J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by steverandomno

To be fair, my old C9's are sitting next to my desk now. This is probably far worse.

They look sad and lonely. They need a new owner.

Ian Wickham wrote:Stick them on your wall, I have a pair on the wall of my stairs then skiing is never out of mind or sight :thumbup:

Sacrilege! :)

bandit wrote:The repair bits, will also be useful for our other skis. I already had to use slow resin on my Black Roses as the top sheet was damaged (holed) by BA baggage handling (brand new and unused ski).

I LOVE my Stockli's and I'd like to keep them as rockhoppers. Stockli's keep their line like nothing else. They have a lot of history for me, and they remind me of good times past. Maybe I should hang them on the wall :D

How did they manage to do that? Not a good start to your season!

Don't put them on the wall. I always think it is a profound disrespect to skis to put them on the wall. Every time I see ski's on the wall of a ski bar, I imagine they are silently weeping in remembrance of their former glory days. I prefer the old tradition of offering burning skis to Ullr.

http://www.skircr.com/matts-blog/?tag=/ullr

It is an honourable farewell to old skis.

With modern, non-wooden skis, ebay is probably better.

Surely it is cheaper to get a second hand pair on ebay? Is it just a sentimental thing? I used to love my C9's until I realized how badly they were suited to my skiing. Last season I picked up a good pair of wide twin tips with rental bindings for about 100 quid from a gear exchange shop in Canada. I bet you'd end up paying more to repair a de-lamination than this.

Arrrggg - stop it now!

It's far too early to start obsessing about webcams. I get little enough work done as it is.

:-)

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bandit wrote:McDonalds in Chamonix, Megeve and Zermatt ) Interesting choice of venues, given the typical clientele and prices normally associated with those resorts.

I've eaten in McD's in Zermat because we fancied at least one night where we didn't have to book an appointment with our bank manager before eating. It was still about 35 quid for two meals!

In the end we found the best place for good value was Sparky's at the Matterhorn Hostel. Nice staff too.

Skiing in Hokkaido is fantastic. We had a great time in Niseko, a resort very close to Rusutsu, a couple of years ago. Mellow terain, small vertical and low altitude, but 10-20 cms fresh powder almost every day. The low altitude means that the trees are larger, (aspen/poplar I think) and so are more widely spaced, which is great fun to ski through.

The area including Rusutsu and Niseko gets an amazing 15m of snow in an average year.

My top tip for skiing in Japan: Leave your own skis at home. The Japanese airlines have crazy charges for ski cartridge and you will want to hire much fatter powder skis than your typical 'all mountain' ski anyway.

This photo brings back fond memories of skiing in Japan:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eriksjon/4323500744/