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Ophir · December 10th, 2003, 17:40

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anyone know how much skii's rent for and what all we need to bring from home to be able to ski? do we have to purchase ski boots/coats etc?

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FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T SKIED RECENTLY

The changes in the ski industry with advances in equipment have been staggering in the past five years. If you own skis that have little to no sidecut and/or are long, leave em at home. Seriously, skiing is supposed to be hard and the new skis make it SO much easy mostly due to the length and the ease of turning due to sidecut. Where I used to race on 207-210cm for GS and 200-203cm for SL, I am consistantly on 170cm now. And I haven't slowed down! The new skis are amazing. The analogy I use with my clients is why drive a big ol boat like a Cadillac when you can be in a Porsche. Smaller means more agile and more versitile.

Additionally, if you rent or demo skis you will alway get well tuned skis that you can chose for the conditions (i.e. powder day=powder skis, drought=carving skis) and you won't have to lug them around.

Unfortunetly you have to own your own clothes.

December 10th, 2003, 17:40	#47
Ophir Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: was Ophir, CO, now in SLC! Posts: 1,477	Re: The ski trip is on! [ QUOTE ] anyone know how much skii's rent for and what all we need to bring from home to be able to ski? do we have to purchase ski boots/coats etc? [/ QUOTE ] FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T SKIED RECENTLY The changes in the ski industry with advances in equipment have been staggering in the past five years. If you own skis that have little to no sidecut and/or are long, leave em at home. Seriously, skiing is supposed to be hard and the new skis make it SO much easy mostly due to the length and the ease of turning due to sidecut. Where I used to race on 207-210cm for GS and 200-203cm for SL, I am consistantly on 170cm now. And I haven't slowed down! The new skis are amazing. The analogy I use with my clients is why drive a big ol boat like a Cadillac when you can be in a Porsche. Smaller means more agile and more versitile. Additionally, if you rent or demo skis you will alway get well tuned skis that you can chose for the conditions (i.e. powder day=powder skis, drought=carving skis) and you won't have to lug them around. Unfortunetly you have to own your own clothes.