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Screams are now christened... at Tignes on Saturday and Sunday just gone... Off piste was out of bounds so I was "confined" to blasting the Reds down the Grande Motte to Val Claret but that gave me a good feel for the skis on piste. I'll post a fuller review later but, in summary, I'm well pleased so far. They lock into the carve beautifully, whether vandalising the corduroy behind a piste-basher or running from hard-pack into soft stuff and then back into crud. They do need to be edged properly (e.g. will not suit a "lower" intermediate coming straight off carvers) but feel very light under foot and flick edge-to-edge very quickly. And they do need stiff boots - I did my first run with boots not fully tight (to let my feet warm up) and was all over the place... but... With everything set right the Screams are the most precise and predictable I think I've ever skiied on. And, yes David (;^), they do "chatter" a bit on the hard-pack but at least those dopey snowboarders who sit down out-of-sight below the ridges can hear me coming for once! Bring on the powder... please... |
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I'm looking at the Suunto S6 - so I can relive my skiing day when back in the office... ha ha.
Have to say I'm a little concerned that keeping track of my daily "vertical" might just encourage me to travel everywhere at silly speeds... |
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Suunto do a range of interesting looking watches described here. There are a couple of other manufacturers of such things but most seem more aimed at pilots than skiers. |
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May his soul rest - but why do people do this? I recall, about a decade ago, riding the chair back up the Black run on the Grande Motte and watching aghast as a skier below waved up at his mates... while he stood on a snow-bridge over a crevasse about 100m the wrong side of the danger markers and ropes at the piste edge. We skiied back down (on the piste!), with the intention of yelling at him, but saw no sign of him so continued on. As the chair back up took us over the crevasse again we saw, literally, a skier-shaped hole, as if made by a cookie-cutter, in the snow-bridge! A piste-basher was already on the scene and we watched a pisteur descend into the crevasse on a rope (attached to said piste-basher). On this occasion the guy was lucky... but what a complete idiot? Glaciers may make for reliable skiing but they are not good places to venture off-piste. |
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Although a little warm it looks likely to precipitate for most of the next week to ten days in the French Alps at least...
...and that has to be good news... !amazed |
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Some of the latest variants of these look feature-packed enough to satisfy the most gadget-obsessed amongst us.
For those unfamiliar, the more advanced models not only tell you your altitude but keep track of your cumulative vertical over the day. You can download your skiing day onto your PC, compare one day with another, analyse your vertical velocity relative to the space-time continuum (ok I made the last bit up...)... Anyone got one? Is it (still) fun? useful or just entertaining? |
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Yet another reason not to ski alone, even when close to the piste...
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It was X-Screams I just sold... and, yes, they were a little flappy at first but that disappeared as I got the hang of, I dunno, "driving" them with a little bit more toe pressure than I was used to? That would've been one big lady... B) ...great skis at speed over crud and in softer stuff though...
The Scream 10 I confidently expect to be stiffer, particularly in the tip, from the specs and reviews... I will let you know (if there's any snow left in Tignes by the weekend)... |
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