J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ise

iLoveSkiing wrote:
Bandit, There's a big difference. Your ones have the waterproof gore-tex GTX XCR lining. The less expensive ones in the link you posted are the ones I bought end of last season for just under £50 from rip101. The seams are definately not waterproof on my Hestras, tested under a running tap, and there is no waterproof insert.

that's correct, it's probably why they're not recommended for snowboarding, I use mine boarding occasionally and they get soaked.

bandit wrote:ise I'm gutted, the price of these gloves has come down :shock:

I think that's a brilliant price actually, the cheapest I've ever seen them. A complete bargain at the price.

bandit wrote:
ise How are you mashing your toggles? I'm almost afraid to ask :shock:

I can't really recall, I wear them so much that stuff happens, treading on them, catching them between the skis when I carry the skis and stuff.

ironically, I have the wrong gloves, I wanted the detachable inners and ordered the wrong pair, that was three years ago and I'm expecting it'll be a couple more years until I can justify buying the pair I actually wanted.

Dave Mac wrote:Good question Tony, and from my point of view timely, since I finished last season with gaffa tape holding the thumb sections together, rather like Pavel's. These gloves lasted 5/6 years, mebbe 30 weeks skiing. That works out at a £/year. Outrageous.

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10) Never look at the brand, if it meets the specification. There is no reason to.

11) No more than £30, top whack. Anything above this signifies rich daddy. If you pay more than this, it just encourages the bu..ers to put up prices. Vive la revolution.

that rather proves what bandit suggested, Hestra (pro range only) make far better value gloves, my gloves have more days than that and are still in perfect condition without any tape on them, I keep breaking the toggles and having to put new ones on but the gloves are still perfect. bandit has the newer model to me which are slightly nicer and only 62 quid according to google :

http://www.skimarket.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=372

otherwise I use some Marmot alpine climbing gloves when I need to handle ropes or climbing gear and pop some Haglöf shell mittens over the top if it's a bit windy.

an equilateral triangle is an equilateral triangle regardless of the length of the two equal sides, if your poles are 120cm or 300cm the angles are still 45'

half of 45 is 22.5 but this is a tan() function not a linear scale.

and no in answer to your other question ) )

tino_11 wrote:Far cheaper and more accurate:

and for the skier, something I posted before :

& I should also say, you can do this with your ski poles and, a bit of our old favourite, trigonometry

Put one pole vertically in the snow, put the other pole touching and at a right angle to first pole pointing up hill. Now move the horizontal pole down until the uphill end touches the snow.

Now you've a right angled triangle (the 90' is where the poles touch) with the hypotenuse formed by the slope itself. Now just do the maths

Seriously though.... you'll work out that if the horizontal pole is at the top of the vertical pole then you've formed a triangle with equal sides, and you'll remember from school that must mean the slope is 45'. Some other angles are :

1:1/2 ~27'
1:3/4 ~37'
1:1 = 45'

Over 45' and we move the horizontal pole horizontally, when half its length is moved you're looking at around 63'

You can put some tape on your ski poles and/or write on them to remember this as my handy hint of the day

Ian Wickham wrote: My new Suunto S6 arrived today, could not wait until Thursday to open it, it was also relatively
easy to set up.

Did you now my stairs at home are a 25 degree gradient !!!! :lol:

that's surprising, building regulations suggest your stairs are going to be around 1:12, 25 degrees would be around 1:4 if my maths are right in which case the council can come around and demolish your house )

on a course last week we concluded that the rule :

to err is human, to really screw up takes a computer

has a mountain corollary of

to get lost is human, to really screw up you need a GPS

deandpw1975 wrote:Thanks for that, at the mo they are in my ski bag next to the bed but by a radiator, and now the heating is on i guess i should move them asap, is it ok to store them in the bag,
I havent gone as far as stroking them yet but i do get hem out and admire them every couple of days... :D

good idea, that's about the worse place you could keep them. Skis like similar places to wine so pop them in the wine cellar ...... I assume everyone does have a wine cellar?

bandit wrote:

ise wrote:

Wanderer wrote:Posh is so thin now, you would be afraid to let her up the mountain in case she blew away :twisted:.

it could happen, I was up on Cairngorm last week and I nearly blew away :D

Well, there is less of you than there used to be, you'll just have to buy heavier boots to compensate :D

to be fair I was a bit stripped for speed as well but it was a little brutal