How Many Skis Have You Bought This Season?

[kidwoo]

everything ever made

You bought all that this year?


I'm all about compensating lack of skill with technology but that's nuts.

[StuntCok]

I am a gear whore

189 Pontoons
181 AR6
188 Bros

Looking to buy ARGs but can't find any left in Japan

Selling Scratch BCs

Still holding
190 Gotamas
188 Stoeckli Snake BC
178 Line Mike Nick
Line Prophet 130
Delamed AR5s (for water ramps)

[YooperSteeze]

186 Big Trouble w/ P18 frees
165 Elan SLX Fusion Pro

Neither of which have shown up yet.

[dookeyXXX]

"I'm all about compensating lack of skill with technology but that's nuts."

Yup, I hear that. But I'm also compensating for lack of new equipment in over 15 years.

Up until 2 seasons ago I was on 198 piss yellow Rossi 7S's. Then my ancient San Marco boots split in half in the Boulder parking lot @ Heavenly. Since nobody would rent me boots to go with my indemnified 747 bindings, I was forced to finally try new skis. Haven't looked back since.

Last season I ponied up on:
180 AK No Ka Oi
176 Armada AR5
175 Blizzard Titan 8
177 Karma
177 Mantra

Looking to unload the AR5's this season

So far this season:
186 Spats (will mount with the Sally 912's from my AR5's)

Looking to also grab:
175 M:EX
181 Titan 9
185 Sick Bird
also go my eyes on the Bros...prolly a 179 soft, but might have to try a 188 just to see if I'm "man" enough.

^^^^Mikey!
How you like those 185 Scratches (noticed that you're also on a 174 Seth, so you've skied short and longish).

[tromano]

Made a few changes!

Bought:

-170cm SX10 w/ atomic bindings (everyday east skis)
-188cm Nordica Beasts (PX12) (everyday west skis)
-174 cm Apache Chief
-Technica Diable Magma (26.5)

Sold:
-Volkl T50 5*
-174cm Apache Chief

Moving to UT in May and I am going to need to buy a fatter ski before next season.

[Tahoepa]

183 Gotama with Rotefella Cobras
185 Supercharger Blower with Solly 914

sold Rossi XXX 185 with axial 140's

Now we just need some snow.

[SkiN00d]

You bought all that this year?


I'm all about compensating lack of skill with technology but that's nuts.

You mean the recommended gear thread isn't a mandatory shopping list??? Shit.

Until I'm done paying my ex-wife over 4k/month (10 months and counting baby!), I won't have the chance to go to New Zealand or Chile to ski the summer away so I compensated by dropping a few hundred dollars on cheap used skis during the off season. Sure it's a little obsessive, but it beats some of the alternatives by a country mile. I did splurge a bit on the spats and kingswoods, but I also kicked ass at work and got a great bonus.

Then there's the social aspect of trying out skis that have made the "list" here. When a ski gets a lot of love from a group of people as serious and diverse as the maggots then I think it's worth a try, both as a potentially fun addition to my favorite pastime as well as getting an understanding of what characteristics define greatness in our sport. Skis like the Explosiv are an almost universal benchmark here. If you have a chance to pick some up for relatively cheap then it's hard to say no. It's the same for the G4 and G41, and the same for the Spats. If you haven't at least tried them out, then you're missing out on a significant part of TGR's cultural context.

The other part of the cultural context here, of course, are the people and places they love so when the $$$ is a bit more available I'll come and sample some of your favorite mountains too and hopefully we can sample a few beers afterwards. Until then it's my little local hill and my scavenged and rehabilitated skis from e-bay and craigslist and a lot of amazing TGR trip reports to fuel the stoke.

[Pow4Brains]

Bros, spats and HELIDOGS.

[MOHSHSIHd]

zero, zip, zilch


I think not having a job might have something to do with it....

[Flexon Phil]

A few here and there.

[eirikainersharp]

Line Elizibeth's
Sannuk's
Naxo's (Upgraded a warranty from the 1's to the 21')
s916's
s920's

[kidwoo]

You mean the recommended gear thread isn't a mandatory shopping list??? Shit.

Haha......rad.

I'm just jealous you're ahead of me.

Now sell me that shit in your avatar.

[doublediamond223]

Nordica Dobermann GSR and SLR, 186 and 165 respectively with marker wc plate and 18.0s [ducks].

Desperately trying to resist buying pow boards I can't afford.

[summit]

06 PEs to replace my 03 PEs (now rock skis)
07 Havocs to be a light touring ski
ARG and/or Praxis to supplement and/or replace my Spats

last year: none

i need new alpine boots and something for my dynafit whether that figures into making my AT boots workable again...

[gamma]

191 ANT

eyeing a pair of lotus 138...

[cj001f]

-2........

[StormDay]

This year:
174 Stockli Stormrider XL w/ Tyrolia FF17+
191 Mantra w/ Mojo 15s purchased end of last season for this season.
Sanouks Used Blue Buddha top sheet - unmounted probably Mojo 15 maybe RailFlex LD12


Last year:
194 LPs
195 XXX (new in wrapper)
184 Mantra


Mrs: Thinking about a pair of Aura's. Pickup AC4 last year.

[mountain_man]

Sanouks Used Blue Buddha top sheet - unmounted probably Mojo 15 maybe RailFlex LD12

Go the Mojo 15's
that is a noce quiv.

[Rasputin]

Helidogs and freerides for AT, as well as all the other necessary gear for BC.

[majortom]

Dynastar Intuitiv Big Pro Riders and 912s to go on them.

Not all that impressive compared with some people's list!

[dk_alaskan]

173cm Volant Power Karve - bought at end of last season due to breaking my Neox bindings on my M:11s which I then sold with the warranty bindings
178cm Noridica Speedmachine 14s - groomed ice ski
181cm Elan HCX (had to try a parabolic shape)
175cm Elan M02 (but already traded for...)
188cm Volkl G41
188cm Volkl G4 irresistable bargain skis
180cm Volkl Explosiv (dayglo model) My new favorite!
190cm Volkl Explosiv (dayglo model)
201cm Stockli Stormrider DP - definitely too much for me, but I have to try them
185cm Kingswood Fats extra flex - just received, getting mounted now
186cm Volant Spatulas NIP from ebay, getting mounted now
195cm Salomon AK Rocket Swallowtails from SAC
183cm Olin Outer Limits (pretty much redundant with the 180cm Exploders)
186cm Monster Im85 - HATED 'EM! - will be gone soon
190cm K2 Jerry Launchers - CL bargain
165cm Atomic PowPlus NIP from ebay - bought for wife but she doesn't want them so I mounted them for me to try out

I'm trying to stop there for now, but seriously want Lotus 138s. We'll see...

Skinood, let me know how those stormriders treat you, interested in that size, but no one demo's them that long

[hemas]

Sold a few (short Karhu Jaks and brand new Hagan Valdez Freeride's) and then bought a few used skis...

- Blue Buddha Sanouks for tele
- 190 Maroon Buddha Explosives for AT (Freerides waiting)
- 176 Elan M662's with Voile 3-pin cables (or HW's) for messing around the park/bumps and spring touring...

[leroy jenkins]

I ahvn't bought anything yet, but I really want the foll0woing,

My ideal list:

Deep day ski: lotus 138s

Gunning skis: 194 and 189 B squads, and the 205 superfat ak rockets

Touring somethings, maybe one super lifht pair with dynafits, another littl burlier pair with naxos for sidecountry, i don't really know, and some burly at boots.


In all actuality, I will probably just get something like 4frnt ehp 193s to fill the first two categories, and worryu abotu at setpu later.

[ulty_guy]

i plead the 5th...
"...nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,"

[Jumper Bones]

So far this year I've bought 193 Volkl Sanouks, 189 K2 Pontoons, and 3 pairs of S916s/977s, and one pair of S900 Carbons. I've also sold, through this board, a pair of 195 Iggy FGSes, a pair of 190 Iggy FFLs, a pair of 189 K2 Kahunas, and now again that same pair of S900 Carbons.

Last season I bought 2 pair of those Iggy FGSes (have since kept 1 and sold 1), 188 K2 AK Enemies, the Kahunas, and an extra pair of Solly XWave 10s. Oh and an extra tranceiver too, BCA Tracker.

Gear Swap's been good to me.