Puma range is a lot more than 50 miles. Remember a few years ago one was documented walking from South Dakota to Connecticut (where it got run over by a car).

I should let greatgt respond himself, but… have watched him for decades, his style is more likely to be long sweeping arcs.
Also, with even back/front weighting, the wax pocket does not slow you down significantly, in my limited experience, on virgin powder (where I prefer to ski).

Are you sure that is limestone, and not dolomite (a recrystalized limestone containing magnesium). It is tue, like snow, rocks can also recrystalize.

Quoting Manney “ double cambered, stiffly sprung ski isn’t going to work well in the backcountry anyway” I cannot disagree more. The wax pocket formed by a double camber ski for back country, fresh virgin powder is specifically designed to allow the wax to stick as you step on that ski onthe way up ...

My female acquaintances inform me in no uncertain terms that the most important part of “car camping” is a private place to piddle in the middle of the night; without putting boots on. We set up our 4wd toyota sienna with a shelf bed and other sundries. I bought a $12 toilet seat that fits on a kitt...

“they’ll understand the conditions and course better than some guy with a John Deere hat and bib overalls who drives a tractor in the off season.‘
I resemble that remark… but drive my tractor winter and summer. BTW bib overalls are great at keeping snow out…

Trim them high and let them lie is my advice.
Hope to ski you all this winter

It is that time of year when I clear our the brush along my favorite backwoods trails. In our area, that mostly means using longhandled loppers to cut out the beech whips. I try to cut down to the ground surface and not leave “pungie” sticks that would trip me up later. Also, I trim back branches as...

I find on vermont ski area slopes my major issue is “booting out”; when I carve too steep an angle, the 3-pin binding hits the ice or hard snow; I lose the edge, and then the ski slips sideways. One solution is to make gentler turns; a second is to get a ski wider than the binding; a third is to put...

Hard to find latest binding.