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Outdoor Tech Helmet Audio Kits

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We are excited to carry the new Outdoor Tech Helmet Audio Kits. These fit great in the our Salomon Hacker Helmet series. You can choose between the wired kits or the new bluetooth wireless kits. Both are hands free and will play great sounding music as well as answer your phone when needed. The Bluetooth kit also comes with a walkie talkie so you can talk with those friends or family on the mountain (or anyone else you meet).

In addition, for helmets that are not audio compatible such as our Salomon Hacker helmets, you can get the new K-Roo pouch that converts the helmet so it will accept one of the two kits above. Nothing like tunes while you ride!

You can check them out on our website under the helmet/goggles section.

Summit Skiboards CRZ 106 cm Rocker – Personal Review

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Product Test: Summit Skiboards CRZ 106 cm Rocker – Personal Review. These Summit Skiboards were mounted with Salomon L10 Release Bindings. Having not ridden these before production I had some trepidation about whether these would perform as we had designed them. It was at Wolf Creek, a powder day with 10″ fresh on top of a 4 foot base, that I got to ride them for the first time.

Snapped in, grabbed the lift and there I was at the top ready to ride down.

Initially, as with any new skiboards, it took just a little getting used to the length, sweet spots and conditions. Didn’t take long (actually about 50 feet) and here was my experience:

OMG! These are so smooth and just handle powder so effortlessly without leaning back. They are also fast turning due to rockered tips. I was truly impressed with how easily they turned, how smooth a ride on the long groomed and in moguls, in short a delight to ride. Super quick, yet quick turning, I was so happy to ride these new skiboards. I was also relieved that all our design work paid off. If you want something that turns on a dime, rides powder with ease, flies down the groomed runs with such a smoothness and stability and will tackle anything on the mountain, these are a amazing choice.

Doc

Are You Happy?

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Is it possible to be happy all the time? Ever wondered about that. This actually occupies the attention of the majority of the human race, whether they realize it or not. Ever planned something expecting deep down that it would make you happy? Or finally completed a project knowing that life would be just a bit better?

I watch my dog ( I am not avoiding the question) and he is just happy. He is present, breathing in life. Check this photo I captured of him in the Colorado mountains:

If you look close you will see his eyes closed smelling the flowers. Being happy means taking the time to just enjoy being alive and in the present moment. It requires nothing more of us then to just stop, notice and appreciate life in whatever way you can.

To be happy is quite easy – just decide no matter what – when you catch yourself not being happy, STOP, focus to what does make you happy. Neuro-physiologically speaking this is what is referred to as neuro plasticity – rewiring your brain to create a new habit. In this case, you decide you want to be happy.

After all, how do you really no that if that promotion, new car, vacation will finally make you happy. It won’t unless you make the decision to be happy, no matter what. Why? Simply because you deserve to be happy and it is just a habit of attention. Putting it off reinforces the old habit of “I’ll be happy when” and it never really happens.

Take the teaching of my dog and take time as often as possible, even when something bad is happening to choose to be happy even in the midst of that and you will begin to create the long term habit of being truly happy (independent of outside circumstances). In the words of Bob Marley – “Don’t worry, Be Happy”.

Wolf Creek Ski Resort SW Colorado boasts 64″ base

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Yes, their tagline is “Most Snow in Colorado” does it again. Already fully 100% open as of Oct. 1, they just got another 12″ today on top of their already 64″ base. Yes, that right, Wolf Creek Ski Resort SW Colorado boasts 64″ base! For those of you not familiar with Wolf Creek Ski Resort, it is a small local resort with 4 basic lifts, 1500 foot vertical and lots of backcountry options to hike to. And, of course, powder, powder, powder. Great place for those wider skiboards.

Best of all, that is for us anyway, is it is only an hour from the Skiboards Superstore and a great place to test out the latest skiboards.

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