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What skis make you schwing?
I need some new sticks and will be looking to buy once rock season starts
to fade. With the seemingly ever increasing choices, what new boards do you all have your eyes on? My skiing preferences are no-bumps, un-tracked pow or crud. Smoothed pack when I can not find the untracked. Mike... -- Littleton, Colorado (reply to msaemisch at yahoo dot com) See my ski photography at: http://PowderDay.us Carpe powder-diem |
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Kurt Knisely mailto
In article , Let Mikey Ski It! says... I need some new sticks and will be looking to buy once rock season starts to fade. With the seemingly ever increasing choices, what new boards do you all have your eyes on? My skiing preferences are no-bumps, un-tracked pow or crud. Smoothed pack when I can not find the untracked. Why not go with the Volkl Vertigo CMH Edition? http://www.xmission.com/~kurt/fall02/volkls.jpg Otherwise, I bet you'd like this setup: http://www.voile-usa.com/skis/carbonsurf.html in about a 178 & http://www.bdel.com/gear/backcountry/freeride.php Since Tua is gone now, I'd go w/ a new MtnSurf (Carbonsurf). There oughta be a law. (when is that "spooning" contest?) (goin' to the GWN this winter?) Yes. Cat skiing near Silverton (we'll post our tentative plans offline). And, yes. Mike... -- Littleton, Colorado (reply to msaemisch at yahoo dot com) See my ski photography at: http://PowderDay.us Carpe powder-diem |
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"Let Mikey Ski It!" wrote in
: I need some new sticks and will be looking to buy once rock season starts to fade. With the seemingly ever increasing choices, what new boards do you all have your eyes on? My skiing preferences are no-bumps, un-tracked pow or crud. Smoothed pack when I can not find the untracked. Mike... -- Littleton, Colorado (reply to msaemisch at yahoo dot com) See my ski photography at: http://PowderDay.us Carpe powder-diem Mikey, man, you gotta get a pair of those Volant Spatulas. You know, reverse camber, fatter in the waist than tip and tail. Might make you even better in those Powder8 competitions. RW |
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bdubya wrote in
: On 25 Sep 2003 10:40:20 GMT, (Richard Walsh) wrote: "Let Mikey Ski It!" wrote in : I need some new sticks and will be looking to buy once rock season starts to fade. With the seemingly ever increasing choices, what new boards do you all have your eyes on? My skiing preferences are no-bumps, un-tracked pow or crud. Smoothed pack when I can not find the untracked. Mike... -- Littleton, Colorado (reply to msaemisch at yahoo dot com) See my ski photography at: http://PowderDay.us Carpe powder-diem Mikey, man, you gotta get a pair of those Volant Spatulas. You know, reverse camber, fatter in the waist than tip and tail. Might make you even better in those Powder8 competitions. I wasn't going to be the first to bring those up...First I heard of them (small magazine piece last spring), I figgered it was a prank. Now I'm thinking it's a much more elaborate prank. Do they come with a disclaimer, like "do NOT attempt to ski these anywhere but in fresh powder"? bw About a thousand years ago, mid-late 60's to be much more precise, some folks at Killington came up with a great new idea for skis. Barrel staves. Yep, you got it, real, oak barrel staves. As they got into it further, the barrel staves had p-tex bases and steel edges. In the days before the Canyon Quad and Downdraft and Double Dipper, there was GREAT woods skiing in the canyon between East Fall and Cascade, since mucked up by cutting wide, snow-making, groomed trails. Well, Downdraft can still be hairy. It's where the patrol is checked out for ability to handle sleds. Anyway I digress. The barrel staves. Not only did they have reverse camber and were wider in the middle than at the ends, they had a completely convex bottom. Got the picture? Here in the east they sufficed for powder days but I think they may have been a little short for the western mountains, around 80cm I think. But a little longer, maybe.... My mention of the tree skiing area between East Fall and Cascade was to not that this area had been very well traveled on barrel staves by many folks, including the pres of Killington, Pres Smith. A point of trivia. Does anyone besides me remember what the area between East Fall and Cascade was called? and who were these two lines (that'a hint) named for? Back to the barrel staves again, I never skied them, they scared the daylights out of me, but you can see pictures of people on them in the book, "Of Men and Mountains, the Story of Killington" by Karen Lorenz. RW |
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Let Mikey Ski It! wrote:
I need some new sticks and will be looking to buy once rock season starts to fade. With the seemingly ever increasing choices, what new boards do you all have your eyes on? My skiing preferences are no-bumps, un-tracked pow or crud. Smoothed pack when I can not find the untracked. Stockli Stormriders for that. I have some softer-flexing Easy Riders and they are my secret weapon in fresh deep snow (we don't get powder here). The Storms required too much speed before they'd turn nicely which wasn't really ideal for teaching! You can get some monster fat ones too, and there's one with special graphics especially for the US market. ant |
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:13:22 CST, "Let Mikey Ski It!"
wrote: I need some new sticks and will be looking to buy once rock season starts to fade. With the seemingly ever increasing choices, what new boards do you all have your eyes on? My skiing preferences are no-bumps, un-tracked pow or crud. Smoothed pack when I can not find the untracked. Mike... Ya like to be under, in, or on top of powder? What's wrong with good old Explosivs? They are manageable even on rock-hard Eastern LoudPowder (TM) - I know because they were the only other skis I had along when my narrow carvers were in the shop one day. If you want to float real high, what about the new Gotamas? I'll bet you'll even get more precision in your 8's this way, but are there rules about this in pow-8 contests? Of course, there are always Japmo Daaps & their modern bretheren: http://biglines.com/photos_large.php?picid=12993 |
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NE-skier wrote in
: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 05:22:40 CST, (Richard Walsh) wrote: My mention of the tree skiing area between East Fall and Cascade was to not that this area had been very well traveled on barrel staves by many folks, including the pres of Killington, Pres Smith. A point of trivia. Does anyone besides me remember what the area between East Fall and Cascade was called? and who were these two lines (that'a hint) named for? Is it "Toilet Bowl", or is that further to the right (looking up the mtn)? Further left, Toilet Bowl is between EFall & RoyalFlush, The area is now called Downdraft, DoubleDipper, & Dipper Woods. (Hint) the old name was for actual people at K at that time. |
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On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:20:44 CST, (Richard
Walsh) wrote: NE-skier wrote in : On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 05:22:40 CST, (Richard Walsh) wrote: My mention of the tree skiing area between East Fall and Cascade was to not that this area had been very well traveled on barrel staves by many folks, including the pres of Killington, Pres Smith. A point of trivia. Does anyone besides me remember what the area between East Fall and Cascade was called? and who were these two lines (that'a hint) named for? Is it "Toilet Bowl", or is that further to the right (looking up the mtn)? Further left, Toilet Bowl is between EFall & RoyalFlush, The area is now called Downdraft, DoubleDipper, & Dipper Woods. (Hint) the old name was for actual people at K at that time. It looks like no one knows. Ya gonna tell us the answer? |
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