Anton Sponar

Wildsnow Blogger: Anton Sponar

Website: http://www.skiarpa.com/

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Profile: WildSnow.com guest blogger Anton Sponar spends winters enjoying the Aspen area of Colorado, while summers are taken up with slave labor doing snowcat powder guiding at Ski Arpa in Chile. If Anton didn’t ski every month and nearly every week of the year, skiing would cease to exist as we know it.

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  • Lou Dawson 2: Joseph, those 18650 cells look really nice, though would be hardware hacker...
  • Joseph: I've switched to using high quality 18650 LipO cells for everything. You ca...
  • ptor: @DrewT and EricB - I can't agree. Skiing is always dangerous and nobody is...
  • See: Of course, Drew Tabke and Eric B already said this....
  • See: The weight you’re willing to carry to have a balloon would seem to me to be...
  • Lou Dawson 2: Thanks Lindahl, my thoughts exactly. The pack is made from massive fabric w...
  • DavidB: Ha classic. Never let a fully charged battery go unused 'eh....
  • Lindahl: While shaving 1lb off battery weight is great, that still makes for a 6.1lb...
  • Max: Hi Lou, this issue caught my eye since I purchased a pair of 26.0 Khion MS ...
  • Lou Dawson 2: Hah! The gauntlet is down. Should be easy, I'll get on it. https://www.y...
  • Crazy Horse: I'm not impressed. -- Until you hack an adapter to power an espresso machi...
  • Lou Dawson 2: Hi Harpo, I can tell you that when we tested the Mammut packs, the light fa...
  • Lou Dawson 2: VT, great minds think alike. Stay tuned. Lou...
  • VT skier: Lou, Here is a link to some weights and prices for smaller LiPos used in ...
  • Harpo: I wanted a longterm review of the Light Removable including how the light w...
  • Lou Dawson 2: Got a better scale for larger weights, weight of Voltair 30 liter unfortuna...
  • Lou Dawson 2: Hi Harpo, we're working on a lot of things, not sure exactly when that will...
  • Tyler Eardley: I'm 99% sure this is the boot of choice for splitboarders. I'm taking the p...
  • harpo: Hi Wildsnow, I think you indicated in the comments that you would be doing ...
  • Eric B: I agree with the "one deploy" philosophy. If you ever had to use one of th...
  • Lou Dawson 2: Finn, my understanding from our extensive comment threads is that there are...
  • Lou Dawson 2: Hi See, I didn't feel like you were detracting from anything, but thanks fo...
  • See: I am in no way trying to detract from your project here, Lou. I’m totally i...
  • finn: Ok, after reading all of this, what is the opinion of the safest tech bindi...
  • Stewart: Seems just another example of technological fetishism and consumerism unhin...
  • Lou Dawson 2: I found what's possibly a better, lighter weight converter, ordered it. ...
  • Lou Dawson 2: See, good points. My UsbAir wiring harness indeed weighs less than yet anot...
  • Jeremy C: I doubt a USB feed off your avalanche airbag, is something that any manufac...
  • See: Great fun, but a 9000 mAh usb charger weighs less than 8 ounces, can be kep...
  • Lou Dawson 2: Drew, I actually do agree with you, I think the "one deploy" model is way b...

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