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Skis Getting Narrower -- Did Colorado Ski Shops Not Get the Message?

AngryAnalyst

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My Billy Goat experience has been they are great here in fresh light powder. When the snow is other than deeper powder Kartels are a better choice for me. Billy Goats are not my first choice for bumps that aren't covered in about of foot of cold smoke. Maybe the denser snow in PNW has your fitness peaked at level unavailable here?

I got a pair of lighter glass 189 BG custom last year, fwiw they are the best wide skis I have ever used in bumps. I’ve never been on Kartels though.
 

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My Billy Goat experience has been they are great here in fresh light powder. When the snow is other than deeper powder Kartels are a better choice for me. Billy Goats are not my first choice for bumps that aren't covered in about of foot of cold smoke. Maybe the denser snow in PNW has your fitness peaked at level unavailable here?
I got a pair of lighter glass 189 BG custom last year, fwiw they are the best wide skis I have ever used in bumps. I’ve never been on Kartels though.

Kartels will pivot really easily, I found it didn’t matter which width or length I had, I could easily pivot them around in bumps. I found the BG to be better at skiing bumps with flow and shaping the turns.

YMMV.

I look forward to trying my Billy Goats in fresh, light powder. Maybe during my Gathering road trip :crossfingers:
 

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Did something akin to that everytime I went out to play in the snow as a kid. Also did it again a couple of times over the last few years when we've gotten the occasional "snowpocalypse" around DC and I wanted to go hike around the neighborhood.
 

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Huh. That’s a new one to me. And yet it makes so much sense.

Were you never six? Did you not have galoshes? Did you not have a mom? (Some kids don't, I know. Just curious.)
 

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Were you never six? Did you not have galoshes? Did you not have a mom? (Some kids don't, I know. Just curious.)

I’m so tempted to say “No, I was born this way.” But I didn’t. Or did I?

My dad was a ski patrolman, so if there was snow, I was properly over-bundled up, I’m sure. Galoshes I had, Wonder bread plastic bags, nope.

From age 6 to 10 we lived in Buenos Aires, and the one time we made a trip to Bariloche there wasn’t any snow. But I got to pet and feed some some llamas.

And though I had (still have) a mom, we also had a maid in BA, but again, no snow.
 
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Wonder bread plastic bags, nope.

"Wonder bread builds strong bodies 12 ways!" I always wanted to eat Wonder Bread and sport some nice guns like the kid in the ad, but ma insisted that whole grain home baked bread was better. Wet feet in the winter were supposed to build character.
 

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As I said, never skied up there! Thankfully I had extra gloves ...

Crab fishing gloves... Showa or Atlas insulated orange rubber ones. $13. Secrets of the PNW skiers' secret secrets club.
 

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Crab fishing gloves... Showa or Atlas insulated orange rubber ones. $13. Secrets of the PNW skiers' secret secrets club.

I’ve got some insulated gardening gloves, which I use for gardening when it’s colder, but it seems like they would make decent wet weather ski gloves.
 

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Yeah, you just can't find narrow skis anymore. I mean, I skied with Valhalla Powder Cats last year and they wouldn't rent anything less than 115! :ogcool:


:roflmao:
 

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