The third weekend of November, I flew to Ottawa, ON for the 3rd annual meeting of the Canadian Chapter – Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society. I spent most of the weekend working at the front desk checking people in for the conference. The second day was focused on dive medicine and I gave a presentation[…]
November has been a bit slow for getting out in the mountains. Between car troubles and the unending rain with a cold thrown in to mix things up, I have not gotten out much. Snow is just starting to settle into the mountains for real and things are starting to open up. Early in the[…]
Dynafit designed the TLT 5 Mountain boot with the widest possible range of users in mind. Three key ideas seem to drive the design of the boot. Fast and light skimo mentality keeps the weight down, adequate stiffness to ensure excellent downhill performance, and materials that keep price reasonable for athletes on a budget.With a[…]
Part of Alpina’s Glacier line, the Tibet MT is a comfortable pair of ski/alpine sunglasses. Packaged with a solid feeling case, out of the box they were lightweight. The frame seems to be primarily plastic giving it a slightly less solid feel. This is compounded by the fact that the side blinders are not completely fixed[…]
Most skimo race skis have a notch in their tips for skis to attach to. This allows racers to quickly rip the skins in a transition without taking off the skis. Race skis have an elastic attachment at the tip and no attachment at the tail – in fact, they are usually cut well short[…]
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I have never had snow on my birthday but Friday night, after celebrating with Sarah, it started to snow in the mountains. Saturday morning we woke up to snow low on the north shore and even saw a bit down in the valley during a run. I had to wait until Wednesday for a full[…]
Plum is a French skimo binding company that produces several solid looking products. Among their all metal bindings (no plastic bits to worry about breaking) is their race series, the flagship of which is the Race 145. The name of course refers to the weight of one binding in grams. Certainly in the same league[…]