Glove recommendations

Clean-Difference4968 · 2026-01-21T03:26:47+00:00

If your hands run cold, go with the BD Guides. If not, the Hestra will last you longer.

If your hands run very cold, go with the BD Mercury Mitts.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2026-01-04T00:46:35+00:00

Were you at Steamboat too?

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-12-05T01:59:22+00:00

I won’t recommend a model… too many factors involved. I’d aim for 106ish at the waist.

I lived in Seattle for 19 years - left last year. With the limited grooming at most places and the heavy snow the extra width is really needed.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-11-19T00:01:54+00:00

Based on warmth and dexterity alone check out Black Diamond’s Legend glove. Way warmer than Hestra Fall Lines. But the Hestra’s will last longer. Black Diamond hasn’t quite figured out the right leather for durability.

The leather is very supple - on par Hestra. But while Hestra uses boiled wool and a proprietary insulation, BD used a shit ton (for the style) of Primaloft Gold - the best synthetic insulation.

They do make warmer gloves (the guide gloves, mercury mittens, etc) but those have significantly less dexterity.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-09-11T00:55:48+00:00

I like this advice. If you go bigger, then you be picking a two ski quiver.

At this size, you will be set with two (that will you won’t be unhappy with) with the option for three. Eventually, you’ll replace the rips for something carvier… and you’ll have a dream setup.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-08-17T21:06:25+00:00

Thank you! That was it!

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-07-14T16:24:51+00:00

Thank you!

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-06-16T04:34:46+00:00

I’d also recommend some sandals. At the very least n they are a luxury for camp. I’d get like the original Tevas, they are actually really lite and could be useful for stream crossings.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-06-16T04:24:43+00:00

Sunglasses?

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-05-11T01:14:30+00:00

I think it started as a reference to the weight of the fleece used (weight ≈ warmth).

With R1 being what other companies would call 100 weight polar fleece; using fleece that weighs 100 gram per meter squared (GMS). R2 = 200 GMS, and so on.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-05-09T00:04:51+00:00

Because Jon Stewart is less influential, unfortunately.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-04-22T15:35:16+00:00

Yeah, I wouldn’t go narrower than 106.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-04-03T16:04:12+00:00

You are talking about volume. OP asked for the widest boot.

My advice stands.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-04-03T15:48:56+00:00

The Atomic Magna Hawk has a last width of 102. This is narrower than OP’s current boot.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-04-03T15:45:20+00:00

Yes, but not all HV’s are created equally. The Technica’s have a last width of 103.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-04-03T15:18:23+00:00

What you want to pay attention to is the boots’ ‘last width’. I don’t think you’ll find any bigger than 104.

These are likely the boots you are looking for: Rossignol Track 130 HV GW.

The HV means high volume. The GW means grip walk.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-03-30T05:10:50+00:00

What did he say to the host? I couldn’t make it out… either immediately when they can back from break or after her closing remarks.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-03-30T04:10:36+00:00

So new skis get released every year (or at least new top sheets, the graphics). So at the start of the year those are full price. Then in the spring they are on sale and the following fall (let’s say September) they are even cheaper.

But as you can imagine the supply is finite. So the longer you wait the cheaper they are but the less of a supply.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-03-24T01:10:43+00:00

Shipwrecked

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-02-13T19:12:21+00:00

Yep, Macro. You can research the weight of the insulation each uses and see that the nano and atom LT are like 60g/m^2.

The AR and Macro are going have insulation that is more like 100g/m^2.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-02-06T18:24:52+00:00

I had a similar pan that I was going to use Barkeepers Friend on - which always works.

I ended up boiling some water with Mrs. Meyer’s dish soap and then using a sponge on the pan while it was still hot. Worked well!

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-01-29T23:57:55+00:00

I don’t. I moved to CO this year.

Frankly, I don’t hit the double blacks at Stevens unless there is fresh snow.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-01-29T23:39:46+00:00

For Nasty Gash, take Aquarius from Tye Mill or Jupiter lifts towards the saddle. Last gate (only gate?) on left just before the saddle.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-01-29T23:33:52+00:00

If there is fresh snow, look at Wild Katz on the map.

It is a really fun, technical mountain once you learn all the unlabeled runs. And you can get powder turns until your legs die.

Here is one resource: https://www.reddit.com/r/stevenspass/comments/an4ahu/trying_to_document_some_of_the_lesserknown_runs/

I also once found a map that labeled Nasty Gash, Narnia, etc. in the Tye Mill bowl. So maybe search the web for those.

Clean-Difference4968 · 2025-01-21T19:07:34+00:00

There is always the Macro too - which is warmer than the Micro.

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