"You can buy that freedom for $90 a day" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR-Sk3bnNhQ That was 1983. Inflation-adjusted, that is $271 USD today. So a resort ticket is already more expensive than cat skiing was 40 years ago. In 1983, you could book 5 days of heli-skiing from CMH for $1,370 USD: https:...

Being a hobby historian of the events, I take into account the chronology of events happening and factor in human nature. Sacrificing everything, business, family and life, to defy the SS at that time before the Holocaust was known would be abnormal behavior IMHO. To quote Daniel Goldhagen, "Not on...

Question.My wife's family owned a restaurant in Timmerlah. Every day a Jewish man ate dinner alone reading the paper. A few miles was Braunschweig, where the SS had one of the first SS-Junker Schools for leadership training. One day an SS came to the restaurant and told them they could no longer se...

My wife's cousin was in the SS and lost on the Eastern Front so I've done a bit of research as WWII is my hobby. IMO, the media blew the real story with that Uke Nazi soldier. No one wanted to be "liberated" by Russian troops who they were historically at war with. There is a lot of creative fictio...

Quality mogul skiing at Kagura ski resort:

That is very cool. Thank you for posting that article @DropKneeDiehard. How well do pedal hop turns work with a free heel?

Follow-up review: I suspected something was going on with this setup because the topsheets were in such bad condition compared to the bases and edges. The misgivings turned out to be well-founded. The tips of the skis were "hooky" in two different ways. One was where they hooked the snow and made th...

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I have tested more recently and talked with other owners, that many prefer a mount 3cm back from the usual 455-rule mount location. This is to counteract the stiffer tip (compared to Järvinen)

What is the 455 rule?

@Inspiredcapers hope your leg is healing well!

I wonder what the pros/cons of the Peltonen Metsä vs Altai Kōm for trail-breaking are. It would be fun to do a head-to-head race...

Some telemark YouTube channels from Japan where people have been posting interesting videos this season, that I have not seen mentioned before: Telemark Ski Association Of Japan has a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TelemarkSkiAssociationOfJapan/videos Backcountry telemark skiing in Hokkai...