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Originally Posted by Fastskiguy
With this cold weather that familiar feeling is really hitting hard this year. We've been here almost 3 years now but for some reason it's more intense this year.
I've haven't made it to Tuckerman Ravine yet but I did make a feeble jump into corbett's in the era of 205cm slalom skis and survived. Went heli skiing once in BC. That was kinda funny, right when the first shorter wide powder skis came out. The guides were like "you really want to use the Chubbs vs. your GS skis" and I was like "they're only 180cm long, how can they possibly work at all??" but they really, really did and, like your heli days I'm sure, it turned out to be a day I'll never forget.
Joe
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LOL, most of my adventures were using Atomic or Rossignol 205cm slalom boards, which were a major upgrade from my first set of equipment, wooden Hart skies with screw in edges, safety straps, and lace up ski boots. During my younger years, got a new set of boards on sale at the end of each ski season for next years powder days and proceeded to totally destroy last years skies as my rock boards in the early/late season. Only got to use the new modern technology for the last few years of the ski career before the knees went totally bad. Unfortunately, had to cross off Heli skiing in the B.C. Bugaboos from the bucket list and replace it with some scuba diving adventures.