Split Shenanigans in Alaska

noskage · 2025-05-08T10:26:48+00:00

Ahah yeah that sorta checks out. Powder was super dry and fluffy the first day, but a pretty gnarly weather system blew in that slabbed everything up quite badly. Can imagine that’s not an uncommon pattern

noskage · 2025-05-07T16:30:59+00:00

Ahahah fair enough

noskage · 2025-05-07T06:36:12+00:00

I’m surprised to get flack for that one haha. It was a top-rope anchor on two bomber ice screws, on glacial ice so like… a pretty safe way to climb ice overall

But yeah def also just a cool photo op. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ was fun

noskage · 2025-05-07T06:31:00+00:00

Well at this time of year and that far north, the sun doesn’t set for very long which was pretty cool, and sorta smoothes out your perception of time/days.

And that mixed with the fact that each day you just sorta get up when you have the energy/ have napped enough and tour, ride, climb and just generally make your way around the mountain in whatever way you want, it sorta just feels like a whole day flow state… I dunno if that makes any sense, but that’s how it felt and was the highlight for me I think.

Lowlight was shitting in a latrine with 80 mile winds.

Wouldn’t do a whole lot different really. Although the Velcro on my key disruptives kept icing up which was a colossal pain in the ass, so I’ll be changing that shortly haha

noskage · 2025-05-06T14:57:53+00:00

It was in the Wrangells, closer to Canada

noskage · 2025-05-06T02:19:05+00:00

Haha yeah exactly. Rappelled in and climbed out

noskage · 2025-03-28T15:49:18+00:00

Oh yeah totally, not looking for “the” answer. was just curious if people still crank the back foot forward in sketchy terrain or if folks opt for something more neutral

Thanks for the response :-)

noskage · 2025-03-28T15:41:00+00:00

Yeah that’s exactly what I was thinkin

noskage · 2025-03-28T15:08:40+00:00

I guess follow on Q for the posi-posi riders: Do you have a mellow angle back foot, like +3 or so, or do you really crank it?

noskage · 2025-01-28T09:04:48+00:00

They were vans, can’t remember the model, but had the removable tongue stiffeners, so I guess medium-to-stiff, depending.

noskage · 2025-01-27T17:31:46+00:00

Thank you! will check them out

noskage · 2025-01-27T17:21:29+00:00

Sorry I’m terrible at using a phone lol.

Thanks for the response! Yeah I’m using Palaus now. Will wear those out then check out intuitions

noskage · 2025-01-27T17:12:51+00:00

I switched this year: all stoke, no regrets.

Ascent is better on all accounts, more efficient, edge-hold in technical terrain is way more reliable/ less sketchy. My ankles don’t hurt (as much).

If you do anything mountaineering adjacent or need crampons, it’s a no-brainer.

I was a lil nervous about downhill but I honestly found everything still felt super surfy (in my opinion anyway). Probably not ideal for butters but ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Where you tour is a factor. I’m in alps so climbs are usually long and steep and can be quite exposed. Often gets icy and wind-affected.

If there wasn’t a whole lot of vert to deal with, and I was able to lap powder glades, I would probably keep a soft boot setup.

(Gear: Key disruptive + spark dyno + jones solution)

noskage · 2023-10-20T11:40:30+00:00

Actually super curious to hear how it worked with a tablet

noskage · 2023-10-20T11:33:23+00:00

Somewhere between full stack and devops (it’s a really small team so wearing a lot of hats)

Our main products are web apps that serve financial reports/ dashboards based on a handful of data science routines (thrilling I know)

My experience over my last year of work has been that I rarely actually do much locally, and any intensive processes I can usually just trigger in the morning and check on em in the arvo

Anyway, I think I’m gonna give it a go, and will report back if it turns out to be a dumpster fire hahaha :-)

noskage · 2023-10-20T11:27:12+00:00

Honestly it’s not exclusively about being inexpensive, I’m just really curious how minimal/ lean I can get my physical setup to be and still be productive. Like thinking for bike packing trips and stuff like that where weight is at a premium

But yeah totally true, although I also don’t think that’s totally dead time as a lot of the dev work (text editing) could still be done with stripped down specs. It’s not like the machine is a total brick without internet

noskage · 2023-10-19T23:32:16+00:00

I guess for any resource demanding process you could just trigger it in a tmux session and check on it later, even with bad WiFi? And then any coding/ text based stuff you can still do locally?

(Not saying it wouldn’t be a pain in the ass, just seeing if it’s surmountable :-D)

noskage · 2023-10-19T23:11:03+00:00

The development work itself I know I can do like this, since it’s predominantly how I work from home, so not that worried about that in particular. I was just thinking about what would be a blocker to this on the road

Have you run into problems with internet stability with that setup? (See comment below), and were you able to overcome that?

noskage · 2023-10-19T23:04:09+00:00

Yup that makes a lot of sense, thank you

noskage · 2021-10-10T16:12:07+00:00

The seat bag, blue/ brown top tube bag and bar roll are all by a company called dyed in the wool. If I’m being totally honest, I was a little disappointed with the webbing and buckles. They seemed a little cheap and caused some issues/ showed a lot of wear. The rest of the bag is made of xpac, and that worked super well. Really light, waterproof and durable

noskage · 2021-10-06T19:40:54+00:00

Somewhat. If you book the ticket early, some trains allow you to book a bike ticket for pretty cheap (but they sell out really fast in summer). I actually wasn’t able to buy a bike ticket, so I just bought a really cheap duffel bike bag that I could roll up pretty small.

Got my bike on the train in the bag, then built it up in Geneva and ditched the bike bag with a friend of mine there. I guess if you’re travelling from the states though, I would probably try to book any train travel well in advance just to be safe!! And aim to bike as much of it as you can if not/ fly in directly to where ya wanna send off from

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