Buying New Skis, Looking for Ideas/Advice

[NtrentT]

Hey everyone,

Im looking into buying some new skis this year,
I currently am skiing on K2-170's cap triditional straights, which I love and plan on keeping around, Ive had them for about 6 years at least.

I never seemed to like the parabolic skis but ive never tried them they just look kina dumb to me.. but people, including my father tell me they are great.

What Do U Guys and Girls Think?
Brand?
Price?
Where? (online?)


I was wondering what everyone suggests, I love steep technical trails, Bumbs.

When I go to Tucks, I'll bring my old K2s.

Thanks all..

Hey did you all hear, it Snowed on Mt.Washington Today... WOOT !!! :snowflakes:

[elwood]

Your best bet is to do what I did... Make friends wioth someone at Dynastar... :D

[BladeGirl]

NtrentT:

Hey did you all hear, it Snowed on Mt.Washington Today... WOOT !!! :snowflakes: It did? Does this count for the contest?

-BG

[DMC]

Am I the only one around here that likes to bring my best and most trusted board to Tucks?

[Castlerock]

It did not snow on Mt. Washington today. Check out the link

Mt. Wash Obs (http://www.mountwashington.org/weather/index.php)

The lowest it got was 39 degrees

[Castlerock]

I always bring my best stuff. I need to be dialed in, I cant see skiing/riding all year, getting to the most challenging stuff you'll see, and then pulling out dull rock skis that you haven't skied for months.

Besides, there is little chance of damaging the eqeuipment, and even that is fixable. You have a better shot to ding your stuff skiing lift served, farmed snow than you do at Tucks.

[Jolly J]

I agree, I always bring my best gear with me. I bought my skis to ride not to look at. That's what p-tex and 5 minute epoxy were invented for.

I think the only damage I've even inflicted on skis at Tucks was intentional. I skied some grass on the way down the Sherburne one year and even then it was only a scratch.

[M@]

I bring my lightest skiis. Which have always been my main skiis anyway. The only part of the trip I worry about it sheburn on the way out... sometimes your skiing a patch like 3 inches wide.

[DMC]

M@:
sometimes your skiing a patch like 3 inches wide. The Sherbune can be a mile long bump trail and I got a 60 pound backpack on... Due to all the wieght on my back I actually use my poles for balance when I go down the Sherburne...

[Jolly J]

Yup nothing like coming around a corner with a bit of speed and suddenly your in a bump line with a 60 pound pack on. It's funny taking air with a pack that size on too. The pack just kind of goes where it wants.

DMC you didn't happen to be at Tucks around May 1st in 2000 or 1999 (I can't remember which year). I remember trading some Canadian Beer for....um.....something in a pipe with a guy riding with poles from NJ and NYC area.

[DMC]

DUDE!!!!

That was me.... :) I cant wait to tell my friends!!!

WOW!!!! That is soooooo coooooool!!!!

Thanks for the beers.... We needed them...

[M@]

It's a small ravine after all...
It's a small ravine after all...

[DMC]

I know I met you once too M@...

I know I met your flute once for sure... Some guy was playing "Harry Hood" on the flute at Hojos..

[M@]

Yup, Hood was in the repetior one year.

[Jolly J]

Who'd a thought. There was me, Smiley and Pam. We sort of pimped Pam out all weekend. She would go off in a crowd, spark up a conversation with someone and come back with a baggie. It was great. Thanks a bunch by the way.

If I remember that trip correctly. We hiked up in Fresh snow (about a couple of inches), set up our tent at the platform and skied avi debris in the fog. It was brutal skiing because you couldn't see the big chunks until you slammed into them. The next day was a steller blue bird postcard day. The ravine was packed. There was retirement party and someone hike up a folding picnic table complete with an umbrella and battery operated blender and they were mixing marg's for their friends.

We were just about changed drinking a beer when we met up with you guys. After we left you guys pretty muched floated the whole way back to the car. It was a very nice way to cap off a perfect day in the ravine. I'll have to get some pics scanned in.

It's a small world afterall....

[Jolly J]

DMC:
I know I met your flute once for sure... Trying to think of a way of replying to this without getting into too much trouble....

[DMC]

That was the year we skied almost from the Summit to the Shelters..

cool...

[Jolly J]

Yup that was a great year. I hiked up Left Gully and traversed into Chute Variation and got some really cool pix of the snowfields from an odd angle. We didn't go beyond the bowl in that trip. I've never actually linked the snowfields to the bowl come to think of it. When I did the Snowfields this year we drove up. We were planning on doing Great Gulf but we overslept and decide to take the 200ft hike from the car and ski the snowfields.

I've met you and I think I met Elwood and Dr. Phos on the hike up this year. They were huffin and puffin with huge packs like I was. I had earphones in and we kept passing each other on the way up. I can't remember if it was them or me that said something along the lines of why is all the big guys are carring big packs.....

[DMC]

We came down the Upper Snowfield >Lip>Lower Heawall>traversed to the bottom part of the Empress>did that little chute at the top of the Lower Snowfields and rode the Lower Snowfields then back to Hojos...

[DMC]

Jolly J:
DMC:
I know I met your flute once for sure... Trying to think of a way of replying to this without getting into too much trouble.... It may be small... But it's loud...

[Jolly J]

DMC:
We came down the Upper Snowfield >Lip>Lower Heawall>traversed to the bottom part of the Empress>did that little chute at the top of the Lower Snowfields and rode the Lower Snowfields then back to Hojos... Nice...for some reason I think we walked back to HOJO's. I'm usually pretty resoursefull at finding my way back down without walking.

[M@]

DMC:
Jolly J:
DMC:
I know I met your flute once for sure... Trying to think of a way of replying to this without getting into too much trouble.... It may be small... But it's loud... Small? Maybe it was someone else then.