11/23/2023 0 Comments Black diamond helio 105 2019![]() I could now build the site from scratch (in the figurative sense – it still had a lightweight theme in the background). ![]() Ever since starting to use WordPress way back in 2005, I have dreamed of something like this. This is a page-building plugin for WordPress that allows drag-and-drop designing not only of page and post content, but also themes. I started with off-the-shelf WordPress themes, which I wanted to edit to match the design Dominika had proposed. And the more I got into things, the more I realized that I wanted to do this right, as far as the back end was concerned. Dominika delivered on the front-end graphic design well ahead of the deadline I’d set her. In an early email to Dominika in late June this year, I had set a completion date of the end of July. I was blissfully ignorant going into this project. Her exhibition of mountain-themed posters, as well as an overall sense of space and simplicity got me hooked. She was exactly the person I was looking for. I checked out her work, and I was hooked. But where to find such a unicorn?Īfter a few months of giving up hope, a random Facebook post in late May 2018 from someone wanting a logo designer ended up with an unrelated person suggesting that this person contacted Dominika Gan. Ideally, they’d be passionate about ski touring. Who actually did the activities that the site would showcase. I wanted someone who understood the mountains. I wanted the site to look really good, so I hired a designer. So it started to make sense to have a full site that included all activities. But then what would I do about the cycle touring content? Make a new site for that too? There’s also content that overlaps between activities, such as the content about displaying Japan topo maps on a smartphone, or submitting hiking and backcountry plans to the Japan police. I originally started creating a site focused solely on ski touring in Hokkaido. It would be 100% focused on showcasing Hokkaido’s outdoors – ski touring, cycle touring, and hiking. So I set out to create a new site, where I’d transfer all the Hokkaido-related content from. Almost all the cycle touring routes, for example, were planned to a large degree by Haidee. In reality, many of the Hokkaido content and route guides that I produce aren’t a one-man-band production.As a “Rob’s travels” site, this didn’t really make sense. I have vague aspirations to allow others to contribute routes or other information to the site.was becoming less about me and my travels, and more about the place that is Hokkaido.This would require better data management. Related to the above, I wanted to really revamp the route search system.In order to change anything in the design of the website, I’d need to copy and paste values for each route. ![]() This was all just typed into a WordPress post. Route distances, elevation gain, length of route etc. That is, on, everything about a route was hard-coded into a page. When it comes to managing information about routes, a site really needs decent data management structures. My blog as a personal blog didn’t feel like it was doing this justice. Hokkaido needs more decent information – in English – about the outdoors here.was becoming more and more a resource for people wanting to explore Hokkaido either by bike or on ski.There were a few of reasons for the move. I’d been pondering this move for a long time. It was time for Hokkaido’s very own English database of outdoor routes. But I felt it was time to split the Hokkaido content away from my personal blog. If you only ski good snow this is less important.The Hokkaido Wilds got its start in my website my personal blog about my travels around the world and within Hokkaido. the Atomic Backlands) will realign your spine in the death cookies. If you get beefier skis, get beefier bindings too imo. I usually ski around 180cm depending on rocker profile and shit. I like to run the same sizes I run in bound. Salomon QST 106 (I have the maroon version w/ shifts, theyre great), Corvus Freebird, Line Sick Day 104.įor context I live and ski in the PNW but have skied maybe two weeks out in Utah. If you want to bomb down the Suicide Chutes at mach 10 like you're Johnny Collinson, I would look at skis around 1800-2100g: If you want to get something on the lighter side I would look at skis around 1500g: G3 Seekr, Salamon Mtn, Blizzard 0 G If you're trying to winter tour in Utah I think you're likely on the right track with the options you listed. My Blizzard 0 g 85 (~1200g/ski) is a powder ski to a rando racer but for me its my light weight volcano ski. This is very much a matter of perspective. Any recommendations on the heavier skis that have a nice compromise on weight and stability?
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