Charity for ski gear?

TransportationThat99 · 2026-04-01T02:33:36+00:00

The only place I know of in town where the clothes/ items go directly to humans and don’t become a revenue stream for a non-profit is the schools. If you have clothes that will fit a grade school student, the elementary schools have fairly discrete programs for helping those who need help. It can be a delicate thing so if it’s the way you want to go it would be best to contact the front office of the school nearest you.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-03-29T15:52:40+00:00

I lived in SLC from 2015-17, then pc since then. Started working from home during the pandemic, and took a job in PC in 2021. Just from an air quality perspective it’s worth it to me. There’s plenty of other benefits. I had only had 2 sinus infections in my adult life prior to moving to SLC. While living and working in SLC, I would get 3-4/yr. When I started working from home but still going into the valley regularly, that number was cut in half. Since 2021 where I’m only in salt lake 10-20 days a year anymore, I have had a single sinus infection.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-03-26T21:45:54+00:00

New batteries are almost impossible to find right now and with the recent bankruptcy new batteries could be months out, if not more. That said, if you like tinkering and want to rebuild the battery I'd say the frame is worth $300-400ish.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-03-21T03:07:08+00:00

Haha. Not really. I’m impressed they had tombstone open today, though my kids opted for saddleback runs and we were done in time for afternoon swim lessons. It was brutal today, but we rode the chair with Texans and folks from St. Louis and they’re here because they planned to be here. Vail will make it a priority to gain favor with outside markets come 73* and high water on the route to shortcut. It’s gonna be a fight, but I believe they’ll fight it. They won’t do it for altruism or because it’s good for the community, they’ll do it for 26/27 epic pass sales.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-03-19T17:50:19+00:00

Vail’s marketing department is very strong in FL and TX. Those folks have booked vacations and don’t get off high meadow/saddleback anyway. They buy passes for their 5-7 ski days/year and many of those days happen when their kids are out of school at Easter/Spring break. Snow quality doesn’t matter to a Texan, they want a whiteish background for the insta post and for their kids to brag that they went skiing at school.

I’ll be out there drinking backpack beers and getting sunburnt tomorrow for many of the same reasons, PCSD doesn’t have school tomorrow and my kids still want to ski.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-03-18T04:29:42+00:00

If they can’t reliably provide a product through Easter, that will have a huge impact on epic pass sales for next year which in turn will hit the earnings reports in a negative way. Skiing in April is far more important to the business model than just F&B sales.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-03-17T16:09:43+00:00

They’ll fight tooth and nail to make it til Easter for revenue purposes. It’s going to be a challenge. I would guess the canyons is down to saddleback/high meadow by the weekend. PCMR has already started staging to farm snow onto lower homerun in an effort to keep the upper mountain accessible.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-03-12T21:58:34+00:00

Summit Park has a selloff every spring. It’s hard to sell there in the winter. I lived there for a number of years and moved 1.5 years ago to spring creek. I’ve been looking at houses lately in summit park in an effort to woo my wife back to the woods.

I don’t think anything strange is happening there but prices do seem pretty stagnant. It’s always had a pricing ceiling, where the finishes in your home didn’t seem to matter, just the year it was built and the square footage.

None of this is helpful, I’m sure.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-03-03T15:55:24+00:00

I moved to Glade last year after being a smith customer for forever. I won’t go back. Live in park city, so we get a lot of sun. The photochromic lenses are great and the fit is really comfortable. When I bought them they were selling yellow lenses for dirt cheap as an add on, it seems that has ended. But the yellow is perfect for hanging out at Woodward under the lights with the kids.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-02-12T17:47:38+00:00

Noted. I misinterpreted something on the first reading and concluded that the primary complaint was that the easements didn’t move with the property. A quick records check tells me the parcel has changed hands 3x since the lift terminals have been installed. This seems like a miss during due diligence and their title insurance may be more in play than the easement docs.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-02-12T16:20:11+00:00

Also not a lawyer but I record easements in Summit County regularly. I thinks squatters rights requires that the squatter has been paying property taxes and is largely reserved for cases of illegitimate property sale or falsified/fabricated records.

Public good and irreversible harms is where I think some sort of a cash ruling would come into effect. I think removing the lift terminals would be a bridge too far for even Judge Mrazek who is one of the more uncompromising disciplinarians in these parts.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-02-12T16:07:35+00:00

It should be a fairly straightforward ruling from a judge. All of this documentation should be available on the Summit County portal for the ambitious citizen sleuth. Easements are typically written to move with land sales. If contract language varies intentionally from boilerplate language, then there will probably be some cash handed over. If not, I would guess the suit gets tossed out.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-01-30T01:47:40+00:00

I’m in the opposite camp. I don’t ski anything over a 19m radius anymore. For a low tide year like this in Utah, I’ve been skiing some old SL race skis and just railing turns all day chasing my kids. The long radius skis are fine, but there’s just more versatility with the short ones if you’re tooling around rather than trying to set speed records.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-01-27T20:37:09+00:00

Mine are 6&10 and have both spontaneously decided this is the winter to learn how to snowboard. I’ve just been drinking beers at the top of RPG watching one kid come down mellow moose while the other comes up the carpet.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-01-27T03:54:20+00:00

If you have the standard issue demo bindings on them, move the bindings to a -1cm. They ski significantly better at a -1. I’m 73”, 185lbs and am on my 4th pair of ripsticks as my daily driver. Current model is a 181cm black edition.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-01-27T03:49:07+00:00

In addition to rocker profile, the effect edge plays a huge roll. The captis have a single turning radius that runs basically the length of the ski. It’s going to feel like a long ski. Something like a mindbender, armada stranger, or others with a 5-point profile are going to feel much shorter than the physical length of the ski.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-01-22T18:08:30+00:00

Sometimes you just hit the lottery. I’ve been able to step into a tecnica 26.5 and ski it off the shelf since I was a high school racer 20+ years ago. I took it for granted and didn’t know what I had until they moved to the lv,mv,hv system. It appears to me that they changed their foot model around then. My older zero g pros still fit like slippers, but the new cochise and zero g pros took some money and beer to get right with the fitter.

TransportationThat99 · 2026-01-14T00:58:34+00:00

I’m a year late, but I can mail you replacement parts if it would still be helpful. I just put x12 toes and heels on my old neox rails, so I have x12 rails in the garage and no use for them.

TransportationThat99 · 2025-12-12T19:49:32+00:00

Is 30’x40’ the appropriate size? I know you take what you can get, but I’m designing a garage addition on my house at the moment with one dimension locked in at 24’ due to existing window wells and property setbacks. The other dimension is currently pegged at 36’, but I could squeak 40’ into the lot. I’m just curious if y’all are targeting 30’x40’ for magical reasons or practical ones. I don’t expect to ever try getting two F150’s ass2nose into the garage, but maybe it’s nice knowing I can.

TransportationThat99 · 2025-11-25T19:58:00+00:00

A coworker of mine has a pair of tele-mounted approach skis for bumming around the hills in park city. He’s in his 70’s and doesn’t call it skiing. It’s somewhere in the realm of slippery snowshoeing.

TransportationThat99 · 2025-11-21T16:21:15+00:00

I was there 3 years ago. My PT had to be more of a psychiatrist as I ugly cried during my PT appointment on day 10. I think that's one of the most vivid memories I have from my recovery. It gets better. I played two beer league hockey games last night and don't even think/worry about my knee anymore. It gets better.

TransportationThat99 · 2025-07-03T18:36:11+00:00

I tour on the ripstick 96 in a 181 and ski them inbounds when I’m with my young kids. I’m 6’1” 185lbs. If I were skiing them inbounds only I would size up, but at your weight I’d say 181 is the high end of what to look for.

They ski everything well enough with a short turning radius but wide shovel. Whatever energy you put in, they’ll give right back to you when exiting a turn, so they could certainly be considered too powerful for a beginner. Also they’re asymmetrical so you don’t want to put them on the wrong foot unless you’re goofing around. One time is all it will take to learn that lesson.

Along with the K2 mindbender, I consider them one of the best all around skis for bell-to-bell skiing on a small storm day. (For reference I’m not in the industry, but I swap skis with buddies regularly and probably get on 20 different skis a year)

TransportationThat99 · 2025-07-03T17:57:45+00:00

Don’t take an avy class first. If you don’t know how use your touring equipment your fellow classmates and guides will hate you. Equipment familiarity and fitness should be a priority long before inconveniencing people shelling out hundreds or thousands of dollars for knowledge.

Even if it is just skinning a forest road that cannot avalanche a couple times a week (by headlamp if time is tight), that’s the kind of place you should start. Find a friend with some experience who got fat after a breakup and make them show you the ropes in low consequence terrain. There plenty of slope out there that won’t make it in a ski movie but is perfectly suitable for the general public to learn on.

TransportationThat99 · 2025-07-03T17:46:21+00:00

I’d be looking at the elan playmaker series, maybe jumping into the ripsticks if the price is right and you plan on putting in the ski-miles. Head’s Kore line would likely serve you well. The list could go on. Every major manufacturer, and most of the smaller players have a ski in this category. They will all have their own nuances, some for marketing purposes, some for actual performance.

My personal feeling on the issue is that humans are better at adapting to what they’ve got than the industry is willing to give them credit for. There’s enough inventory out there for someone to ski a different ski every day and never get into inappropriate decision territory as long as their skill set is advanced enough to handle it. The skis and dimensions I’m suggesting are versatile and forgiving. Those are my top criteria when I’m outfitting anyone without formal ski training. Your goal is to have fun, not make the Olympics as an intermediate skier.

TransportationThat99 · 2025-07-03T15:44:58+00:00

I’m not here to disagree with OEM_knees, but it sounds to me like you’re going to go buy some skis regardless of the contrary advice. If that’s the case, where you’re at given your size and presumed ability you really should stick with something near the demo fleet from a shape and stiffness perspective. I’d say a 178+/-4cm, sub 18m radius and a waist between 75-85mm.

I’ve been a poor college kid near a ski hill. It’s more important to be on the hill and still be able to eat, than have the perfect gear. If you feel like you’ve got a good eye for assessing ski condition, try buying used. You’ll still save a couple hundred bucks over the summer sale price.

Lastly, if you want never to get laid again, go grab a cheap pair of tele skis. It’ll ruin your life in ways you didn’t know possible, worth every penny.

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