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smokes
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This popped up on a backoutnry skiing in the Pacific Northwest forum. Another microsoft employed volcano peakbagger with selfies on Mt. Ranier echochamber than never fails to provide the greatest entertainment. I'll let the post speak for itself:
Jun 21 2023 2:16AM
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WoFIowz
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You must be an Apple user.
Jun 21 2023 8:26AM
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verynormalguy
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I don’t really see anything to make fun of here. Wets with pin bindings sounds like a fun spring touring setup
Jun 21 2023 10:27AM
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eheath
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that might be the most core thing I've ever seen
Jun 21 2023 11:54AM
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smokes
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Currently rethinking my banter, thank you gentlemen, I did not see.
Jun 21 2023 12:21PM
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skiP.E.I.
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There's been a few posts on here of people asking about Wets for touring
Jun 21 2023 9:29PM
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cyphers
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noooo dude of the limitless cringe provided by the seattle ski community you pick the single cool post?

here's one from a few months ago where a user compared alpental's new uphill pass to rosa parks:


Jun 22 2023 12:40AM
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hi_vis360
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verynormalguyI don’t really see anything to make fun of here. Wets with pin bindings sounds like a fun spring touring setup


Have you toured on center mounted skis before? It’s really not great IMO the entire ski lifts off the ground every step you take because of the way it’s balanced
Jun 24 2023 12:49PM
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skiP.E.I.
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hi_vis360Have you toured on center mounted skis before? It’s really not great IMO the entire ski lifts off the ground every step you take because of the way it’s balanced

It's definitely possible to do without your skis lifting too much but that does happen more easily.
Also makes kick turns a little more awkward.
I do like having so much of the skin behind my foot though for grip on shitty snow.

**This post was edited on Jun 24th 2023 at 5:39:12pm
Jun 24 2023 5:37PM
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verynormalguy
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all of my touring setups have been at center or near center (yea i ski pow switch!! What’s good!!) never really bothered me how the ski was balanced, kick turns are a huge pain in the ass though.

also who’s to say you couldn’t back mount wets
hi_vis360Have you toured on center mounted skis before? It’s really not great IMO the entire ski lifts off the ground every step you take because of the way it’s balanced
Jun 25 2023 11:28PM
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VISHNU
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Lol epic. The wet is kind of shaped like a pow ski from like 2001, if you think about it. I walk up the skin track every time though.
Jun 26 2023 5:55AM
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verynormalguy
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VISHNUI walk up the skin track every time though.
Jun 26 2023 9:47AM
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