Archive for the 'Sports' Category

Irked by the fact that I didn’t have my randonnee setup, skins, and avi-gear in town (PDX) this weekend I went out and got a setup for PDX. I wanted to enter the Randonnee race up at Alpental, and think my winter sport will now be the Ski Mountaineering Race Series vs. the Freeskiing Competitions (which are too dangerous for my old blood these days - not to mention trying to keep up with insane 18-20 somethings is tough).

My current setup (in Park City) is the following:

• Salomon 175cm Pocket Rockets with Fritschi Freeride bindings accompanied by Black Diamond Ascension Nylon Clipfix skins, Mammut Barryvox Beacon, Backcountry Access Companion System Shovel/Probe system, and Technica Carbon Icon boot

The latest setup (didn’t dup the avi-gear setup yet, only so much to spend at the moment) I decided on is:

• Salomon 174cm TenEighty Foil ski with Naxo 01 bindings accompanied by Black Diamond GlideLite Nylon STS Skins, the same avi-gear (will have to cart that around), and Salomon Performa Equipe 9.0 boot
• BTW, there’s an AWESOME Naxo 01 review with supporting pages/info on Wildsnow.com

I am getting the setup mounted tomorrow or sometime next week… I am excited to test this setup out at Hood next week or the following week in Tahoe!!!

Well, since there isn’t an ipod phone yet, I decided to sell my ipod and stick with my Audiovox 5600 for now (it is 1GB mini-SD). I thought about buying a Shuffle, Nano, or a 30GB Video ipod, but why waste the $ when eventually Apple will come out with the uber phone hopefully… Plus I mainly would have used it for sports like skiing etc. where I have my cell with me anyway. I have stereo headphones/set/mic with the phone already so it’ll work… and it’ll be less stuff to carry around with me. AND when the Plantronics’s Versa comes to market I am all over it…

I can’t wait to try this - assisted heli. I was so excited when I read about it I wanted to
call and ask for a full-time job there.