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...

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Littleton, Colorado (reply to msaemisch at yahoo dot com)
See my ski photography at: http://PowderDay.us
Carpe powder-diem

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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...

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Littleton, Colorado (reply to msaemisch at yahoo dot com)
See my ski photography at: http://PowderDay.us
Carpe powder-diem

"Let Mikey Ski It!" wrote in
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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

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

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

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

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

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)?

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.

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?