 Poster: A snowHead
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| DrLawn wrote: |
| Why are "Redsters" Green? |
It's because you've picked them before they're ripe! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@DrLawn, Sorry, you are wrong. It is the presence of Go Faster Stripes.
Much of what is said here is absolutely spot on. I am also considering going onto shorter skis, but for a very specific purpose. I currently race on 165 slalom skis and thinking of moving down to the lighter faster turning 155 skis my wife uses. Now I'm in my 70's I think my strength is not what it was for the longer skis. OK I have a pair of 177 fatter skis for general use on and off piste, but the very stiff, very sidecut, very sharp slalom sks are absolutely fantastic on really firm pistes*, when I can carve short radius turns when other skiers are skidding all over the place.
I suggest the OP sticks to the 160s and concentrates on lessons.
* I hate the term "icy" if the slopes were not covered in ice they would be rock, grass or mud.
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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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| johnE wrote: |
* I hate the term "icy" if the slopes were not covered in ice they would be rock, grass or mud. |
I feel the same but for the opposite reason - unless it's shiny and transparent it's not ice in my book. So many people complain that 'the pistes were a bit icy today' when all they really mean is that there were patches of hard, packed, scraped snow. Anyone who's tried to ski on true ice will know what I'm talking about.
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| Chaletbeauroc wrote: |
I feel the same but for the opposite reason - unless it's shiny and transparent it's not ice in my book. So many people complain that 'the pistes were a bit icy today' when all they really mean is that there were patches of hard, packed, scraped snow. Anyone who's tried to ski on true ice will know what I'm talking about. |
There must be some Scottish in you.
I have often been skiing in a group, when there was general grumbling about the "Ice"...and then a quiet voice says with a Scottish lilt, "That's no' Ice. If ye want to see Ice, try skiing in Sco'land!" 
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The news is from Madsiet .. I'm so jealous.
@Old Fartbag, I'll leave them on the window sill to ripen up then.
I don't have a pair of Redsters of my own .. but I've rented them a couple of times .. the X7 in just 152cm as I was going to be having a go at some moguls.
I thought hey were great for the moguls and just about anything else that was about.
@johnE,
I'm 74 now and I'm starting to realise my limitations ...
No more Volkl P9s in 195cm
So as you do I'm starting to use my wife's skis ...
Its a pitty her underwaer does not fit me too well
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| DrLawn wrote: |
@Old Fartbag, I'll leave them on the window sill to ripen up then.
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....and sprinkle with snow every other day. Nb. Don't use ice, or they'll turn blue. 
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Thanks Old Fartbag I'll do that then.
The tomatoes can go for chutney now.
We don't get snow down here to sprinkle them with .. Can I just rub an ice cube up and down them, I'm fond of blue?
Off subject now but ...
Is it a bad year for sloes? or is it just a bit early ..
We fancy having a go at making "sloe gin" (with all this talk of ice) but my misses could not find any good ones yesterday.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| DrLawn wrote: |
Thanks Old Fartbag I'll do that then.
The tomatoes can go for chutney now.
We don't get snow down here to sprinkle them with .. Can I just rub an ice cube up and down them, I'm fond of blue?
Off subject now but ...
Is it a bad year for sloes? or is it just a bit early ..
We fancy having a go at making "sloe gin" (with all this talk of ice) but my misses could not find any good ones yesterday. |
Here's what to do...
Take 23 ice cubes made from distilled water and put them in the blender. Blend until you have snow. Sprinkle on skis. Rinse and repeat every other day. Simples.
Ps. At 74, you need Sloe Skis as well as Sloe Gin.
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I feel the same but for the opposite reason - unless it's shiny and transparent it's not ice in my book.
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But all snow is just ice in different crystals. What you ae refering to is that blue stuff I call "water ice"
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You know it makes sense.
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| johnE wrote: |
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I feel the same but for the opposite reason - unless it's shiny and transparent it's not ice in my book.
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What you ae refering to is that blue stuff I call "water ice" |
It's probably what I call "Boiler Plate".
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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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| Old Fartbag wrote: |
| johnE wrote: |
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I feel the same but for the opposite reason - unless it's shiny and transparent it's not ice in my book.
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What you ae refering to is that blue stuff I call "water ice" |
It's probably what I call "Boiler Plate". |
Nope. That's definitely not "ice" by my definition.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Chaletbeauroc wrote: |
| Old Fartbag wrote: |
| johnE wrote: |
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I feel the same but for the opposite reason - unless it's shiny and transparent it's not ice in my book.
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What you ae refering to is that blue stuff I call "water ice" |
It's probably what I call "Boiler Plate". |
Nope. That's definitely not "ice" by my definition. |
For me, "Boiler Plate" is that shiny blue-tinged stuff that you can get, when the top layers all blows off....most commonly, I've come across it on the Tignes Glacier, early season.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Water Ice for me is what you get in spring where puddles form during the day then refreezes as a sheet of really hard blue stuff. It is almost entrely flat and basically you just go straight over it. @Old Fartbag, I would describe your stuff as glacier ice.
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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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| johnE wrote: |
| Water Ice for me is what you get in spring where puddles form during the day then refreezes as a sheet of really hard blue stuff. It is almost entrely flat and basically you just go straight over it. @Old Fartbag, I would describe your stuff as glacier ice. |
I'm sure I have seen something similar, after a very windy night, on some sections of the pistes down to La Daille. It mightn't have been quite as bad as on a Glacier - but any grip was impossible (for me, anyway) unless on a razor sharp WC race ski.
I can also remember the bottom of a chairlift in Les Arcs (Christmas time around 20 years ago), where all snow had blown off, leaving sheet ice around the entrance to the lift. I hadn't picked up on this, came in at a speed (not that fast) where I expected to do a hockey stop.....but hit this patch, slid sideways toward a "cliff edge" that dropped down to the side of some building - but caught a convenient pole near the edge, which spun me around and deposited me into the "people free" roped off lanes. 
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Jees peeps! i thought blue ice fell out of the sky
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I've seen an ice field before, right near the bottom of the slope into Leogang, it was not steep at all and it looked like small waves all shiny and transparent. All of us tourist skiers were floundering around on it like Bambi.
But then a quite senior ski instructor came down across it going absalutely straight like a steam train with his jacket flapping in the wind and his long silver hair flowing out behind.
He looked like the ski God of the mountain.
By serendipity I bumped into him again years later in 1996 when he was the sommeleire at the posh four star hotel in Leogang..
I said to him, "I recognise you from skiing like a God down this hill".
He explained to me that yes, it was him. It was his ski school, and this was his Hotel etc.
It was his village and his mountain 
And we were very welcome.
One of those moments.
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@DrLawn, Nice!
Back in the day, there was an odd night where it rained in the early evening and then froze solid overnight. The PdS went from white to grey. Literally frozen water from top to bottom. My guests were not appreciative. Big lunch ensued.
On "Water ice" late season there was a river that froze overnight on the then itinerary into Morgins. I carved pretty perfect tracks into it on my freshly sharpened 7SKs ...
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@under a new name, Its great when you can get that "feeling". 
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