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Any first hand reports from Utah last weekend?
Did anyone ski in Utah Nov. 20-21? I'm interested in a report.
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AstroPax wrote:
Here is a pic from yesterday, Alta, 11/21/04 (231KB): http://ski.astropax.com/04-05/temp_a...-21-04_001.htm What part of Alta is this? Dave |
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AstroPax wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:57:31 -0500, Dave Stallard wrote: AstroPax wrote: Here is a pic from yesterday, Alta, 11/21/04 (231KB): http://ski.astropax.com/04-05/temp_a...-21-04_001.htm What part of Alta is this? Pic taken from Sugarloaf lift looking west. Baldy Shoulder (east), and Baldy. In the lower left corner of the pic, you can just barely see the traverse that runs from the Top of Sugrloaf lift to the top of the Germania lift...umm, rather, I mean the top of the Collins lift, now. Yow. I'm ready to ski this stuff. I'd want to rent wider powder skis than what I have now (K2 Axis X). Got any recommendations for a wider powder ski? Dave |
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AstroPax wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:52:04 -0500, Dave Stallard wrote: Yow. I'm ready to ski this stuff. I'd want to rent wider powder skis than what I have now (K2 Axis X). Got any recommendations for a wider powder ski? I've skied the k2 "Axis X" in a good 24" to 30" of Utah's finest, and IMO, the Axis X is a perfectly good powder ski. FWIW, the XP was K2's entry for Western skiing/powder. The X was their Eastern ski. I've skiied the X in powder at Telluride and found it to be OK. Wasn't 24" to 30", however. I'm not very experienced in powder, but would sort of like to be Personally, I ski an all-mountain mid-fat. I hate the really fat fat boys; *too* much float, and they generally suck on the ingress and egress routes. I'm suspicious of the really wide ones that look like water skis. Vokl has some like that this year... Dave |
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AstroPax wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:27:32 -0500, Dave Stallard wrote: FWIW, the XP was K2's entry for Western skiing/powder. The X was their Eastern ski. OK, must have been the XP I was on. Sorry for the confusion. Could have been an X for all we know. Though probably the XP sells more out there. Dave |
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AstroPax wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:52:04 -0500, Dave Stallard wrote: Yow. I'm ready to ski this stuff. I'd want to rent wider powder skis than what I have now (K2 Axis X). Got any recommendations for a wider powder ski? I've skied the k2 "Axis X" in a good 24" to 30" of Utah's finest, and IMO, the Axis X is a perfectly good powder ski. Personally, I ski an all-mountain mid-fat. I hate the really fat fat boys; *too* much float, and they generally suck on the ingress and egress routes. -Astro Agreed. What is considered a mid-fat nowadays is up for discussion. My everyday ski last season has a 89 waist and that was considered powder width a few years ago. This ski responds to edge changes ultra quick for such a fat ski, so I still consider it a midfat... I can ski a tight line in moderate bumps which blew me away when I first got this ski. My other midfats have a waist of 74... on the skinny side for me. The 89 sucks on the groomed (mucho chatter... not much carving finesse), but I don't ski groomed much, so I don't care. The 74 does much better on groomed and off-piste bulletproof so that comes out in more marginal conditions. I will be replacing this ski with something in between most likely. I am partial to Dynastar, Rossi and Salomon midfats but there are other great skis out there now. RAC |
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"AstroPax" wrote in message ... On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:52:04 -0500, Dave Stallard wrote: Yow. I'm ready to ski this stuff. I'd want to rent wider powder skis than what I have now (K2 Axis X). Got any recommendations for a wider powder ski? I've skied the k2 "Axis X" in a good 24" to 30" of Utah's finest, and IMO, the Axis X is a perfectly good powder ski. Personally, I ski an all-mountain mid-fat. I hate the really fat fat boys; *too* much float, and they generally suck on the ingress and egress routes. I'm with that. I've got two pairs of all mountain stix. some 175 hots and a pair of 170 volant SOUL's. both are almost exactly the same radius. the hots being a lighter ski are fast becoming my favorite |
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