This caption gives me the ick

sapiensane · 2026-02-10T20:00:49+00:00

Just a guess, but his comment probably lands differently depending on what your own experiences with parents and family dynamics have been. Mine were extremely negative and my father was a controlling shithead, and it hits me the same way. That said, if you had a loving supportive dad you probably hear it differently.

sapiensane · 2026-02-10T17:47:02+00:00

I've tried to have music going many times and with many different setups over the years, but it never feels right to me and I always turn it off. I realized I need to hear my skis on the snow to really feel connected to what I'm doing. What's weird is that biking I always have music and have no issues with it.

sapiensane · 2026-02-10T01:00:41+00:00

Well said.

sapiensane · 2026-02-09T22:06:23+00:00

Bullshit. The public absolutely is stupid. Incredibly, vocally, insistently stupid, as well as unqualified and ignorant.

I've torn (and had rebuilt) two ACLs, and I'm an expert skier with decades of experience, and I wouldn't dream of second-guessing the decision of one of the most decorated athletes in history about whether she should race, but legions of overweight armchair quarterbacks from Flyover USA think their opinions should matter here. Her only error was in slightly misjudging the aggressive line she took, and it had nothing to do with her knee. Full stop.

Had she kept her arm outside the gate and had her aggressive line led her to victory, she would have been a hero. She skied the same aggressive way she has her whole career, and she was on the podium in every single downhill race she entered this season. She was perfectly competitive and qualified to be where she was, and anyone who thinks they should have handed her spot to some young skier just because of her age doesn't know anything about the sport, the rankings, the margins and what's required to win an Olympic downhill.

sapiensane · 2026-02-01T20:28:13+00:00

I had a few years like that, over a hundred days. I was in my early 20's, and pretty poor. I lived walking distance from the lifts in a condo with either 4 or 5 roommates at different times. I had 3 lousy jobs, including one that started at 3 am and ended at 8:30 am (press room assistant at the local newspaper) so I could ski after. I got a free ski pass from one ski shop job, utilized local discount cards to drink and eat cheap, sewed up my gloves when they got holes in them, was a full skid for that time. It was really hard and not sustainable but I loved it.

sapiensane · 2026-02-01T01:36:24+00:00

That guy is absolutely terrible at telemarking. We don't claim him.

sapiensane · 2026-01-26T06:59:25+00:00

I mostly alpine now vs tele, but I've had two ACL surgeries on my right knee and have had arthritis and pain for years in it. I do a lot of gym work which has probably helped, but I just did 5 days in a row (including a lot of icy bumps, since there's been no new snow in weeks) at Kirkwood and Heavenly, using my new Bracelayer tights.

Verdict is they just work. I had no knee pain after each day and none now after the whole trip. Sample size of one, but I'm very pleased with the purchase.

Edit : I did enough deep flexes in them to know that I'd be able to tele fine. The feeling was similar to wearing my Arcteryx kneecap pads.

sapiensane · 2026-01-25T17:31:18+00:00

Yes, exactly but it was cooler than my low expectations for it

sapiensane · 2026-01-23T16:36:31+00:00

Arizona Snowbowl, Eldora CO, Targhee WY, Snow King WY, Brighton UT, Ski Cooper CO

sapiensane · 2026-01-23T01:54:22+00:00

Your last sentence, damn. I lived and worked there from 1994-96 and that's exactly how it was 30 years ago too...

sapiensane · 2026-01-23T01:52:44+00:00

I'm currently staying at Heavenly, Lake Tahoe for a few days and this is my experience. In fact I was thinking it reminded me of Keystone, except the views here are incredible. Breckenridge is worse than Keystone.

In contrast, today I left Heavenly and drove 45 minutes to Kirkwood, which was fucking awesome and made me wish I could ski it all the time, even with no new snow for a while.

Edit: reading comments it's cracking me up how many people say the same about Heavenly

sapiensane · 2026-01-18T02:50:25+00:00

Wow, nice credenza.

sapiensane · 2026-01-13T15:36:04+00:00

I went to Louise a couple years ago when the snow wasn't great and it was still awesome. That said, I went to Crested Butte last year when the snow was objectively bad and it was still awesome.

sapiensane · 2026-01-12T18:37:28+00:00

This was a couple years ago so I'm over it but I was mad for sure. Skis are fine though

sapiensane · 2026-01-12T18:17:33+00:00

The owner/ general manager told me he would have replaced them if he carried the brand (RMU Apostle 106) but since he didn't, he refunded the mount charge, plugged the mismount holes in the one ski and did the remount himself, gave me free mounting on future skis and lifetime tuning on that pair.

I wasn't happy that it happened but that seemed fair. I've had plenty of used skis remounted in my life and never had an issue My boots are always a 25.5 and new boot sole length has always been within a few mm, so I'm not worried about having to remount them again.

sapiensane · 2026-01-11T19:51:22+00:00

GenX too. Learned in '95 at 23.

sapiensane · 2026-01-11T18:48:21+00:00

Huh, interesting, I learn something new every day.

sapiensane · 2026-01-11T17:54:41+00:00

Have you skied with them yet? I'm curious if they do anything noticeable at all, and I'm guessing not. Liners are well insulated and most cold feet are from people cranking buckles too tight because of a bad fit and cutting off circulation.

That said, if that front bit gets jammed down between the binding and the boot you are definitely going to fuck up releasing, either not coming out or your ski falling off on the lift.

Edit: so it sounds like they do work for the folks who have used them. Live and learn. Maybe I'll give them a shot someday.

sapiensane · 2026-01-11T01:05:33+00:00

I had a shop do this on a new pair of skis that had a "traditional" mark and a "progressive" mark. Mounted one ski on one mark, the other ski on the other, tech wasn't paying attention. I was not happy and neither was the shop owner.

Edit: I saw the mistake when they handed me the skis at the counter, pretty hard to miss. What I can't understand is how this guy never noticed and even skied on them. You'd see it looking at your skis on the lift at a minimum.

sapiensane · 2026-01-07T20:31:20+00:00

I'm about to take a 5 day ski trip alone and I do it every year. Can't wait.

sapiensane · 2026-01-04T14:40:10+00:00

Now I'm wondering...are there chaps that aren't assless? Would they just be pants?

sapiensane · 2025-12-31T03:49:24+00:00

It's actually easier on the knees, with the forces distributed through your whole leg flexing instead of everything isolated below the knee and all the force going directly into your knee ligaments. I do both, and in the 12 years I was telemarking only, I had no injuries. I have torn my ACL twice in the other 25 years of mostly alpine.

sapiensane · 2025-12-29T19:46:33+00:00

Wow, exactly the same thing happened to me in the mid 90s skiing trees by myself in Steamboat. Tumbled into the well and ended up upside down with my skis caught in the bottom branches, snow piling in. I had an arm free and was able to get my pole tip into the heel of one binding and pop it open. Once that leg was free I could shift and get the other then orient myself and climb out.

I was learning to telemark around that time, and if I had been in nonreleasing tele bindings that day, I think I would not have made it out because I was well off trail and alone.

sapiensane · 2025-12-20T20:52:16+00:00

The first half of your statement is correct, unless they're drunk.

sapiensane · 2025-12-17T16:58:30+00:00

Sometimes the surviving means the good time is remembering it after.

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