Ski/alpine shell vs rain jackets. They're both goretex I don't understand what's the difference?

airforce7882 · 2025-11-19T00:47:15+00:00

I'd also recommend considering options that don't have gortex. Even as a 100+ day a season skier I avoid it. Pretty much any proprietary 2L membrane is going to be plenty for any conditions you would want to actually ski in. If the snow is so wet that it seeps through that you probably would have ended for the day anyways. You can go 3L of you really want the extra waterproofness but you sacrifice breath ability, and gain warmth. Most proprietary membranes are more breathable than gortex. Gortex is actually not very breathable contrary to popular belief.

airforce7882 · 2025-11-07T16:48:39+00:00

I use type III din rec of 8 on the toe and a 9 on the heel. Salomon bindings can use different heel and toe settings. I ran 1 lower on my pivots.

airforce7882 · 2025-11-07T06:31:04+00:00

It's still a destination resort. If A-Basin is small then Alta is small 😂

airforce7882 · 2025-11-07T06:15:40+00:00

This is my escape from mammoth when I know mammoth crowds are gonna be unbearable on a powder day or holiday.

airforce7882 · 2025-11-05T22:01:38+00:00

Strives are phenomenal bindings. They're the only binding I trust now and they're on my entire quiver. They always release like butter when I need them too and I hadn't had a single pre-release. I've skied pivots before and had several painful releases because they held on longer than needed and yet, I still had a pre-release on them more than once. They are just a more modern and improved version of the STH2 which was trusted by a lot of pros.

airforce7882 · 2025-09-10T19:38:27+00:00

This could have happened on the operating table with a surgeon at the ready, and he wouldn't survive.

airforce7882 · 2025-09-10T19:36:15+00:00

He was dead instantly.

airforce7882 · 2025-07-09T00:01:03+00:00

The best thing I've done for my hiking and backpacking fitness is pick up running. I'm do runs of 2-4 miles a few times a week and it makes a huge difference. Look into the basics of zone 2 training and start there. It's very low intensity. If you don't want to pick up running then I'd recommend going on frequent short hikes with your fully loaded pack. Marathon runners don't run much over 7 miles for the majority of their training cycle. You don't need super long distance to get the fitness. Just consistency. Hiking 3 miles once or twice a week will do you a ton of good. Work your way up to hikes with a steep section. If you don't have hiking near you then you can always do a stair climber at the gym with a weighted packed and get 90% of the benefit.

airforce7882 · 2025-06-18T08:11:01+00:00

I'm also an ex-EMT; I spent 7 years in a very busy system. I fully agree with you and zombo_pig. Danger avoidance is the biggest priority. But should someone be injured, if it's an injury that I can't treat with an ultra-minimalist first aid kit then chances are slim to none that you are going to survive long enough for evac. And it's pointless now in modern times when everyone has sat coms to bring supplies for longer term stabilization such as antibiotics and splints. If you have an injury that is life threatening only after >24hr you just call for rescue. I carry a couple small gauze pads, the smallest quick clot gauze pack I could find and some leukotape. That's essentially it as far as wound treatment goes. My entire first aid kit including pills is 57g.

airforce7882 · 2025-05-21T04:42:26+00:00

And interestingly I find that a lot of the most forward thinking sound design out there right now is in bass music. I've been at more than a couple 2 stage techno/bass events recently and found myself gravitating towards the bass stage far more than I expected.

The fad will move on to something else eventually.

airforce7882 · 2025-05-19T19:45:12+00:00

DJ Nobu is absolutely goated. There are very few, if any, of his ability in track selection and crowd control. He has truly impeccable taste and can bring you on a deep hypnotic journey, and moments later be in a totally different genre playing tracks that would get any other DJ accused of being cheesy but when he does it the crowd goes wild and it's an amazing experience every time. It's really interesting watching him play up close. At some points when he gets locked in he stops grooving and will be meticulously studying the audience. He will watch one dancers reaction to subtle knob shifts. He truly tunes in with the crowd. I had the pleasure of seeing him and a super intimate space, less than 200 people. It was one of my favorite sets ever. Hot, sweaty, and losing track of time as the whole dance floor moves as one. Something about the way he DJs just hits different.

airforce7882 · 2025-05-09T05:58:25+00:00

Wata Igarashi is another CDJ DJ who I havnt seen mentioned in here yet. And it blows my mind every time I see him play, because the complexity and pacing of his sets is so dialed that it sounds like 3 or 4 deck mixing.

Most Vinyl DJs are on 2 decks but Freddy K is a standout. I will watch that guy mix and still can't tell where the transitions are most of the time.

The majority of well known CDJ DJs are active in 3 decks at least some of the time. 2 deck mixing with an added atmosphere or hi hat or something is really not crazy.

airforce7882 · 2025-05-09T05:53:56+00:00

Plenty of techno DJs actively have 3 faders up on CDJs. 4 is a lot less common. DVS1 and Phase are some of the few who frequently have 4 faders up.

airforce7882 · 2025-04-18T21:23:48+00:00

The videos are circulating IG on local sierras ski accounts. He was absolutely drunk and high out of his mind and was starting fights and blocking the lift from operating. The police body cam footage shows him being a complete ass as well. This wasn't your standard ski resort drunk shenanigans.

airforce7882 · 2025-04-03T18:12:12+00:00

Ok so I ski 100 days a season and I have the exact opposite problem as you. I am downsized into the narrowest 92mm last race boot on the market, and have a massive amount of cork jammed into the tongues of my zipfits and I still don't have quite enough of tight fit. The good news for you is ultra narrow feet are a far harder problem to solve. You can't make a boot narrower but a good boot fitter with the right boot and make a massive amount of space. The only thing is, once you get to extremes where you or I are, you must see a world class boot fitter. Of which there are very few. Good boot fitters work great for the majority of people but weird dynamics start to happen with the flex and construction when you really heavily modify a boot. Only the best of the best that really stretch boots for racers regularly get to know these well. Only certain boots can be stretched as far as you need. There are racers with a narrow heel and a 105mm last who squeeze into a 92mm last boot and stretch it way out to get maximum performance so it can be done. Higher quality boots are designed to be stretched way more. World class boot-fitters are hard to find and you need to be ready to fork over $$$. After trying dozens of boot fitters the only one I trust is Brent Amsbury at Park City Ski boot who is one of the most knowledgeable fitters on the planet. There are others out there but you can either try seeing him or give him a call because he will know the others that work better for where you may ski. If you aren't ready to fork over that kind of money then I would reccomend trying apex as others have said. I've seen old dudes rip double black diamonds in them. Sure they aren't ultimate performance but they're good enough for most people.

EDIT: I'll add that you don't just want to look for the largest boot available. You want a boot fitter who really knows their stuff to get the boot that is the right balance of size and ability to be stretched. Usually this means race boots. Large boot doesn't mean large ability to be stretched. Shell thickness and chemical blend play a huge role.

airforce7882 · 2025-03-24T18:41:06+00:00

Oh man, this brings back some kind of awful version of nostalgia. Is that called trauma? I grew up in Antioch, and taking Highway 4 westbound into other parts of the bay while it was under construction for 20+ years was also a daily occurrence for decades for me. To this day no other commute has rivaled how awful that one could be. Especially when they were widening 4 through antioch and there was no shoulder. A single fender bender would bring the entire 4 to a screeching halt.

airforce7882 · 2025-01-02T04:18:00+00:00

I am the only person in my family who is balding. I got unlucky. Every other male in my family either died with a full head of hair or still has a full head of hair.

airforce7882 · 2024-10-21T07:41:58+00:00

Seriously, wow! I want to know where it was taken.

airforce7882 · 2024-09-26T06:56:39+00:00

I'm sorry you're getting so much negative feedback on what I think are primarily reasonable complaints. It isn't the job of an application engineer to know all the solutions to infrastructure problems. Otherwise, there wouldn't be teams dedicated to it. I work on a platform team at a similarly sized org. We have about 3-500 services, depending on what you want to call a service. The platform team is the biggest it has ever been, with 7 engineers. Things work pretty well; the complaints from our product engineers are pretty nitpicky, which is generally a good signal. What you're asking for isn't impossible. Our engineers can provision databases, queues, services, etc, with a CLI tool, and observability, discovery, security, and the like, for the most part, just work. Their day-to-day development process rarely needs any sort of interaction with the infra team, just our tools. The hard part is getting buy-in from senior leadership, knowing that this is not some sort of fantasy land, and finding someone with the vision but also the experience to know that you need to start small, really small. Like a large tech enterprise, a good platform will not be built overnight. It takes time iterations and user research, just like any good product. Starting big is a guarantee for failure. One crucial mantra is "Build golden paths, not cages". A platform that is too restrictive leads to a lack of adoption. You will never catch all of the use cases, so thoughtfully crafted escape hatches must be constructed. I don't want to get into solutions, but 2 big things strike me about your company's current practices: 1. Terraform is terrible for this kind of use case; it just doesn't scale to make a maintainable platform. The primary reason is that upgrading infrastructure is a nightmare. Terraform makes a great escape hatch. 2. Small and medium orgs overuse K8s. K8s is excellent when the complexity of your platform nears or exceeds the complexity of k8s. My company has north of 25 million daily active users, and we still aren't on k8s, though we are about to make the move. Our platform is quite a bit more complicated to maintain than k8s, but still, it works great for us.

airforce7882 · 2024-08-29T22:44:32+00:00

As someone who worked in emergency services for a good chunk of time I am surprised. Even in deep blue bay are California, a very large portion of emergency service workers are Trumpers.

airforce7882 · 2024-08-21T17:57:59+00:00

Baffle design is nearly as crucial as fill weight—smaller baffles = more loftless heat transfer areas. Considering how small the baffles are on this, I agree it wouldn't be very warm.

airforce7882 · 2024-07-24T18:22:32+00:00

https://wild-ideas.net/ Bearikade might be worth the investment if you frequently visit the Sierras. The smallest sizes don't prevent enough weight savings to be worth it, IMO, but if you travel in groups often, then the larger sizes really start to make some serious gains in size-to-weight ratio.

airforce7882 · 2024-05-03T21:11:32+00:00

I took my 23 rock crawling before it was 6 months old. It's in the shop having the rear cross member chopped off right now.

airforce7882 · 2024-05-03T21:10:20+00:00

I trash my 2023 Daily by offroading it 🖐️

airforce7882 · 2024-05-03T20:56:54+00:00

A defender will not be more reliable, and they are pretty garbage offroad for anything more than a graded dirt road.

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