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I ride unmodified HSP boots. It's obviously up to you, but modifications aren't necessary, and it's a one way step, so you may want to consider trying to ride the things first.

Eventually, if and...

I think there are many differences between the Alps and North America. I have not found the wealthiness of the participants to differ much: both places are entirely private jet capable. Many places...

Oh yeah, one more thing about the CM .... I discovered that there is at least one other English rider on hard boots out there. Even better, she's not a he and is way younger than me. So the sport is...

Yeah, one thing you don't generally get in hard-boot snowboarding is any input from anyone else - I just don't ride with anyone on hard boots, so it's hard to pick up stuff that way.

Here is the...

Only half-drunk? That would be because they actually ran out of Weiss bier. No kidding, they really did. Here are some more shots from Saturday, boring riding stuff I'm afraid, but there it is:
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Looks good. I'll be there Friday afternoon sometime.

They whine on when small numbers of people die in interesting ways, yet they ignore the 6 killed every day here on the roads.

I don't have the horse-riding stats to hand, but that's more dangerous...

The media have a very interesting approach to snow sports accidents, some of which they report and some of which they do not. They tend to have "agendas", like "all risk is controllable", or "safety...

Toys won't "prevent" you from dying in a slide. I would take a look at a few slide images to see if you can't work out why that is.

These things simply don't provide the safety you're implying...

My understanding of "counter rotation" is that it's an attempt to use conservation of angular momentum to torque the board into a turn. You twist your upper body in one direction and torque the board...

QED. "Personal" means it's up to me, not up to you how I should discharge my own responsibility.

Here are a few to get you going:
Back in the day I had one of the old "surf style" leashes on a monoski. This was before they developed dedicated mono brakes, which I got as soon as they came out. ...

I think a mix would probably work best.

I find the GoPro is great for powder riding as it's hard to capture the feel of that any other way, but if you have someone prepared to use a hand-held...

Hmm, I've always wanted to go there. It's kind of tricky to get to though. Hmm. I wonder if my board's long enough.

Sounds good. By the time I can't get any more hard boots, chances are decent soft boots will be stiff enough to do the job. Good.

I ride them all the time in powder, generally somewhat deeper than that, although as someone said the depth makes no odds. I usually ride in dry snow, but Whistler for example has wetter stuff. I use...

I'm with Bent on this, although I'm more extreme in my views.

The last thing I want to do is anything "family friendly". When I started kids didn't ride because it was hard and extreme.
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Well you can ride resort powder on a hard board. The main issue is the side-to-side balance is hard, and it's not the best tool for the job, but we know that. Actually, I just rewrote this, as riding...

Never ridden one, it depends what you want. I have the 165SL with 63Kgs and that's a great hardpack board, but I like to ride at resort-legal speeds and slalom around the jibbers...

Personally I've no currently in use board longer than 156, because that's the way I like it.

On the other hand I weigh 62Kgs and the boards I ride are the correct size for me. That's 136 of your...

Here you go. One shot of the front toe piece showing the two opposed wedges giving a little lift. The other two shots are side/ rear shots of the back binding heel mount with the combined small wedge...

That's all correct, works fine for me at least: it's how they are designed.

I'll take some pictures if you're still struggling later. From memory (my set up isn't here), all the wedges have a little ridge, which is how they fit together.

So me, I have a pair of small...

Soft boot carvers: as previously mentioned, good riders can carve irrespective of footwear. The best ambassadors for riding on the edges may be those good soft boot riders, not the people here. To...

There are several separate strands to this thread.

Most people I ride with are on soft gear or even skis, but so long as they can keep up that's not a problem. With the good snowboarders I...