Skis you've skied (while we're at it...)

[FigureEleven]

Just the recent years... and just the skis that I spent a lot of time on (no demos or friends skis).

Volant Spatula 186
Nordica W9.1 FF 190
Stockli Stormrider DP 186
Salomon AK Rocket 200
Salomon SuperMountain 194
Tua M3 192
Tua Excalibur Mito 192
Kastle Carving Thesis GP 193
K2 WorkStinx 190
AK King Salmon Prototype 180
AK King Salmon 180
AK Super Salmon Prototype 193
AK No Ka Oi 193
AK No Ka Oi 180
AK Pro Mountain 178
AK Pro 168
AK Hyper Pro 168
AK FIS GS 188
AK FIS SL 166

[HyRUPz]

Many ...

I even skied the pink Atomic racing skis ... back in the early 90s.

Have to say my favorite - Volklz

[hop]

95-97 190 Fischer GTS w/ Riva2
97 188 Rossi VRS w/ voile release&R2 (worthless, returned after one day)
97 188 Tua Montets MX w/ voile release&R2 (w, r.a.o.d.)
98-99 190 BD Boundary w/ R2
99-01 190 K2 Totally Piste w/R2->G3race->G3race&deflex
99-01 190 K2 Piste Race w/ deflex&R2->G3race&TRP
00 193 Fischer MountainX w/ G3race
00-04 190 Olin Outer Limits w/ G3->Linken->UTB
01-03 195 K2 AK Launcher w/ Linken
02-04 180 Volkl Explosiv (V, Wizard, Buddha) w/ Linken or UTB
03-04 180 Volkl V-Pro w/ UTB
04 185 Salomon Pocket Rocket w/ UTB or S900
04-05 189 K2 Hippy Stinx x2 w/ UTB and Freeride
05 185 K2 Piste Pipe w/ UTB
05 189 K2 Made'n Stinx x2 (one stock, one not) w/ UTB

[PacRimRider1]

AK Super Salmon Prototype 193

Is that the ski seen here?


if so how were they?

[Ville]

first years with some rossignol rental skis, i didn't own them but local ski hill had only those skis

then in order:

Atomic AL7 190cm with some shitty tyrolia binding (from flea market, later on shortened skis about 10cm and bend for twintip )
Rossignol KC4 180cm with salomon s500
Salomon Equipe series 3s around 190cm with s900 propulse (din 4-12?)
Rossignol Bandit XX 191cm with pro 120 ("straight" version of bandit)
Völkl G4 with s912ti
Rossignol Powair 179cm with pro180 for pipe and park
Pmgear Bro Model(stiff) with s900(din 9-16)

current quiver is

Bro Models
Powairs
G4(at the moment without binding)

[verbier61]

in no particular order

slim stuff era:
170Kneissl red star
190 dynamic VR17
195 Roy ski GS
195volkl Psomething

mid fats:
180 dynastar intuitiv69
180 Rossi B2
180 scott aztec from rental garbage*

fatty time:
185 pocket rockets
185 gotamas
190 karhu jaks*
188 soft BROs*

rando skis:
180 Trab Freerando*

sure to forget something....
* still in use

[Mechmaster]

Here's a start (the last few seasons or so):

Atomic: RX10, RX11, 9.18, Metron

Dynastar: Legend Pro, Big (Flames), Intuitiv Big, Little Big Fat, Candide, Trouble Maker, Skicross 10, Skicross 9, Skicross 8, Speed 64, Speed 63, Speed SX, Course Comp, Speed Omiglass, Omicarve 10, Omnicarve 9

K2: ModX Pro

Salomon: Various DH and SG, EQ10 3V, EQ10 2V, Pocket Rocket, 1080, AK Rocket, CrossMax 10, Crossmax 9, X-scream series

Rossignol: Bandit XX and XXX, RPM, Scratch BC and FS, 9S Oversize

Volkl: G3 and G31, G4, P30 RS and SL, P40-series, Supersport 4* and 5*, Motion, P50-series, P60-series

[Darkside]

Some pink Dynamics
190cm Pre M4
200cm Atomic ATX or something
Line skiboards (ummm...these were cool at one point, right?)
182 cm Line Darksides
164 Line 1260's
185 Armada ARV's
182 Line Mothership Ti's
186 Volant Spatulas

I think that's about it. Next year's quiver is already in the works.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Is that the ski seen here?


if so how were they?

No...Craig skis the 180 King Salmon.

Do a search on Biglines for a vid showing the Super Salmon from the SIA show.

[FigureEleven]

Is that the ski seen here?

What Tyronne said. BTW... It can not be said enough... Craig is a bad bad man. (bad=mind blowingly amazing skier)

[L8APX]

K2 CV Comps 190
K2 SLC 190
K2 SLC 195
Rossi Viper Z 201
Rossi Viper C 198
Volant Zipline 198
Volant Zmax G 201
*Volkl Crossrangers 190
Salomon Pocket Rockets 185
*Stockli SS pros 186
*Volkl Karma 178
*Dynastar MV2 207 undrilled

*current quiver

Would like to add a spatula type ski or some 183 Bros ths year

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

hmmm...I'll start with most recent and start working backwards to see how many I can remember...

188 PMG Bro Models (stiff model)
186 Stockli Stormrider DP w/Freerides
186 Volant Spatula's (Brand new, never mounted)
180 Rossignol Scratch FS (Brand new, in wrapper)
193 AK No Ka Oi
194 Dynastar SuperNobis
191 Rossignol Bandit XX
177 Salomang 1080
19something Salomang SuperForce 3s (2nd to last generation..with screaming face on it)
203 Salomang Equipe 3s (again, a Pwr8...broke these in half)
19something Salomang SuperForce 3s (the first year they went black, but I broke these half too)
19something Salomang SuperForce 3s (the original blue ones with the orange stripe)
180 Dynastar Vertical Assaults (reaching back into highschool here...)
170 Dynastar Verticals (pre-Assault years..junior highish maybe)
Various Rossi and Dynastar beginner boards in elementary school


(the unmounted Rossi Scratch's & the used NKO's might be for sale FYI...)

Huh..kinda weird lookin back on it, I thought there would have been more.

[Darkside]

Some pink Dynamics
190cm Pre M4
200cm Atomic ATX or something
Line skiboards (ummm...these were cool at one point, right?)
182 cm Line Darksides
164 Line 1260's
185 Armada ARV's
182 Line Mothership Ti's
186 Volant Spatulas

I think that's about it. Next year's quiver is already in the works.

Oh, and I've skied most of the 04-06 fat skis on the market at demo days.

[fiddler]

Gresvig, my first year skiing at Ski Acres back in 1962, segmented metal edges screwed on, cable bindings, leather lace up boots.
Blizzard, cable bindings
Hart Professional, cable bindings
Yamaha, my first step in bindings, fiberglass skis
Rossignol, long and brown with Bessemer plate bindings, wow.
Spaulding
K2 710
Volant Z max
Olin Selkirk, my first shaped midfat ski
Head Monster Cross, my all time favorite
Odyssey emax
Volant Chubb
K2 Four

The above are the skis I've owned, but have demoed a few others:
Bro Model, 3 prototypes
Elan 777
Little Big Fat
Intuitive 74
Snow Rangers
Atomic something or other
Pocket Rocket
Head Monster IM85

[Darksider]

Let's see here

Rossi 150 Rental Skis - the kind where the DIN sole is shorter than the boot length
Dynastar Corniche 180
Rossi DV6 178
K2 SLC 195 - enormous core shot at Killington first day out; I cared then
Rossi 7SK 193
Rossi 7XK 203
Rossi SuperCut 9.9 191 with EPB Floaters
Rossi 9S 198- broke 3 pair - warranty claim on all - Dualtec sucks
Rossi 9X 9.3 191 with Derby's plus Salomon lifters (anyone else remember the short while when GS skis were shorter than slalom skis? Spun first 3 on these heavy ass pups in 98
Salomon XScream 195 same bindings from 9x's
Salomon Teneighty 181 same bindings from 9X's- four pairs on warranty - balls deep in Salomon
Rossi B3 same bindings from 9x's- worst ski ever - ChChChatteriffic
K2 Apache Cheif 181 for a short interim
Volkl Karma 185 with same S900 bindings from old 9X's - 2 pair on warranty this past year - I am a changed man - 1 ski for everyday in CO - custom tailored for Abasin

Coming next year - Mantras, Iggies, or Gotamas - something stiff and fat with little sidecut

Conclusion -

Rossis suck. Boring, whitebread skis. YAWN Why did I waste so much of my precious youth on this shitty brand

Salomon's are a sweet ski to break through a barrier but suck once on the other side. K2's are sweet but break.

Markers suck - how many times can I say this?

Volkl rocks.

Salomon Green Spring binders last 10 fucken years, easy - have like 500 days and 9 pairs of skis on one very brave pair, although one walked out at DIN 13 in the Snowmass Freeride Championships this year on a 25 footer landing in junk ass rotted snow - asking too much maybe? Still torque test dead on balls though

[Monique]

-198 Salomon 2S - first pair of skis ever, combined with Rossi top of the line women's race boots (Course X?) - what the hell were the salespeople thinking, did they not know at one glance by how I stood in those boots that I didn't have a clue?! Bastards. I got by on those skis for the first two years.
-185 Salomon XScream Series - this time it was the Salomon rep's bad advice, and he'd even seen me ski. Bastard. I've been meaning to talk to him about that....
-Second pair of 185 Salomon XScream Series - bought in Chamonix, only myself to blame! Biaatch.
-Salomon 165 Pocket Rockets - great ski for where I was at the time
-Salomon 160 XMax 10 - bought as alt ski for boilerplate days, was kinda fun
...and now I am down to:
-Second pair of 165 Pocket Rockets - almost never ski them, though
-Salomon 165 Xtra Hot - fantastic ski for a girl like me

Also this year I skied 160 K2 Phat Love (good, not great) and 155 Rossi S9 Oversize slalom skis (skied 'em when the top was closed at Mammoth but then 23 opened and we didn't bother changing skis...they were actually pretty fun skiing a couple of inches of new in wipe out and drop out chutes).

I've had the Xtra Hots for 2 years, damn, I'm due!

[midget]

Jesus, here we go....
Grommet Years:
Rossi kiddie skis
Swallow Kiddie Skis
K2 712's
K2 KVC's (4 pairs warrantied in 4 seasons!)

HS and Beyond
K2 X-Tremes
Volant FX3
K2 X-Treme FX
Dynastar Vertical
K2 TRC
Volkl P30 RC (1st Gen)
Dynastar S9 Course
Rossi 9S Pro
Rossi 9S Pro (the 1st gen super sidecut)
Atomic Beta Race 9.20
Atomic Beta Race 10.26
Dynastar Big
Salomon 1080 (1st gen)
Salomon 1080 (2nd gen)
Salomon 1080 (3rd gen)
4FRNT STL
4FRNT MSP
Line Mothership TI
Salomon 1080 Foil
Fischer Big Stix 106
Fischer Rangi 88

FKNA!
I've tried out anything we have in my shop and anything else I can get my hands on to try out. I'm a friggin gear head, what can I say.

[Huckwheat]

This seems like a fun exercise. I am going with the current to old order:

193 Sanouk
190 Explosive 3
180 Nordica something (Tele-still have)
183 Rossi Easy Rider (current Rando)
190 Gotama (Sold)
190 Explosiv 3 (sidewalls trashed)
190 Explosiv 3 (bent)
190 Dynastar BIG (broke)
200 Snowranger (everyday, then Rando, still have unmounted today)
200 Snowranger (broke)
207 P10 (still have)
223 Head womans downhills (gave away)
---ok, that was 1997 forward (all tahoe skis)
---Now, early in the CO days.
200 Rossi Black Widows (tele - still have)
207 Elan GS (lost in powder)
203 Volkl Slalom, of some sort (broke)
203 K2 KVC (just trashed and retired)
203 Dynastar ID 8.1 (some weird cap skis) (trashed and retired)
203 Dynastar ID 8.1 (some weird cap skis) (broke)
200 Dynastar Verticals (broke)
200 Dynastar Verticals (broke)
160 Head something in Jr High.

I ended up adding the history of what happened to each, for my own record.

"To all the skis I loved before.......I'm glad you came along, I dedicate this song, to all the skis I've loved before."

[FLEX]

I just started my list from whatever year Seth's first pro model came out....prior to this would be a long list of 205 SL and GS race boards

204 K2 Morrison (blue)
204 K2 Morrison (blue) 2nd pair warranty
204 K2 Morrison (red)
200 AK Rocket (yellow)
200 AK Rocket (yellow) 2nd pair warranty
200 AK Rocket (yellow) 3rd pair warranty
183 K2 Enemy
190 Volkl Explosive V
190 Volkl Explosive wizard
196 Rossi XXXX Hugos
193 Atomic Big Daddy (blue)

[aspenskibum]

yo, my list is short, cus i'm young, and have a poor and lazy memory

way back in the day i rocked the dynies, the old black background race skis, with different colored (i remember blue and green) foregrounds to show whether the were slalom or gs or whatnot, (circa 91?)
then it was on to good old poorly made rossis, which i am proud to say, i learned to huck cliffs on the rossis 9xs and 9s's, and i am even prouded to say, i broke pair after pair of thier "race" bindings as a 14 year old.
Then it was onto salomon x screams,
Rossie scratches, 170
salomon scream xtra hots 175 (should have been 185)
salomon xtra hots 185
armada city scapes hmm, not mine, just hijjaked from my shop for the season, maybe 176ish
and now its onto
salomon ak rockets,
rocket swallows
gotamas,
and probably some armadas or lines for park

[72Twenty]

Umm, I forgot to add my *ahem* ummm, brief period of monoskis...

185 Duret Free (still have - using it as a shelf in my garage)
175 Snowshark (don't remember the models of the Snowsharks)
185 Snowshark

(hey, don't knock it 'till you try it. Then you can knock it...)

[Crinkle]

180 Head CRX
187 Solomon X-scream 7
179 Head iM85
Bro models
186 Volant Spatula
Line FX 7.3
Pocket Rockets
1080's
Apache Chief

[BushwackerinPA]

164cm Line 1260s
165cm Line Darksides
170cm Atomic Sl-9
165cm Atomic Sl-11
162cm Atomic Metron B5
181cm Atomic GS-11
173cm Atomic Sugar Daddy
183cm Volkl Gotama
183cm Atomic Sugar Daddy
184cm Volkl Mantra

Current
179cm K2 Public Enemy(2 pairs)
173cm Fisher RC4 GS
185cm Atomic Snoop Daddy
189cm K2 Seth Viscous
192cm Atomic Thug

next 170cm Fisher Progressor
then 189cm Hellbent

bump

[Woolybeastman]

It all started back in '84 with:
175 PRE something or other
180 PRE SL
185 Rossi 4M
175 Volkl, it was black with yellow chevron type graphics
205 Rossi 7G
185 Dynastar Speed SF, Tried to kill me, 1st day wearing a helmet, caught an edge at high speed back east, went down, knocked out cold, cracked my brand new helmet in half...
*175 Volkl 7/24 pro
*176 Volkl Gotama 05/06
*170 Black Diamond Verdict 06/07
*175 Volkl Sumo 07/08

* Current Quiver
wishing I had longer skis

[mtnjam]

OK I'll play:

Starting in '86
some rentals here and there
180 Fischer something?
190ish Rossignol 7GS
180ish Rossignol 7SK
190 K2 Velocity
180 K2 Mod X
some more rentals when I was starting to tele
185 K2 Totally Piste
180 Atomic TM22
175 Voile Mountain Surfs
180 Fischer Big Stix 8.6's
186 Dynastar Big Troubs
177 Volkl Mantra
179 Bros (soft)
179 Brohemouths (stiff?) - not skied yet