Well Rottefella turned the boots around fast -- I sent them in Monday afternoon and got them back on Friday. To butter me up a bit, they sent me goodies -- a very nice merino wool hat, a steel water bottle, and a pair of ski straps, the latter two with the the rather inane Rottefella Explore motto: ...

One of the spring pins in my one-week old Alfa Frees jammed after I took off my skis to peel skins at the top of a run last Sunday. Fortunately I was only going to ski some trees along side one of the steeper xc trails in Bymarka, the city forest near my home. After I tracked down the problem I took...