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Atman

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16. A snowboarder can just take off his board. Our boots are like big sneakers.

Reply to hatrack (Reply #12)

Fri Apr 4, 2014, 01:49 PM

Apr 2014

I see that it is damned near impossible to walk in ski boots. It's why I have Flow step in bindings...flip the heel down and I'm out. When I hit a flat spot I can just step out of the bindings and walk. Skiers can't do that because of the way ski boots are built.

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Court rules that snowboarders have no right to PUBLIC land. [View all] Atman Apr 2014 OP

Since you and I pay for federal land we can do what ever we upaloopa Apr 2014 #1

I doubt the government is operating the lift. jberryhill Apr 2014 #3

It is the ONLY Federally-leased land which bans snowboarding. Atman Apr 2014 #6

No, it's not analogous to an interstate jberryhill Apr 2014 #9

" Snowboarding is an activity, not an identity." Atman Apr 2014 #14

how did you come to that conclusion? frylock Apr 2014 #10

Yes, it is a ridiculous, bullshit, arbitrary rule. jberryhill Apr 2014 #13

"You pay for it. I pay for it." jberryhill Apr 2014 #2

Bigger question malaise Apr 2014 #4

I don't know much about Alta... jberryhill Apr 2014 #5

LOL! You should hear us snowboarders talk about how skiers "move." Atman Apr 2014 #8

That's the point, though jberryhill Apr 2014 #11

"...it seems there is a lot of sitting involved in learning how to do it." Atman Apr 2014 #15

"If you'd just point your skis down the mountain and ski" jberryhill Apr 2014 #17

But it is a point. Atman Apr 2014 #18

No, there is not. Atman Apr 2014 #7

Alta has some loooong flats and traverses, some uphills to boot hatrack Apr 2014 #12

A snowboarder can just take off his board. Our boots are like big sneakers. Atman Apr 2014 #16