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.MASSHOLE.1. Did you mold the liners?

2. Do you have custom footbeds?

3. Did your bootfitter even do a full evaluation of your foot/did you mention 6th toe issues with prior boots? 6th toe pressure is pretty easy to ID during the bootfitting process. Any fitter worth going to would be able to pick up on it quickly.

Getting new ski boots sucks, but there are so many options out there these days with great customizable shells that having a bad experience is pretty rare these days.

Everyone says go to a good bootfitter and 9/10 times, doing this should prevent most of these issues. Maybe you're one of the few people that will always struggle with it but, if your only issue is 6th toe-related, I doubt it.

I've potentially got a similar issue to yours (6th toe+an accessory nail on the left pinky toe+a pinky toe that rolls over and puts all it's pressure on said accessory nail) and I've managed to make it comfortable in a Salomon 140 Race (WC plug boot) and Lupo Pro HDs with posting of my footbed on the left side+some grinding/punching. Over the past 4 days I've spent god knows how many hours touring in those Lupos and with minimal problems. I promise you, there's a way to make your boots comfortable.

BdoobzThe older I get the less friends I seem to have. Even real close homies from highschool have vanished. Sucks when no one hits you back on a message.


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MinggI HATE when people say “you’re not alone,” or “it gets better,” or “you have people who love you,” or really anything of the sort. Because those phrases are literally just words unless the person has ACTUALLY felt that way. Are they good reminders? Maybe. But unless there is context or previous experiences where they did feel it would get better or like they were loved, etc, then those words literally mean nothing. If someone doesn’t feel loved and you say people do then it’s just a slap in the face. Or if someone is disconnected from life, telling them they aren’t alone means nothing. I get people mean well, but I hear these words all the time in a lot of different scenarios and it’s irritating.

DeebieSkeebiesI feel this. At the same time though, my friends group grew a lot closer and grew smaller so now its important people included and not just a bunch of people like HS that you gotta maintain relationships with.

One thing I am sorta bummed about though is one of our other homies that grew up skiing with all of us. I skied with him for the first time in like 3 years this season and it was good to see him again but he kinda turned into just a crusty elitist Alta skier who, along with some other rich kids from PC, work/live up at Alta and just shit talk anyone who doesnt. Its interesting because me and him started skiing Snowbird a shitload after we graduated HS and sorta inspired his idea to live/work up there. Its weird. I think some of those people up there have their brains fried from so much drinking and drugs.

MinggI HATE when people say “you’re not alone,” or “it gets better,” or “you have people who love you,” or really anything of the sort. Because those phrases are literally just words unless the person has ACTUALLY felt that way. Are they good reminders? Maybe. But unless there is context or previous experiences where they did feel it would get better or like they were loved, etc, then those words literally mean nothing. If someone doesn’t feel loved and you say people do then it’s just a slap in the face. Or if someone is disconnected from life, telling them they aren’t alone means nothing. I get people mean well, but I hear these words all the time in a lot of different scenarios and it’s irritating.

theabortionatorThe best is people who post on facebook about how they're there for people, but are the types of people that would be like "eww fuck off" if anyone actually came to them about anything

TnskiWatched a show called grossness but couldn't deal with seeing people breaking their ankle and foot twisted 90° or having a dozen worms pulled out of someone's missing teeth etc. What a disgusting show.

DeebieSkeebiesAnyone with a brain injury can relate I guess but like when youre telling a story or explaining something (at least for me) and it takes you a second to jog your thoughts and put together sentences and such and you get hung up sometimes and then youre talking to people who may not know you or are familiar and you can see theyre starting to mentally check out of the conversation cuz youre a mushmouth who cant figure their words out lol

theabortionatorShits super fun

DeebieSkeebies"the tip of your tongue" expression doesnt really do much justice when you fuckin forget what youre saying mid sentence sometimes or forget what youre doing mid-task and gotta remind yourself. Its weird, just how it is.

DIRTYBUBBLECan’t go one fucking month without getting injured.

I saw some kid in the lodge with a skateboard last weekend as I was leaving the bar. I got stoked and tried to Ollie over a bench. I didn’t even eat shit or anything but I smacked my shin off a locker. Was pretty drunk so I didn’t even register it. Now a week later my leg is swollen as fuck and I can barely walk

icedi feel that
i was skiing drunk last weekend and bashed my shin on a snowboarder chilling on a box cause my brain couldnt register he wasnt moving forward

drunk skiing just sucks

PeppermillRenoFuck that guy. I swear ego has something to do with it and people just want to fuck with uphill traffic for the sake of it. I almost had 2 gnarly crashes on the 1 really sketchy cliffed out low tide part of Wildcat on the pow day Weds because there were assholes slowly scraping their way down and they didn't listen to 'heads up' I wasn't slowing down but I expect you to stop when you are barely moving and stay out of my damn lines.

safarisamCan’t wait to hear all about how great the skiing is on Saturday/Sunday and how i should have gone out. Except, I’m. It going to get that invite and I’ll have a few friends bail on me once again. And my stupid truck is fucked and that means i can’t drive to XC. Fuuuuuuck

No.QuarterI don’t understand this sentence. What’s stopping you from taking the bus and doing some solo soul skiing lapping the singles line with some good tunes

safarisamI don’t have a pass this year. I wasn’t sure if i would be able to ski w/ the broken ankle healing up so I’m just touring/sled skiing.

No.QuarterAh I see. I just assumed that you had a Bridger pass

safarisamI’ve got a few buddies who hook it up, my luck i would have gotten a big sky pass and not been able to ski. I’ll probably just go for a bike ride around town or something.

theabortionatorMan that over exaggerated push into the rail with the camera is so shot. Worst trend ever. I dont know if you could make a parody because some of theae edits they're almost doing it unironically already.

If the first few shots are too much I just stop watching. Even the sickest tricks aren't worth forcing my eyes to watch some heinous unsteady camera. Sometimes it looks like they're gonna fall over. Fuck

theabortionatorFor sure. Things got a bit better for me over time, and I got used to everything enough that I can kind of hold my shit together most of the time. But damn. I hate when people grill me about forgetting their name. Like motherfucker, out of all the stuff I'm trying to remember that shit is so far down the priority list. I'm generally just trying to show up for work, and not lose my phone wallet or keys, pay my bills on time, and not fuck anything up to catastrophicly. Idk.

I actually just bumped my head a week ago. Not terribly but enough to fuck things up a bit. works been kinda shitty and been getting fucked over. I remember after my head injuries I was a lot more angry about shit. This time it's mellower but it comes at a time where shits actually kinda fucked up. I ended up having some beers last night, prolly shouldn't have but I need to blow off some steam. Ate some mushrooms and went bowling with my roommate and her boyfriend. Had a good time and hate life a little less. BAck on that straight water game for prolly a week or so though.

Been good about staying off the mountain too. A little easier now that it's feb break. But the weather has been nice and the riding is really good, especially the park laps and groomers.

I'm just fucking rambling so I'll stop, but hopefully things are on the up for you. Head injuries fucking suck. And it def makes it hard to relate to people sometimes/gets frustrating when you feel like you're running at like 50% or worse. Hang in there

DeebieSkeebiesLove work and morning routines, id go crazy without them honestly. Just getting into a routine of just remembering shit and doing shit in the morning or whatever has helped me a lot. Just getting your brain firing on whatever cylinders it wants to operate on today. Hyped on school partly because of this. Its so fucking weird that I forget peoples names when I spent like 6 years remembering every single little detail about people i never meet and their ski vacations, where they are from, what they want, etc.

Things feel much better. Lots of progress in the last few years. Hoping the same for you in terms of progress and for anyone else on here who has had a brain injury. Im beginning the process of slowly getting my shit together by going back to school this summer, it'll be 2 years since i failed out and had to withdraw medically due to some of my symptoms coming back. Theyre resolved and out of the way now. Looking forward to it. My skiing has improved tremendously this year and growing along with these kids I coach is a real pleasure so thats been really getting me going all winter long. Spent yesterday crushing lines an NS'er.

**This post was edited on Feb 22nd 2020 at 6:15:45pm

MinggI HATE when people say “you’re not alone,” or “it gets better,” or “you have people who love you,” or really anything of the sort. Because those phrases are literally just words unless the person has ACTUALLY felt that way. Are they good reminders? Maybe. But unless there is context or previous experiences where they did feel it would get better or like they were loved, etc, then those words literally mean nothing. If someone doesn’t feel loved and you say people do then it’s just a slap in the face. Or if someone is disconnected from life, telling them they aren’t alone means nothing. I get people mean well, but I hear these words all the time in a lot of different scenarios and it’s irritating.

DeebieSkeebiesDamn man just wanted to hook my freakin mom up with a free buddy pass at Alta yesterday....apparently no freebies there and I only get like 2 buddy passes to snowbird. Thats a lot of money for a multi-resort pass and not even a little discount

theabortionatorIs it possible to be physically allergic to edm music?

safarisamTook the day off to go skiing, and then j decided a skiing after 12 isn’t worth it. I took the day off so we could ski together after his lab!!!! If he went sled skiing I’m going to be so gd mad

OregonDeadso u are going solo right? I don't think it is too late to get some turns in and it will be worth it if you do. Even if you just make it for part of the last hour. Last hour is the power hour and you will get bonus points for last chair so go close the place down!

safarisamI went to BB at 9 and left around 2? Skied the whole day solo, which isn’t bad. Spring skiing rocks. Still a bit pissed that we talked about it last night and he bailed.

MinggIdk honestly. You can say those things genuinely and get through to people but idk. It’s probably just a me thing/pet peeve.

PeppermillRenoYeah there are no such thing with passes these days buddy pass means some shit like 10% off the window rate when liftopia is 20%+ and way cheaper.

Even as an employee most places give you something like 2 50% off friends and family tickets for the first 2 years you work there and you have to be a long time tenured employee to get free days to give out.