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.

1. Yes
2. Yes it is, isn't it. Until this happens.........

This could be a picture of me lol! I Tele-crashed for 25+ yrs!
I wish I had cash for the retail cost of all the old Tele/Rando/Alpine gear stashed in my attic/garage, I could buy a Weigle or a new Herse with all the goodies! However, those were some good times

Cheers,
Chris

I would modify that saying to --- "free the mind, cable the heel"

i don't know any old ski addicts, but i regret throwing away my Phil Mahre 710FO's. Anyone knows a source for NOS Olin Mark VI?

Whoa! you are bringing back some memories for me. I owned a pair of K2's for years when I was a teenager.

My parents, bless 'em, got the idea that the whole family should learn how to ski. Not just my mom and dad and my younger brother and me, but my mom's sisters and their husbands and kids also. In those days, the late '60's and early '70's, skiing was booming in popularity for everyone -- with the advent of the local ski resorts, it wasn't just for rich and famous anymore. Our local paper, the Detroit Free Press, sponsored a ski school at several local ski areas, and we all went to the Mt. Brighton ski area, near Brighton, Michigan, about an hour's drive away.

We rented skis for the lessons, which were weekly for about six to eight weeks, I think. I was still in grade school, about eleven or twelve years old, and mostly I remember being very cold, and one night my hands hurting so much I cried. Looking back, I realize the clothing we wore was just so inadequate compared to today's skiwear.

The year following, my dad determined to quit renting skis and buy us our own equipment. Somehow he "knew a guy" who sold new equipment from his basement. I remember it set up just like a store with displays, posters, and pamphlets. My skis were white with a black stripe up the middle, with Salomon bindings. My dad's were blue, which I inherited after I grew taller and my dad quit skiing. In those days, your skis standing upright were supposed to be as tall as you could reach over your head.

I used those skis all through college and the first few years of marriage. I believe the fiberglass begain chipping off the top layer, and we got rid of them ages ago.

Now my sons ski and they have their own high-tech modern trick skis. To them, it isn't skiing unless they're flying off something. And they assure me that I can't go skiing with them because "you can't keep up with us, Dad." As if!

I still kinda miss the days of the Atomic red sled 207 GS and my fluorescent green Vokl rentiger 210s Go to the top, point em down and go fast.

the new skis are good.... and If I can get up more often I will upgrade, I am on newish ski (10 years old...but the bindings checked out ok last year when I got new boots)...... Dyna star cross 66's 194.

What I miss is the fluorescent colors and actual stretch ski pants. But I here the colors are coming back, much to my wife's chagrin and I probably don't look as good as I did in stretch ski pants

You and me, both. Hanging around ski resorts in the late 70's/80's had to be experienced to be believed.

I used to have a pair of Olin Mk III S that I loved. I skied them all over the western US, and after several seasons of faithful and extremely fun service, I managed to snap one in half in a mogul field.Went ant bought a (then) brand new pair of K2 512's..... a whole different animal than the Olin's but ton o' fun in a different, new kind of way. Skied the hell out of those, too - Utah, Idaho, Colorado.... even one memorable trip to Innsbruck in 1987. Spent a day jumping out of a helicopter on them too, one fine day in Alberta Canada. That was a hoot.

Anyway, for various reasons we gravitated away from skiing, right about when snowboarding became all the rage. I still have the K2's, and I skied them a couple of years ago. Same as I remembered, but my best friend Vic says I really need to try the new skis... he says they are a totally different experience. If I ever take up skiing again, I probably will.

Strange when I told the ski store guy a couple of years ago that I'm skiing again after 25 years and need new skis at least 190cm long......."advanced" level skier I was, you know.........I walked out of the store with 145s totally humbled and wondering, "why did I just buy these kiddy skis"??

Chombi

My kids are in ski club but we really haven't been this year due the the frequent warmups. I'm glad they ski, the snowboarders are annoying. Ok, well not all of them, but there are a bunch that seem to spend all their time sitting on the slope chatting to each other and just being in the way.

I lost my taste for downhill skiing in the mid 80's, after I discovered cross country skiing and my getting more seriously into cycling to some extent. All of the sudden, going up and down a hill or mountain on skis for whole days and sometimes nights, without really getting anywhere, just didn't make that much sense anymore. It suddenly felt like I was just on some sort of winter carnival ride......... Maybe if we had much bigger hills and mountains to ski on in the midwest, I'd felt different??
I never got tired of cross country skiing though, it related very well with my cycling. By the 90's I just didn't have time and energy to do it anymore because of work. It did not help that cross country ski trails are not as accesible in CA as they were in Wisconsin.
Oh to be in your teens and twenties again!

Chombi

I'm not into skiing but I do have an old ass set of wooden skis! 30s? 40s maybe?

Yep, C&V Skiing is long and skinny, big packs, no lifts - in other words 'earn your turns'.

Pics from a trip to the summit of Mt. Baker, WA.

8000' of vertical; top was icy, middle corn, bottom slush :

My wife does not allow me to talk about any of our ski trips to California, Nevada, Colorado, or Montana in front of the kids.

As for shaped skis, I picked up these Atomic Crimson ti's, and I've probably never skied "better" in my whole life.

Not as fast or as wild as I used to be, but these babies will let me cruise all day long in all sorts of terrain.





The modern boots are so comfortable as well, and allow for fantastic edge control in all terrain.



Yeah, I loved skiing back in the day, but the modern equipment is simply fantastic.

Where in Montana?....... if it was Big Mountain, then the Bierstube was the place for a beer after skiing. The only place I know with headrests above the urinals.

So how about C&V ski bars?

Do you mean the one in Whitefish?

That's a fun spot. Decent food as well.

We usually drove out to Red Lodge though.

Slept at a friend's cabin. Skiing was dirt cheap.

yes , the bierstube in Whitefish..... ski area is Big Mountain.

Pretty in the summer as well.

Heading out to do a little fly fishing this summer with some friends.

Looks like for $100, you and a freind can hit the slopes this weekend for the first annual C&V ski tour....does anyone still run a rope toe?






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On good snow days I break out my 205 E99's and Three pin the lifts.

I find the new skis have gotten too wide and have too side cut for my style. I look for those early 00's skis with such names like heli stinx, piste stinx, and anything TUA.

Me on cino de mayo. Three pin, wool and a chivas jersey. Yes, I forgot to adjust the poles.....

One time, in Vail, a busload of Texans blew into town. I happened to fall in with a few of them one night, and they happened to know where a sorority was having a apres ski party.

Let me just say this..... those Texan boys knew how to have fun, and if they liked you they made sure you had fun, too. Based on that one experience so many years ago, you will never, ever hear me say a bad thing about Texas or Texans.

I don’t think you can ‘ski’ in Texas…it’s some kind’a law I think.

Wasn't Bandini Mtn in Texas?

Well sure, if you’ve got enough wax, I suppose you can ski on anything…even Bandini.

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