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  1. #1
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    Fill out my quiver

    At the moment I only have three pair of skis.

    DPS RPC 192 cm.
    Rocker 2 122 192 cm.
    DPS Lotus 138 192 cm.

    What do you think I'm missing?

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    MX 88's, Brahmas, Kendos or the like.

  3. #3
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    Motherships.
    "Zee damn fat skis are ruining zee piste !" -Oscar Schevlin

    "Hike up your skirt and grow a dick you fucking crybaby" -what Bunion said to Harry at the top of The Headwaters

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    Obviously...

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    Quote Originally Posted by LiveLarger View Post
    What do you think I'm missing?
    Snow?

    If you have a quiver that starts at 115 mm waist, I want to go where you're skiing... that's about where mine ends.

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    GS race ski, for the inevitable groomer days. Cheap used from any fall ski swap.
    Quote Originally Posted by powder11 View Post
    if you have to resort to taking advice from the nitwits on this forum, then you're doomed.

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    A ski with some fucking backbone. Enforcers, Coshises, etc.
    No longer stuck.

    Quote Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn View Post
    Just an uneducated guess.

  8. #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by sheldonm View Post
    Snow?
    Quote Originally Posted by sheldonm View Post

    If you have a quiver that starts at 115 mm waist, I want to go where you're skiing... that's about where mine ends.
    I ski in Norway. If you ski on the Norwegian west coast, then you can ski untracked pow 7 out of 10 days all winter. 200 inches a month is common. I also helied two weeks in Haines. No shortage of pow there either.

    Quote Originally Posted by El Chupacabra View Post
    GS race ski, for the inevitable groomer days. Cheap used from any fall ski swap.


    Yeah, thats a good suggestion. Do you have anything to recommend? I would like something from the “fun era” where they had a lot of side cut. Are there any that aren’t true race skis, but behave similarly?

    I also would like a ski that is great at shitty conditions. Think refrozen garbage conditions.


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    Quote Originally Posted by I've seen black diamonds! View Post
    MX 88's, Brahmas, Kendos or the like.
    yep, or MX 98s.

    I ski in Norway. If you ski on the Norwegian west coast, then you can ski untracked pow 7 out of 10 days all winter. 200 inches a month is common. I also helied two weeks in Haines. No shortage of pow there either.

    yum.
    In search of the elusive artic powder weasel ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by LiveLarger View Post
    Yeah, thats a good suggestion. Do you have anything to recommend? I would like something from the “fun era” where they had a lot of side cut. Are there any that aren’t true race skis, but behave similarly?
    No specific recommendations. I just buy whatever's cheap & used, as a replacement for my last heavily-damaged pair of GS skis. My current pair are some $40 Elan GSX (IIRC -- they have green topsheets, around 191cm length, and probably from around 2005).

    I think the skis that used to be marketed for skiercross were similar to GS skis, but more turny.
    Quote Originally Posted by powder11 View Post
    if you have to resort to taking advice from the nitwits on this forum, then you're doomed.

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    PM sent

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    Quote Originally Posted by LiveLarger View Post
    At the moment I only have three pair of skis.

    DPS RPC 192 cm.
    Rocker 2 122 192 cm.
    DPS Lotus 138 192 cm.

    What do you think I'm missing?
    Wailer 105s
    www.dpsskis.com
    www.point6.com
    formerly an ambassador for a few others, but the ski industry is... interesting.
    Fukt: a very small amount of snow.

  13. #13
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    Strictly resort based?

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    Quote Originally Posted by XavierD View Post
    Strictly resort based?
    Not following your question now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LiveLarger View Post
    Not following your question now.
    Are you skinning or just riding charlifts/helicopters with this theoretical new ski?

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    Quote Originally Posted by adrenalated View Post
    Are you skinning or just riding charlifts/helicopters with this theoretical new ski?
    It will be for chairlifts. I go skinning with my RPC. If that's too heavy, then the trip is too long for my fitness level anyway. I think I'm covered as far as heliskiing goes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LiveLarger View Post
    It will be for chairlifts. I go skinning with my RPC. If that's too heavy, then the trip is too long for my fitness level anyway. I think I'm covered as far as heliskiing goes.
    Something between 90-105ish with some substance for when it's not great or the snow is heavier.
    ON3P Vicik / Wrenegade 102
    Blizzard Bonifide
    Armada ARVti or Invictus 95 ( I think this would be my first choice based on your other skis)
    DPS 99 Hybrid

    Or something in the sub 80mm range with some side cut and strong edge bite for carving.

    Or a Park ski.

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    Fail - you need 202 138s for heliskiing.

    Something like the Cochise would be my recommendation.

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    Either go with some Humilities or the Compensators. Most people opt for the latter.
    Move upside and let the man go through...

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    ^^^ Snicker.

    my quiver looks like mostly Compensators.
    but I am all that and a bag of chips, so I need skis that can keep up.

    In search of the elusive artic powder weasel ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by LiveLarger View Post
    At the moment I only have three pair of skis.

    DPS RPC 192 cm.
    Rocker 2 122 192 cm.
    DPS Lotus 138 192 cm.

    What do you think I'm missing?
    Moment Deathwish

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    I can't believe nobody asked to see pictures of your wife, mom, girlfriend or sister.

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    Norway? yes, need to see pics.

    Also, Sierra Trading Post had some Blizzard 8.5s on sale, if you can get them shipped cheaply enough...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pukesno View Post
    I can't believe nobody asked to see pictures of your wife, mom, girlfriend or sister.
    Dude, his handle is "LiveLarger".... you into LiveLargeWife pics??

    And yeah, the Compensator seems like the right call here
    sproing!

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    Billy goats cause everyone needs to live at least once
    I need to go to Utah.
    Utah?
    Yeah, Utah. It's wedged in between Wyoming and Nevada. You've seen pictures of it, right?

    So after 15 years we finally made it to Utah.....


    Thanks BCSAR and POWMOW Ski Patrol for rescues

    8, 17, 13, 18, 16, 18, 20, 19, 16, 24, 32, 35

    2021/2022 (13/15)

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