Do you remember?

[CapeSkier]

While checking out the forums waiting for the snow to fly, it occurred to me that I have been around this sport for a long time. Not as long as some, but enough to be "long in the tooth". With that in mind, I was wondering if anybody besides me remembered:

Safety straps
Windmilling skis during a crash due to the safety straps
Afternoon lift tickets
Getting the lift ticket stapled to the wire bail...no adhesive...and the ticket was real paper.
Stirrup pants and lace-up boots, skis with cable bindings
Bandanas (face protection circa mid-70's)
Cowboy hats (idiotic craze of the mid-70's)
People yelling as their expensive cowboy hat blew off the chairlift
Skiing over someone's cowboy hat that blew off the chairlift
Rope tows
T-bars
J-bars
Poma Lifts
The skimobile in North Conway
Mount Whittier
The "monorail" at Attitash
The Wildcat gondola
Toko wax, and rubbing it all over your ski base
People who sewed ski-area patches on their jackets from everywhere they skied
Ski area patches
Wine Skins
Wine that tasted like a baseball glove
Red,white, and blue K2 Comp skis

I can't be the only old f@rt on this board...Anyone want to add to this list?

 

[billski]

more...

• Cubco "Anklebreakers"
• "Lange bang"
• Anything under 190cm was "short"
• $35 for six lesson package
• $30 for six nights lift tickets
• cars that won't start after a fine day on the slopes
• pushing a rear-wheel drive car out of a ditch
• lift chairs with slats (no pads) on a cold night
• Blankets on the lifts
• "Ski brakes not allowed without straps"
• "Fast ride to the top" was 20 minutes
• Nonstop chair to the top was a dream
• Waiting for your buddy because there were no cellphones, radios, etc.
• "Recent trip report" was 2 weeks old (before internet)
• Reading between the lines of the resort's "ski report" was a finely tuned skill
• Skiing around glare ice, bare spots, grass, rocks was de rigeur (in the east).
• ad-hoc ski repair in the motel room (and I'm not talking about ptex or waxing. Let's say we were not at product maturity as far as bindings or lamination quality.)

 

[Mark_151]

I remember when there was cold winters and lots of snow on the ground.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

While checking out the forums waiting for the snow to fly, it occurred to me that I have been around this sport for a long time. Not as long as some, but enough to be "long in the tooth". With that in mind, I was wondering if anybody besides me remembered:

Safety straps
Windmilling skis during a crash due to the safety straps
Afternoon lift tickets
Getting the lift ticket stapled to the wire bail...no adhesive...and the ticket was real paper.
Stirrup pants and lace-up boots, skis with cable bindings
Bandanas (face protection circa mid-70's)
Cowboy hats (idiotic craze of the mid-70's)
People yelling as their expensive cowboy hat blew off the chairlift
Skiing over someone's cowboy hat that blew off the chairlift
Rope tows
T-bars
J-bars
Poma Lifts
The skimobile in North Conway
Mount Whittier
The "monorail" at Attitash
The Wildcat gondola
Toko wax, and rubbing it all over your ski base
People who sewed ski-area patches on their jackets from everywhere they skied
Ski area patches
Wine Skins
Wine that tasted like a baseball glove
Red,white, and blue K2 Comp skis

I can't be the only old f@rt on this board...Anyone want to add to this list?

I used safety straps at rocking horse ranch and I still see them sometimes at Blue mountain..Afternoon lift tickets are around almost everywhere as are ski area patches. I sat next to a woman on the plane to Jackson with a vest with at least 100 patches. U've never seen paper tickets..now the sticker ones seem oldschool..I've never ridden a jail bar but have been on T-bars, rope tows, and Pomas..Wine skins are becoming more popular again especially out west and Jib-honks are into the bandadannas...especially at summer freestyle camps to protect against sunburn...Holla

I like the high speed quads and steezy safer new equipment better though...but I wish I could go back in time 40+ years to the 1966-67 season in Jackson Hole when they first opened but I'd take a pair of Pontoons with me in the DeLorean..lol

At Tanglewood PA..they still have the old wooden chairlifts with slats...back in middle school I'd call about 20 different snow conditions hotlines daily..back before I got the internet in 1993..

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Long Thongs instead of safety straps
Billy Kid Captain America sweaters
Babes in stretch paints
You needed natural snow or the mountain didn’t open
Skiing in jeans was cool
White Stars, Red Stars, Blue Stars
Head Competitions
Laced leather boots with lace up liners

Hunter specific:

The old red lodge
The swimming pool when they opened the new lodge
Mitch Miller and the Miss Riengold contest
Margo Plattner announcing every hour “Classes for beginners, advanced beginners, intermediates and experts”
Skiing in the summer under the old B lift on plastic stuff
What seemed like a 1,000 buses in the bus parking lot
30-45 minutes lift lines-sometimes longer
Sid's Resturant

Old School baby ;-)

 

[campgottagopee]

I remeber the days of:

LONG SKIS AND LOOSE WOMEN

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Based on old Warren Miller movies...Skiing in the 70s and 80s looked more like one big party..no helmets..big hair was a flying...and of course lots of DMC looking dudes with Moustaches and Fannypacks....hahah

 

[ski_resort_observer]

I remenber:

the drinking age was 18!

 

[SkiDork]

The old Volkl Tigers
Hanson boots
Jet Stix
Head 360s
Nordica Banana boots
Henke leather boots

I used to REALLY be into patches. The more you had, the better you felt!

 

[billski]

I remember when there was cold winters and lots of snow on the ground.

when was that? I don't recall. Ice Age?
maybe if we all went back to denim and plaid shirts and 210cm skis it will come back...

 

[gorgonzola]

olin mark iv's - twin tips?
hexcels, harts and rd's
lange girls and "keep your tips up" posters
the mahre brothers
puffy michelin man coats spewing feathers

 

[billski]

Rossi Stratos were THE ski to have

 

[CapeSkier]

I was in college when Olin Mark !V's were the "in" ski to have. The longer the better, so it seemed.

How about blue jeans and cotton long underwear? Anyone besides me admit to skiing dressed like that? Your jeans would freeze solid outside, then thaw and be wet when you came in for a beer.

 

[CapeSkier]

Oh yeah...proving that my mental attic is in need of a cleaning:

Anyone remember the "retractable binding" of the late '70's? Some genius came up with a device that actually retracted your bindings to your boot after a blowout. I think the company was called Burt. It used thin metal cables and a reel-type device. They had full-page ads in Ski magazine, and were supposedly the coming thing. Wrong-o.

 

[SkiDork]

Oh yeah...proving that my mental attic is in need of a cleaning:

Anyone remember the "retractable binding" of the late '70's? Some genius came up with a device that actually retracted your bindings to your boot after a blowout. I think the company was called Burt. It used thin metal cables and a reel-type device. They had full-page ads in Ski magazine, and were supposedly the coming thing. Wrong-o.

I had a pair of those. Interesting concept. I had them mounted on Olin Mark III S

First day out, they worked as advertised a few times. But then the plate cracked on half. I was pretty bummed, I was excited to have them. I replaced them with Sollys

 

[CapeSkier]

Wow...you are the first person I know of who actually had them. Do you remember how much they cost in relation to regular bindings?

 

[SkiDork]

Wow...you are the first person I know of who actually had them. Do you remember how much they cost in relation to regular bindings?

I think they were very close to what I replaced them with, top of the line Sollys

 

[SkiDork]

here's an ad:

 

[Beetlenut]

"puffy michelin man coats spewing feathers" -- Ha...

How bout the NAVA binding system- a big arm went in back of your calf, and the boots were soft like snowborad boots..

Trying to put the springs back together on the Marker bindings after a blow-out..

Trying to uncurl your hand after riding a ropetow all day..

K2 - 5500's with segmented edges

 

[campgottagopee]

here's an ad:

When I was in college that's the binding that was on all the rentals at our little ski hill.......some scary crap used to happen with those things