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post #151 of 198
4/7/08 at 9:46pm
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Originally Posted by Dino View Post
Search your feelings...Kids in the park rule, they do...
Absolutely!

(just started a thread on that)
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post #152 of 198
4/7/08 at 10:01pm
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Originally Posted by DropCliffsNotBombs View Post
The Mantras carve the crap out of groomers! Only a sucky skiing gaper wouldn't know that! Torsionally stiff, metal laminate, and a perfect sidecut radius for skiing anything steeper than crowded, flat, blue runs. What are you surprised about?
Then again, you actually believe that lift-served, controlled, and patrolled terrain is real backcountry... just because it says so on some trail map!! Ha, ha, ha....
Ha, Ha, Ha is right! Really original clever post!

Yeah the Mantra is the greatest carver ever! Whatever :
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post #153 of 198
4/7/08 at 10:06pm
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Originally Posted by PhilT View Post
Captain Strato I hate to tell you this but most racers I know are "Rec skiers".

Did you presume that racers live and sleep in their suits?
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post #154 of 198
4/7/08 at 10:11pm
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Originally Posted by Captain_Strato View Post
Careful who you fawn over.
I'm not fawning over anyone. Trust me on that.

I was just amused that Dug "remembered" some of those comments from back when. You sort of have to admit that some of this is pretty funny coming from someone who walked away from one of the fat ski Meccas of the galaxy and the absolute deep snow epicenter of the planet. Especially since some pretty seriously ripping folks ski there on those fat boards.
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post #155 of 198
4/7/08 at 10:17pm
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Originally Posted by Captain_Strato View Post
Did you presume that racers live and sleep in their suits?
Well going off the evidence posted here...



I figured it might be a possibility
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post #156 of 198
4/7/08 at 10:24pm
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Originally Posted by spindrift View Post
I'm not fawning over anyone. Trust me on that.

I was just amused that Dug "remembered" some of those comments from back when. You sort of have to admit that some of this is pretty funny coming from someone who walked away from one of the fat ski Meccas of the galaxy and the absolute deep snow epicenter of the planet. Especially since some pretty seriously ripping folks ski there on those fat boards.
Right - remembered.

I can search every post you've made on this forum, and quote them all.

As far as "walking away" from a fat ski mecca; if you love Baker, it's all yours. I've posted my views on Baker, and I'll take any mountain in CO over it. I'd bet a quiver that most people would.

But, you gotta love where you are.

What you consider "seriously ripping folks", is your opinion, and you're entitled to it. But, it's only yours.

The one guy I'd consider "seriously ripping" that we've both skied with is Posaune - the guy's a pleasure to watch. And, he has class.
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post #157 of 198
4/7/08 at 10:25pm
This thread has nearly everything. :
Not only that, but in six pages, no one has busted out Godwin's law. :



yet
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post #158 of 198
4/7/08 at 10:30pm
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Originally Posted by Cirquerider View Post
This thread has nearly everything. :
Dude, you are tempting fate.
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post #159 of 198
4/7/08 at 11:44pm
Just posting to let everyone know that I will have to recuse myself from this little thread to go ski powder tomorrow. I'll probably be on fat skis and it is more than likely that at one point during the day I will be on groomers.
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post #160 of 198
4/8/08 at 12:18am
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Originally Posted by PhilT View Post
I'll probably be on fat skis and it is more than likely that at one point during the day I will be on groomers...
... arcing like the freak I am!

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post #161 of 198
4/8/08 at 5:32am
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Originally Posted by Captain_Strato View Post
You're right, racers are better.
The sad (for city folk like me) truth is that the folks that grow up in the mountains can do it all. They're the racers and ex-racers, but they're also the ones who climb, hike backcountry and ski technical lines like it's nothing.
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post #162 of 198
4/8/08 at 6:52am
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Originally Posted by PhilT View Post
Just posting to let everyone know that I will have to recuse myself from this little thread to go ski powder tomorrow. I'll probably be on fat skis and it is more than likely that at one point during the day I will be on groomers.
Do I smell a TR:
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post #163 of 198
4/8/08 at 8:32am
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Originally Posted by Cirquerider View Post
This thread has nearly everything. :
Not only that, but in six pages, no one has busted out Godwin's law. :



yet
By gum, you're right -- no hits on "nazi."

I know I've said it on TGR, and I think I've said it here, but I don't ski fatties for bottomless pow conditions.

Frankly, I'll ski anything in bottomless pow. 20+ years ago, I used to hike ridges at Val d'Isere with my K2 610 FOs on my shoulder, and it was still probably the best skiing I've ever had.

What I love about my 136mm-wide Praxis, and even my 99mm-wide Bros, is that they make shallower or less beautiful snow feel more like bottomless pow than my skinnier skis ever could.
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post #164 of 198
4/8/08 at 8:39am
People still really think that fat skis are made only for powder? Well I'll be damned!
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post #165 of 198
4/8/08 at 10:14am

Which is the dark side?

Certain statements in this debate remind me of the silly roadie v. MTBer divide. Which is the dark side?

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." Yoda to Anakin Skywalker

"Can we all get along?" Rodney King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgiR0...eature=related

Oh, and yes, I agree the quotes are whack, but some of the ripostes in the thread were just as whack since we're just talking about sliding on snow...
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post #166 of 198
4/8/08 at 1:19pm
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Originally Posted by Dino View Post
just talking about sliding on snow...
What!

You're either a heathen or a nazi!
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post #167 of 198
4/8/08 at 1:34pm
I laughed.
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post #168 of 198
4/8/08 at 1:45pm
Next topic:
Flying saucer or Tobaggon ?
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post #169 of 198
4/8/08 at 1:46pm
Skiing is like golf.
Good players play well with any club.
Bad players play bad no matter what club.
They buy all kinds of clubs trying to get better.
It's not the arrow.......it's the Indian.
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post #170 of 198
4/8/08 at 1:53pm
And I'm deeply offended if a level six Indian is using a level seven arrow!



Dave
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post #171 of 198
4/8/08 at 2:52pm
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Originally Posted by dauwhe View Post
And I'm deeply offended if a level six Indian is using a level seven arrow!



Dave
(gooberhead counting pairs of skis in quiver.....goob is one bad indian).......used to have several sets of clubs too......might have to throw skis in pond too......uugghh
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post #172 of 198
4/8/08 at 2:58pm
The widest skis I've ever skied were 75mm. True story.
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post #173 of 198
4/8/08 at 3:38pm
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Originally Posted by alpinedad View Post
What!You're either a heathen or a nazi!
heh heh, that's funny; didn't someone mention Godwin's Rule way up there somewhere?

Anyway, I must be a heathen cuz the only places I skied this year were Tahoe & Aspen. I've gotta get out more...
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post #174 of 198
4/8/08 at 5:15pm
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Originally Posted by Trekchick View Post
Next topic:
Flying saucer or Tobaggon ?
I'm amazed that some people still think saucers are only for deep snow!

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JF
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post #175 of 198
4/8/08 at 5:30pm
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Originally Posted by 4ster View Post
I'm amazed that some people still think saucers are only for deep snow!

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JF
You're gonna need more popcorn :
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post #176 of 198
4/8/08 at 7:48pm
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Originally Posted by Trekchick View Post
You're gonna need more popcorn :


JF
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post #177 of 198
4/8/08 at 7:48pm
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Originally Posted by Atomicman View Post
i got to ski a friends '08 183 Gotama yesterday (groomer day) back to back with my Supershape Speed.

All I can say is it was a very long awkward way to an edge. Also I was a bit baffled at how every liitle bump and imperfection in the snow surface seemd to be amplified through the ski compared to my SS speeds or Monsters which are much smoother, quiter and more energetic.

I could not imagine skiing on this ski on anything other then a POW day and would avoid the groomed like the plague. I had always heard how versatile this ski was and how well it skied the groomed and held an edge.

Bull!!!!!!

Now I am totally convinced that the skiers that sing the virutes of a 105mm waisted Pow ski to be good on groomed is just a ridiculous if i tried to convince them how good my Head i.SL Rd Race Stock slaloms are in 2 feet of POW!

With that said the Monster 88 kills the Gotama on groomed and comes somewhat close to skiing the Pow as well!
Ha-Ha..........
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post #178 of 198
4/9/08 at 7:13am
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Originally Posted by Captain_Strato View Post
In terms of skill, and who knows what about skis, I'll always defer to a racer.

I've never seen a rec skier, regardless of "Big Mountain" swagger, that can hold a candle to racers and former racers.

People who spend hours, days, year, honing their technique, one tiny aspect at a time, slay people who just go ski. There's a difference between training and skiing.

You can always spot a racer (or former racer) immediately. Their technique is fluid, flawless, quick, and beautiful.

I'll wager most 15-year-old girls on the Loveland ski team could stomp those who've proclaimed or insinuated their fat-ski prowess on this thread.

Just a point of perspective.
I raced for years and I know plenty of people that have never raced that impress me on skis.

Racing helps, but its not impossible to get good without it or something.
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post #179 of 198
4/9/08 at 7:27am
How is it possible that no one's tried a cheesy sex metaphor yet here (like, "skis are like women, it's more fun when you try all different shapes and sizes," etc.)?

Vis. sleds, tobags, saucers, check this out: http://www.madriverrocket.com/
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post #180 of 198
4/9/08 at 7:32am
that's cuz nobody likes fat chicks. Fat skis, on the other hand are freakin awesome.
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