The Ski Lite / XCD thread

[Raventele]

[Johnny]

Kids playing in the snow!

[BillyFromTheHills]

^^^^Looks like the time I dug the UPS guy out of a ditch up near Priest Lake!

[Teleman]

usually we can make it up to hunting Camp because the owner snow blows it...His moniker is burnt toe tele....Slept in front of his his wood stove....woke up...headed out huntin......Couldn't keep his balance in his Elmer Fudd shoes.....looked at same shoes up on the hill....uh....bout most of the big toe and surrounding area had melted....by the stove....Knowin not....Not much further we got a place to park and pinned in to go up.....1000 feet of serious powder....glades.....steeps.....TM

[Raventele]

Fat end of XCD! Vectors and Excursions + 3pin/cables? if I recall..

[Johnny]

Wrong thread!
Way too fat and artificial! The XCD Police will get you!!!!!

[Teleman]

Telewheels on his Vectors and switchbacks and stinkin plastic.....I call it the old people's ski....get old and use stuff that gets you down....doesn't that have a chip to steer for you in it....I may be old and stupit....but not that stupit....will continue to run skinnies cause the best feel....other than...er...is skinny long arcs....double camber.....pins......leather....wagh! TM

[Raventele]

Wrong thread!
Way too fat and artificial! The XCD Police will get you!!!!!

Now LJ , I am sure you love " Back to the Future" ..Don't we all?
Our wooden heirlooms all approach 90 mm in the mids!
The wooden skis of years past are by today's standards, in fact, mid-fats if not fatties!
They were fatish, and actually also "artificial" in the sense of being works of art!
(They are a bit more cambered than a typical Alpine ski of today and some have NO metal edges!)
So ski those waxless "XCD" Vectors et al with pride, knowing it's really all just a matter
of revival! The Vectors will take us back to the roots!

[Teleman]

Well up on the wall at Teleking's [lace there resides a 12-14 foot set of skis.....quite skinny!!!!! Way back people made their own in all different sizes....Mt mothers old Northlands are as you describe but they were by that time manufactured.....(1930's ??????) TM

[Raventele]

Yea, I think ours date from the early 40's..
Not hard to find such skis around here..
Our favourite beer pubs hang them proudly
from the walls..
And , of course, so do many of the resorts..
Funny how shaped many of them are, considering the
common misbelief that ski shaping started 20 years ago!