Don't show this to your skier buddies...

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:11:05 GMT, Champ allegedly
wrote:

On 18 Apr 2006 08:09:11 -0700, "og" wrote:

***MANY UPPER SLOPES ABOVE 8500 FT RECEIVED 40-50 INCHES OF SNOW***

fingers in ears

La la la la I can't hear you I can't hear you la la la la....

I wish I'd never said anything. He always does this. :-(

:-)

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"Jrobb" wrote in message
oups.com...
This could be a reason for the downfall of the us court system as
well...false perceptions by ill advised judges.\

Clearly one of those "activist judges" we keep hearing about.

Bob

"Mike T" wrote in message
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Just saw this while "snurfin" the web...will have to see if it comes
true. I doubt it.

LMAO! As Switters says, its outdated. I have a 3 year old daughter -
old
enough to ski but a few years before she'll be on a board. It just so
happens that hitting the slopes with my grom is *much* easier when I'm
also
on skis. So, for the first time in 13 years give or take, I've spent
some
time on two planks this season. Most of it is spent chasing my grom
around, but I've spent a little time skiing just to get some practice in
so
I can set a good example for her.

I have a pair of Atomic Metron M11 172's. They retail for more than any
snowboard I own, even my beloved Donek Olympic and Coiler Custom, but I
scored them "lightly demoed" from a local Atomic rep for a fraction of
their
cost. There have a 12m sidecut which is tighter than half my snowboards,
and *ridiculously* tight for a pair of skis.

Have you ever seen those bumper stickers that say "If it were easy it
would
be called snowboarding"? Fuggetaboutit. Skiing on these M11's is SOOOOOO
easy. I skied for about 8 years before switching to snowboarding. I
skied parallel but never carved. I was carving on my *second run* on
these
skis. All you do is tip 'em on edge, point your knees into the turn,
bend
the inside knee, straighten the outside one, and Presto! You look and
feel
like a racer. Granted, I spent most of my snoboarding time digging
trenches, so I have the feel down from that, but leaving twin trenches on
my
second run? It's that easy.

The boots are still less comfy that snowboard boots - and I ride hardshell
snowboard boots most of the time. Hard snowboard boots flex more at the
ankle, this is what IMHO makes them more comfy than ski boots. But my
$89
Heads from eBay (great deal - probably a little soft, but still very stiff
compared to my snowboard hardshells) are not bad. I can ski all day with
my grom (no kidding - she went from 10 - 4 last weekend, with two breaks)
and my feet don't hurt.

I don't use poles. Why would I? These skis are so easy to rail turns on
without them. I don't even *own* a pair of poles.

Now having said all this, skiiing is still a distant 3rd behind hardboot
snowboarding and softboot snowboarding for me. It just feels better.
Leaving twin trenches on skis is fun, don't get me wrong. But carving
hard
on a snowboard is downright exhilterating. Skiinig the downhill edge
still
feels grouned in some way. Riding the downhill edge on a snowboard feels
like you're in suspended animation, especially on a steep slope where
you're
switching edges while pointed across the hill. Surfing powder on a
snowboard is pure nirvana. I probably won't find out what skiing in deep
powder is like because I will be on my board instead, but when I picture
it
in my mind it's not the same.

When I get on my skis, I am amazed by how easy it is. I easily work
twice as hard on the snowboard on the same terrain.

Bob