I skied on Hart Kings with Look bindings for our downhill team in high school.

This would have been in the mid-70s.

Bright purple with gold accents. Homely, noodley skis.

Impossible edge sets, and to top it off, they were 210s.

I'll never forget my first trip to Lake Tahoe.

I thought I knew it all till I tried skiing in fresh powder with those miserable beasts.

My new this year "shaped" Atomics are thirty times nicer than those, but those sure were great times to be 18, away from home, and skiing out west.

Oh, the stories I could tell.