The Importance (and Fun!) of a Quiver

raisingarizona said:
We get these wind events here where everything gets completely buffed and the snow is the most perfect, confidence boosting carvey cream. I actually like the wind buffed WAY more than the blower. It’s rare but it happens. I don’t remember ever skiing snow like that in the east.
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I'm sure I've had the conditions to cruise like that in the tree's, rather lack the balls to do so. The trees I've been in are pretty tight. I've played pinball so I know what can happen....lol
 
Ripitz said:
This gave me a brain jog to skis I had back in the day as well. I thought they were Dynastars but after some interweb sleuthing I see they were Rossignol Quantums. They were white with black plastic tips that had a window in them. Not sure what the Frenchies were thinking. Maybe, “Pourquoi pas?”.

So, it was sometime in the late eighties at Big K. It was New Year’s day so we were freshly hungover, maybe still drunk. OK, yeah, we were drunk. Definitely stoned. Hucked the cliffs on Devil’s Fiddle. OK, maybe just flopped off them. Coming in hot to a massive hit. Maybe it was the road that crosses or a whale, not sure, little foggy. Anyhow, I launched big time, threw a backscratcher and struck a pose. Looking good in my CB jacket. Dug those fucking tips right into the ground and smashed my face, busting open stitches I got the night before from a hockey slap shot. Good times.

Never found the tips. Skis were pretty useless without them.
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Awesome!!!!!
 
Campgottagopee said:
Same.
Back in the day I broke 3 pairs of Dynastar skis that had those red triangle thingE's in the shovel. Think they were foam filled, or something? Those red things would pop off like dandelion heads in the bumps. Funny now, not funny then.
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I broke a Dynastar gold/chicken heart SL 207 skiing icy bumps on National at Stowe. I managed to break the ski under my ski boot between the bindings. Both sidewalls cracked and the ski had a lot more camber. I did not really notice until I got to the flatter section. Nobody could ever explain what happened as it was the thickest part of the ski. Dynastar sent me a replacement pair of white chicken heart 207 SL, but they were never as good as the gold ones.
 
x10003q said:
I broke a Dynastar gold/chicken heart SL 207 skiing icy bumps on National at Stowe. I managed to break the ski under my ski boot between the bindings. Both sidewalls cracked and the ski had a lot more camber. I did not really notice until I got to the flatter section. Nobody could ever explain what happened as it was the thickest part of the ski. Dynastar sent me a replacement pair of white chicken heart 207 SL, but they were never as good as the gold ones.
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Lol
Same ski I broke
 
x10003q said:
I broke a Dynastar gold/chicken heart SL 207 skiing icy bumps on National at Stowe. I managed to break the ski under my ski boot between the bindings. Both sidewalls cracked and the ski had a lot more camber. I did not really notice until I got to the flatter section. Nobody could ever explain what happened as it was the thickest part of the ski. Dynastar sent me a replacement pair of white chicken heart 207 SL, but they were never as good as the gold ones.
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The original Dynastar Bigs (the red ones) were all foam core too. They skied amazingly for the time but they wouldn’t last very long if you were skiing them hard.

Those skis changed everything imo. Well, after Shane convinced most people that fatter skis were the future.

Ahh the mid to late 90’s, what an exciting time to be a ski bum. The sport was literally transforming after decades of stagnation.
 
I had the Dynastar Extreme Vertical Assaults for years. They must have been made of foam. I was big into mogul skiing at the time. The sports store I bought them from had a crazy return policy. When I brought them back with reverse camber and spider webbed topsheets they said skis aren’t supposed to look like that and gave me new ones. I kept going back and they didn’t care. Ended up with six pairs for the price of one. Those skis were truly ground breaking? and started a whole new category now called SkiMo.
 
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Breaking another pair. Hunter Mountain circa 1990.
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