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yep....i have way too many skis also...am awaiting my 6th set as we speak...will be on the quiver redux plan when i get back from tahoe......i think it's ok to be a gear whore though...you love something so much you get carried away...p.s....in relation to the OP, i am delighted to say none of my skis are piste skis...
okbye
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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snowpatrol, yeah, but you probably can't ski on piste.
Can you ski bumps?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| rungsp wrote: |
A powder day.
My daughter looking down from the chair as we went over a piste:
"So Dad, today Pistes are basically for people who can't ski"
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Actually, ironically these days, both piste and off piste are for people who can't ski, but I know what she meant 
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For what it's worth, woz exactly the same last year in the end of season sale in "Le Vieux Campeur" in Albertville. Any number of vast great planks with improbable graphics.
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The thing I've noticed most is it really is where you ski, I've been in Mayrhofen for the past two seasons where it's quite the opposite of my previous experience (winters in Alpe d'Huez, Deux Alpes, Valloire, Tahoe, etc), here in Austria its the wannabees riding around on their Atomic Uber-SLRGTI's with pants so tight you get a very god view of the male cameltoe whether you want it or not!
There's some good deals to be had at the end of season on some decent twin tips if you're looking whereas all the gaper junk is nowhere to be seen (well, slight exaggeration there!!), and as I've read somewhere before riding fat skis on piste is a bit like masturbation, you know its bad but its so much fun you can't give it up ; )
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No because pistes are ghey
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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the_doc, fair point. Hard to spot anything other than fairly run of the mill piste skis in La Thuile. Whereas I saw a lot of the off-piste brigade with skis taller and fatter than them in Courmayeur, there were very few of these in La Thuile. It also had the largest concentration of 'old' equipment than I've seen for a long time. Lots of 80s and early 90s straight skinny skis and lots of fartbags from a time when they were the height of fashion. Couldn't work out whether the retro look was cool again or whether these were just people that have been using the same old gear for 15 years or more.
My year old skis felt about the newest things in resort. Even the hire equipment was 3 or so seasons old.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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EB stock whatever their market research tells them will sell. The stuff in the sales is literally what didn't sell!
The market trend is no doubt toward fatter skis whether you need them or not. But I'd say the most popular width is still around 75-80 mm for the vast majority of piste skiers. Even in BC Canada 100mm+ widths are relatively uncommon.
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You know it makes sense.
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| the_doc wrote: |
| The thing I've noticed most is it really is where you ski....... |
Agreed, from my scientific observation; Verbier - loads of fatter skis about the place. Kitzbuhel - loads of GS 'n SL about (and these guys knew how to ski them correctly too)
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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CEM, wasn't it Plake who said something along the lines of "you can't hide in the bumps" (can't remember the exact quote..) - which I tend to agree with - on piste you can get away with a lot, off piste on modern kit you can get away with a lot, but in the bumps... you can't hide...
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Poster: A snowHead
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| uktrailmonster wrote: |
| Even in BC Canada 100mm+ widths are relatively uncommon. |
I doubt this is an absolute - liftline for Peak chair at Whistler on a softish day, Red Mountain/Revelstoke on a powder day - probably untrue
Silver Star/Sun Peaks on a blue groomer probably true.
I'm quite happy to be perspirational -100mm+ skis aren't that bad on piste (unless its boilerplate), I managed a short radius lesson pretty well and on another occasion left everyone on piste skis for dead in a trees lesson.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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offpisteskiing, Plake's now skiing in Chamonix off piste on modern gear. Dalbello Virus and Elan something fat when I saw him in the midi lift queue the other day.....
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| offpisteskiing wrote: |
| CEM, wasn't it Plake who said something along the lines of "you can't hide in the bumps" (can't remember the exact quote..) - which I tend to agree with - on piste you can get away with a lot, off piste on modern kit you can get away with a lot, but in the bumps... you can't hide... |
I find that as long as you're not under a chair bumps are THE best place to hide - no beggar else seems to ski them. Given that, though, the mystery is how they form.
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Well, if your around the 'Hof that'll be me and the missus!
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but in the bumps... you can't hide...
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You can if the bumps are big enough
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| fatbob wrote: |
| uktrailmonster wrote: |
| Even in BC Canada 100mm+ widths are relatively uncommon. |
I doubt this is an absolute - liftline for Peak chair at Whistler on a softish day, Red Mountain/Revelstoke on a powder day - probably untrue
Silver Star/Sun Peaks on a blue groomer probably true.
I'm quite happy to be perspirational -100mm+ skis aren't that bad on piste (unless its boilerplate), I managed a short radius lesson pretty well and on another occasion left everyone on piste skis for dead in a trees lesson. |
I agree, but the vast majority of skiers are still on sub 100 mm skis. That's why I used the word "relatively". I'm not saying 100+ is uncommon in absolute terms. You see plenty out there, particularly on big powder days, and I prefer them myself in the right conditions.
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CEM, I think you nicked that from someone's Epicski tagline, non? 
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uktrailmonster, Funny was in Banff a while ago and you could see the diffrence in the resorts
Norquay had mostly 69-72 waisted skis
Lake Louse and Sunshine had mostly 74-92 waisted skis and Kicking horse and Revelstoke everything was above 100 
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Kicking Horse was pretty funny, I didn't see anything below about 100 apart from my dads apaches.
Lake Louise, most on piste skis... then after it dumped, same number of people on the mountain but barely any piste skis apart from lower down.
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I liked this thread:
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Hee hee hee 
So I was in one of my favourite rental shops (Europe, not Chamonix) earlier in the week. Discussion between the staff ongoing as to why there was a pair of Volkl Kuros (132mm waist) that had been left in the corner of the shop all week.
Shop owner gets involved giggling about how so many folks tip up with fat off piste skis and find themselves skiing on piste all the time.
He loves it as he wins twice.
1. he gets to sell silly fat skis at full price to tourists despite protesting that they're silly and
2. they then leave them in his shop as they spend all their time on his rental piste skis.
Ker-ching!
Fat skis, most of the time, for most people not in AK, UT, CO, WY are a fashion. (That was his opinion. He makes his living out of the business and is pretty clued up. Whether or not it's mine ((it is)) is not pertinent).
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