I have earlier mentioned how hard it has been to find the Gore-Tex Service Center contact details when you need them; so I was blown away when I saw this posted on the wall of Partioaitta…
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My good, but not that old, Canon S5 IS has started to dislike outdoors 
Now there has been several occasions when the objective has been frozen after few shots in outdoor winter conditions and finally I took the camera to JAS tekniikka for evaluation and their conclusions was that the optics should be changed; with price tag of over 200 EUR. This triggered my gadget freak instincts – great opportunity get new camera 
So I have been checking some options and noted that Canon has conveniently upgraded the PowerShot range. The new Canon SX1 IS with CMOS sensor: 4 frames per second and full HD video recording sounds very interesting, but over 500 EUR price tag makes me wonder how long I should wait until this gets cheaper – or buy now to get great photos from Zermatt…
Well, the ski shopping did not go exactly as planned. The friendly folks at Ski Service managed convince me that Diamir Titanal II bindings are not the state-of-the-art anymore and that driving the Coombas would be much more pleasant with Marker Barons attached. So I ended up with upgrading also the bindings. I truly hope that this will be truly winning combination for several winters to come.
In case anyone needs Diamirs (currently readily installed on crossplate plates) I have one extra pair…
During the last season it came evident that my well served Atomics (Atomic TM:EX with crossplates with both alpine touring and telemark bindings attached) are out of mileage; hence, replacement is needed before the plane toward Zermatt leaves.
Doing any sensible testing of the real mountain performance of the skis is pretty much impossible in Southern Finland, so I have to rely on reading reviews and recommendations To narrow down the choices I asked advice from very helpful Ski Service folks while I picked my ski boots from fitting (the plastic had shrunken again). They recommended K2 Apache Coomba (181 cm) for my use case.
Based short study with google people seems to happy with their first experiences and the specs look promising, so Ski Service is pretty close on getting my money again. This time I’m going to mount my Diamir Titanals directly the skis and figure out later if I get new telemark skis…
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