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Originally Posted by GrilledSteezeSandwich  Wow I didn't realize you've only skied for 8 years..I was thinking like 20-30 years. I think of my 88mm underfoot Scratch BCs as fat..I've yet to try anything 100+..Do you ever crave a high speed groomer or a bump run??? |
I try not too. j/k. I had a pass at Stowe from 2000 until 2005 and got most of 100 days a year. I spent many days railing the cord at way-to-dangerous speed. It's fun and all, and taught me how to ride the edge, but on those days i was spending twice as long on the lift as i was on my skis. That being said, a ski with a 90mm waist can hook up just fine, and if it's too hard for that, I'll not gonna be on the hill. Then, on groomer days, once I had my AT setup, I would just put the skins on and head out into the notch, get at the soft wood line and traverse. Pretty much found all the cut lines in my set list that way. Bushwacking thru rediculously tight spruce, getting cliffed out...downclimbing ice flows. It was way more fun the going 80 down lift line, plus I figured out where everything good is so now I can just go git it when the gittin's good. From the beginning for me skis were about getting out into the Back Country, like my MTBing, just the winter version. Same with WWKayaking. A certain number of days spent the area are required to get where you need to be, but once I could kind of ski, was out. At that point I realized I needed fatter skis. Ever try breaking trail for an hour and a half thru 36 inches of snow on skinny boards? Sucky. Fatties float.