December 2nd,and we finally get some snow here, which means I'm on the hill in 12 days. Can't wait, just retired my old, beat-up MR 171s, and got a shiny new pair of the exact same. I'm gonna miss the old ones, with all the chips, scratches, and core shots that accompanied them. Lots of hard skiing on those babies. My new ones are getting my old bindings, and the old ones got an old set of Salomon 727 bindings that I found in my basement, with the brakes cut off with an angle grinder. I snapped my poles last season, and I can't afford new ones (go skiing or buy poles, huge decision), so it looks like I'm rocking no poles, or a set of 1980s poles (the same age as my solly binders), which are almost as tall as I am. Hit some urban last night, found a pretty sick rail to hit, considering where I live is flat. This one I could actually build a ramp, not like my summer urban using hockey rink snow, soccer goalposts, and a very fast truck winch. Thats all for now, more updates to follow.