first pair of skis i fell in love with

[CMSIV]

Nishizawa F1.

[coltrain]

Dynastar vertical Jr's w/ purple and yellow tyrolias....
Pretty sure I did sleep with them.

[Bottleman]

Pretty sure I did sleep with them.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[wooley12]

Really not sure what they were. But they got me from THERE to HERE. I do hear what you all are saying.

[sb]

I bought these skis ca. 1993.
$300 used from a ski patroller at Brian Head, UT.
203cm = badass.

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I've never been that stoked on any piece of gear since.

I had those, mounted up with CRB tele binders. I traded a used creek boat for a set brand new from a buddy who ran the local Ski Chalet store.

[auvgeek]

The first pair of skis I was really stoked on were the 171 "Spaceframe"-vintage 1080s that I got in 7th grade.



I REALLY wanted the original generation 1080s when they came out, but I was in like 5th grade and they were too big for me. In 7th grade, my mom took me to Big White, BC and they had a pair I could actually demo. From the first run, I just LOVED them. I don't think I've ever been so excited about a ski. That was back when the USD was super strong and they were on sale - I had some money from my paper route and managed to convince my mom to split them with me. She had already bought me a pair of head GS-style skis for Christmas, but I told her that I wanted to be a "freeskier" not a "racer". Love ya, momma bear! Anyway, skied 'em for three years until I broke the toe on the 12 din sally binder we had on them.

After taking 3 years off skiing, and coming back this season - my first turns on rockered ski were on a pair of 202 L138s, I think I fell in love all over again. Game changer for sure. But I do kinda wish I had kept some of my older skis so I could really judge my skiing performance, not just the way the skis have helped my ability.

[Bite Me]

from around when Tommy Moe won his Olympic Gold. I could do anything on those and faster than I had ever gone before.

I guess that puts me in the more "senior" end of the spectrum around here...

Bwahahahahaha. "senior" end puleese.

My first "loves" were my Dynamic VR17's from before when TM was born.

[big mike]

ski i bought in '88 to move out west to bridger bowl. dynamic vr 27 super g 212 cms. i learned how to ski montana powder with this ski... then later the volkle snow ranger first non straight ski.

[BmillsSkier]

AR you are a figment of my imagination. Boom! I just blew your mind

-I bought those with my own money on layaway, it took me 4 months of caddying and mowing lawns to pay them off. I remember riding my bike to the ski shop every week with a meager payment, asking to see them and fondling the hell out of them. I clicked into them in my bedroom (with my full gear on) when I got them home the first day (August)

>I'll repost this picture I took from Juneau, so many killer boards on this wall

Wow, that's like a hit-list from my youth. Awesome collection.

I recall liking my Atomic 533ce's (the pink and yellow ones) with some lead weight Tyrollia Free-Flex purple bindings until the top sheet completely de-lamed and the bindings exploded leading me to find out in one spectacular crash in a bump comp what the core of those Atomics really looked like when I gathered the splintered mess of what was left of em.

From there on out it was several Hart F-17s and then all Solly all the time, Original F9's, 3 pair of SF93s, the original 1080, the orange 1080s, Pocket Rockets, the CR 1080 model, 1080 mogul... I don't think any compare nostalgically to that original F9.

[skg143]

AR you are a figment of my imagination. Boom! I just blew your mind

-I bought those with my own money on layaway, it took me 4 months of caddying and mowing lawns to pay them off. I remember riding my bike to the ski shop every week with a meager payment, asking to see them and fondling the hell out of them. I clicked into them in my bedroom (with my full gear on) when I got them home the first day (August)

>I'll repost this picture I took from Juneau, so many killer boards on this wall

Really it is a cool collection,I like it

[Like a Boss]

^^^^Would love to see a pair of new Rossi's with that retro graphic (bottom row, middle, red white and blue). What ski is that?

Is it true that the Salomon Pocket Rocket was the first rockered ski? As in, it came from the factory cambered and ended up rockered?

[ACH]

^^^^Would love to see a pair of new Rossi's with that retro graphic (bottom row, middle, red white and blue). What ski is that?

Those look like ST-650's...
I was also partial to the Strato 102's as well.

[raisingarizona13]

In 96 I really loved my K2 El Camino's. Destroyed em though in one season and the side cut thing did kinda suck in powder.

[Black]

SquadCores

[Millsie]

Rossi Freestyles from the 70's. Wider and softer than race skis for the moguls but were perfect for powder.

[Ted Striker]

Life used to be simpler. One pair of slalom boards, usually bought on closeout and skied every day in every condition for 100 days or so and then thrown in a dumpster or turned into an adirondack lounger if you really loved 'em...

Truer words never spoken.

But that's also why I never really loved any skis from that era either. They either worked or sucked. If the skis worked, and you were having trouble, it meant that you sucked. By comparison, today's ski are fanfuckingtastic, but they're so specific you need a different pair for each day of the week

[MustangSVT]

My Volkl AC30's. Yea, I'm kinda young I guess.

[buckethead]

spent 7 years away from skiing in the 90's so fell in love with these late in the game:

190 nordica W105
190 'sploder
183 axiom

the 'sploders were getting very little attention til the current low snow year, but with firm conditions in january i got them tuned and fell in love with 'em all over again...big time!

they have been my go-to ski during the recent cold/fast groomer spring/winter 2.0 we're having in the east. on any conditions they've made me feel like i can do little wrong, and that's a hard thing to beat.

the axioms have seen much action this season too, since i mounted up the brand new pair that was living in my closet the past couple of years.
similarly groomer-slaying alongside the more obvious powder performance. the edges have dulled so they've stayed in since the end of our june-in-march heatwave.

the W105s have not been skiied all season. i need to sharpen 'em up and give 'em some lovin' this spring. they just suck for skinning (with dukes no less).

[TomCrac]

That wall of skis is awesome.

[GrumpyPilot]

Atomic ARC 200cm aka The Red Sleds. I skied those things until they fell apart, learned to ski powder on them in Utah, they went to Wyoming with me the first time I went. Great ski. Trying to remember what bindings were on them?

[Mr. Multiglisse]

Dynastar MPI Equipe, 195 cm, Salomon 502 bindings, made in France, circa 1974ish. What an awesome ski this was. Three layers of metal, including one functioning as the "Omega core," GS cut and everybody told me they were too short! They had a pretty wide shovel for the time and were great powder skis. I have many fond memories of floating through the woods at Jay on these skis. This was before they called the woods "glades" and put them on the trail map. I used these skis for many years and sadly, they are no longer skiable due to some serious age-related delamination.

[ACH]

Bwahahahahaha. "senior" end puleese.

LMAO!
A careful scan of this thread reveals the seniors.
I might go so far as to say that Mr. Multiglisse has a bit of a lead.

Dynastar MPI Equipe, 195 cm, Salomon 502 bindings, made in France, circa 1974ish. What an awesome ski this was. Three layers of metal, including one functioning as the "Omega core," GS cut and everybody told me they were too short! They had a pretty wide shovel for the time and were great powder skis. I have many fond memories of floating through the woods at Jay on these skis. This was before they called the woods "glades" and put them on the trail map. I used these skis for many years and sadly, they are no longer skiable due to some serious age-related delamination.

[Mr. Multiglisse]

LMAO!
A careful scan of this thread reveals the seniors.
I might go so far as to say that Mr. Multiglisse has a bit of a lead.

Ahh, this might be one of the few areas in which we old farts stay ahead. There are some advantages to getting old: although I'm ONLY 54, I just purchased my first ever season pass at the senior price.

Ten points to whoever can identify the cartoon character on my right ski.

[TomCrac]

From The Pink Panther cartoons ?

[SterlingSpikeDancer]

+1 for my first pair of Salomons, but all I could spring for were the F8s with some 977 Equipes. Bought them with saved money my senior year of high school, were a demo pair from the previous years' ski expo.

I DO however have a pair of the next year F9s in the garage, mounted and with only about 25 days, total, on them that I break out about twice a year. 203s and they fly.