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09-22-2021, 11:17 AM #26
I told you kids that shaped skis and fat skis were just a fad...
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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09-22-2021, 11:29 AM #27
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09-22-2021, 11:31 AM #28
More money will be in the first standard deviation on that bell-curve, but I think it's pretty short-sighted for a ski shop not to carry 1-2 options as a pow ski, or even some narrower options. Someone remotely knowledgeable can spot the quality of a ski shop and know their grit if they're willing to exclude The other 32% of skiers in the 2nd and 3rd SDs buying narrow and fat skis.
Even if I were buying a 90-100mm standard ski, I would exclude the shop from my list on principle alone.
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09-22-2021, 11:36 AM #29
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09-22-2021, 11:45 AM #30
I guess I have a whole quiver of snowboards then and I am certainly not having fun at all.
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09-22-2021, 11:59 AM #31
How many people do you know that bought pow skis off the rack at a brick and mortar ski shop?
The days of pow skis aren't done, but the days of people walking into a shop and buying a brand new 120 waisted ski are pretty much gone in most locations.
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09-22-2021, 12:01 PM #32
90% of dentist tourists don't ski powder anyways, the other 10% get a bro deal or buy indie skis or online.
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09-22-2021, 12:05 PM #33Registered User
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09-22-2021, 12:06 PM #34
The days of >110 underfoot pow skis are gone...
Love it. Assume the customer knows basically nothing. Maybe be like “well, this is the widest we stock and they float better than the 106s of old but what are you looking for?” Or something. I dunno. A dealer can’t order stuff?
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09-22-2021, 12:19 PM #35
Dumb ass take. Maybe he should move to NH.
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09-22-2021, 12:22 PM #36
This store carried Blizzard, but nothing wider than the Cochise 106; Nordica, but nothing wider than the Enforcer 104; Armada ARV 106, Black Crows Atris, Rossignol Experience. I thought that it was strange. I think that the person was just one of those typical ski bum town guys who views himself as a know-it-all rockstar of the hill.
I think that this shop, which used to have the best end of season sale in town, just tired of selling it's [not so popular to the minions] boards at 50% off in April.
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09-22-2021, 12:24 PM #37indentured servant
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Back in the old days all the cool kids had a set of super G or DH boards in the closet, whether to channel Scott Schmidt or rip groomers. I would say the same for pow skis today, they're in the closet for the best days and the 96-106 get used the most.
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09-22-2021, 12:24 PM #38
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09-22-2021, 12:28 PM #39
good to know.
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09-22-2021, 12:35 PM #40
Most tourists are fine on 100mm
Better on hard pack. Skiable in pow.
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It’s hard to find deep pow these days as a tourist unless you hike, heli, or get lucky.
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09-22-2021, 12:38 PM #41
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09-22-2021, 12:57 PM #42
This is a good point. Certainly the case with me - had the same pow skis for 7 years but rotate through a new pair of 95-110 skis pretty much every season. Pow skis are usually ridden in the best conditions much less frequently so I don't think as much about what specifically I would want to change in the ski since everything is awesome. But when I'm on a certain ski 50+ days a year I start to get the itch to try different things
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09-22-2021, 01:09 PM #43
So these m Free 108’s in my office are good for pow or not?
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09-22-2021, 01:45 PM #44
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09-22-2021, 01:52 PM #45
The days of >110 underfoot pow skis are gone...
Oh for fucks sake. Assuming all are modern rockered skis, a 120 something is better in powder than a 110 something which is better than a 100 something. Why the fuck are we talking about this? Has this place turned into Aplinezone? Is Greg here?
Try to take away my Mordecais and give me a 105 something. Try it. I will fight you.Last edited by EWG; 09-22-2021 at 05:43 PM.
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09-22-2021, 02:04 PM #46
The days of >110 underfoot pow skis are gone...
Haha this thread made me laugh.
~10 skis in my quiver…all pretty current shapes/models…apparently I missed the memo that 110mm is the new 120mm.
My quiver waists:
118mm
116mm
115mm
112mm
112mm
106mm (selling)
104mm
99mm
96mm
95mm (a 154mm tipped Line Blade so doesn’t count as a 95mm).
And I was just looking at some Pescados (125mm)?
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09-22-2021, 02:04 PM #47
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09-22-2021, 02:08 PM #48
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09-22-2021, 02:38 PM #49
PCMR and DV had about 5-6 good pow days last season when I left the Rustler 11s in the stable in favor of the Lhasa Fats......most on a weekend. But, it's only 45 mins to Alta and 1.25 hrs. to Pow Mow.
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09-22-2021, 02:44 PM #50Registered User
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2nd to that. I still own Renegades but have been really surprised by the float on newer, skinnier skis in my quiver. So much so that I relegated my Rens to tech bindings so they only come out inbounds on the deepest of the deep days.
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