Your Most Recent Skiing-related Purchase ?

Just bought a pair of 09 Fischer Watea 101 off sierraskis.  Now just need some light AT Bindings.

Smith I/O in a sweet looking green rim/strap combo. Best goggles I have owned.

Our ski season here has 4-5 weeks max left so I'll be hunting around for a cheap end of season sale jacket/pants I spose as mine are getting ratty.

For my wife:
Rossi Voodoo SC80 155 with integrated bindings (350)
Black Diamond Mittens (29)
Zeal Polarized Goggles (35)

For me:
New Columbia Titanium Pants (55)

Thanks STP

New Gear purchased for this season:

K2 Apache Outlaws

K2 Apache Recon

Tecnica Dragon 100 Ski Boots

K2 4-Speed Ski Poles

Season Pass at Stevens Pass WA

New Helmut with built in Headphones

Used Specialized FSR Enduro mountain bike - to get stay in shape for skiing !

 Look PX 15 binders to replace my old Looks that broke

Oops... gear acquisition syndrome strikes again!

186cm Dynastar Big Trouble - that'll be my fat ski round these parts. Stupid blow-out deal at a cash'n'carry style store. They had one pair of BTs dumped in with loads of '08 and '09 Troublemakers - so I grabbed 'em. The downside is they came with Rossi Scratch Axium 100s! Great pairing - NOT! So I told them not to mount the bindings - I'll sell on the Axiums and either get my spare LD12s mounted or hold out for a P14 reissue .

Smith Variant Brim Helmet
Mountain Hardware base layers
Wigwam socks

Next:
Arc'Teryx Beta AR shell


Lola needs new midfats about 90 or so underfoot. Leaning to Lines. 

I'm looking at the I/O's for my back up pair of goggles, to compliment my Turbo Fan Goggles.

A new pair of Salomon Falcon CS Pro boots

I just pruchased a new pair of 2010 Nordica Spitfire Pros in 170cm, let it snow!

Heh, heh, heh.





Edited by volantaddict - 9/16/09 at 12:47pm

Hey, VA

A Fat Boy V2?

Just bought my first pair of Blizzards, the Supersonics in 174cm!

As the story goes, Shane McConkey wanted to call them Fat Bastards, but Mike Myers owns the rights to that name, as it was the above pictured character he created for the Austin Powers movies, so they were dubbed simply Machete FB.

Fat Boy is part of the name of Atomic Powder Plus.

The Machete FB, while having the same footprint at the V2 Genesis Chubb, has a wood core instead of foam, and are MUCH stiffer. A big mountain destroyer of crud rather than a floppy powder ski. I wonder if I'll have the stones to ski them properly, they are significantly stiffer than anything else I have, including my Machete Hucksters.

 

I picked up an Icebreaker sweater a couple weeks ago when I was in New Zealand.

I forget. Was that before or after the two day lift ticket on this chair? 




Yet another teaser for the NZ Gathering TR that needs to be written - soon  

ooohh, Volantaddict,

oddly i find fascination with your addiction .. my wifies first purchased pair were Volant Vertex SuperKarves .... and as it goes, busts the crud   and still loved (both ski and wife)

kids help one buy for a non selfish, Head Lite Thangs w/railflex for my 2nd daughter, for my dark side daughter was a entry level Silence snowboard and Burton Mink boots ... a reward for grades ... as she wishes a side activity to skiing.

for me, a preseason planning neccessity .... BEER ... Troutslayer, John's (grocery) White Ale - Amana brewery, Shinerbock, Guinness, Bass, Fat Tire, Becks ... oh heck, too many, but there's lots of planning!

 Just wanted to say that I'm drooling with anticipation for the re-release of the FKS Turntables!!!  

Although not purchased yet, they will be as soon as they are available!!

I am too, but they ain't gonna be cheap. I want to put some on my new skis but it is hard to justify buying the new ones, when I have 4-5 pr of the old ones that are perfectly good. 

Can you ever really have to many LOOK metal turntable bindings? Me thinks NOT

Besides, won't the new "release" have a wider brake option???

Yeah, I am putting these on an 84 waisted ski, I can bend the TT08c's brakes out a bit and they will be fine. 

A purchase of some Oakley Seth Morrison edition Crowbar Goggles for $36.95

(Tramdock)

Ski wax.

Tecnica Dragon 120 HiPerFit

Can't wait till it snows enough to go skiing...

I got a pair of 08 177 Elan m888 off geartrade in primo condish, and moved the toe only back 1.5cms as recommended by dawgcatching and philpug...been lusting over these for some time, and hope I'm not disappointed...

Have to decide if this is better than the 174 Bliz 8.7 magnum I've been using for 2 seasons...then one will go away...
And wax and jacket and goggles and helmet and etc and etc....

Done and done...

Just bougth these for the wife. Think they will work out perfectly.

Got a pair of these just yesterday, hoping to get some baron bindings on them for the season.  I've also purchased a pair of salomon ghost boots so 'i'm ready for the snow!

 Just gettin back into it this year so I needed the full compliment of equipment, so here goes:

Dynastar Contact Groove skis
Tecnica Dragon 120 boots
Leki Speed S poles
Smith Variant Brim helmet
Oakley A-frame goggles
Hestra Heli gloves
Helly Hansen 3/4 length base layer bottom
Helly Hansen Charger zip base layer top
Kjus Formula pants
Kjus Comfort zip midlayer
Helly Hansen STX zip midlayer
Smartwool PhD socks
Marker rolling ski bag
Marker boot bag

Good thing I sold my motorcycle this year!  I don't even want to add up all the new gear.

Just got a pair of Dukes last night.