Canyon Tales

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Would rather be skiing!!
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“Working the boots,” aka jonsing hard!

At my home, I have been tripping over my boots daily next to my bed....

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Thanks for the response. For giggles, I opened and tried the iOS app (my post above). Now it won’t open. Back on the browser....

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Is the old app really working?



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Costco tire center called my 4 hrs before my appt yesterday to say they didn’t have my tires and they didn’t know where they were. They got me in touch with CS who stepped up and solved my problem. My tires were actually at the tire center but the paper work attached to the tires was missing. I...

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Supposedly, the blizzak ws90 have full (“the best”) winter rubber throughout the tread and their new multicell compound along the initial portion of the tread blocks. So extra squishy! Driving home tonight on moist tarmac and gravel and 40* ambient air temp, they didn’t feel too squishy....

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Unless I’m misremembering, the deal for the blizzak ws90 at Costco was really good ($480 including tax and installation) compared to the Michelins or anything i was seeing online or through my preferred local shop.

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Yall see the reported hard slab incident outta of Virginia Lakes? FYSA. https://www.esavalanche.org/observat...d-00cd73d25d69

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Being a sierra foothill person, we do not get a lot of miles out of our snow tires. I put Vikingcontact8’s on our fairly heavy minivan earlier than I would have normally preferred. That’ll be an interesting experiment. Putting some Costco blizzaks on our matrix tomorrow. I think the general artic’s...

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Yeah. I search now and see if in several news outlets. Argh.

still concerning....

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Anybody noticing the increase in nato airspace breaches by Russian drones in the past few months? it looks like a lot of the reporting is not in English language media. My mother mentioned it to me because I have a cousin stationed in romania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violations_o...

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RIP to another legend...

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I think there’s more video out now of the descent along with the other great Everest ski descent from this autumn. Both are yotally amazing!

i just read this entertaining description about one of the 1986 ascent/descents of the hornbein.
“In 1986, there were two superb "night...

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Where have you heard about the shell sizing. Best results would be to shell fit yourself if you can find some.

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A new installment of Canyon Tales has been posted.
https://www.canyontales.com/new/

For those uninitiated, Canyon Tales is an awesome anthology and collection of stories of exploration: “an effort to assemble some interesting canyon tales from several sources into one convenient...

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I was gonna say “beer league”

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I’m glad kirkwood is still allowing preseason access.

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I have been enjoying his double album release from this summer.

last night he performed “join ice” live on the late show
https://youtu.be/61I4hlig78w?si=zE2Z6f2YvLtP3BB9...

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Mostly new race skis, right?

fun and healthy obsession