOVE2SKI
10-25-2009, 12:02 PM
Just bought your calendar FYI

:)
samthaman
10-25-2009, 01:51 PM
Just bought your calendar FYI

:)

awesome, thanks!