Your All-Time Favorite Ski?

[MaineSkiLady]

In an attempt to distract myself from the dismal northern New England weather (it's raining again :( ), I thought I would start this thread. A trip down Memory Lane for some of us. So what was/is your all-time favorite?

Was it your first-ever ski? (sentimental value)
Your current ski?
A race ski?
A ski with some other sentimental attachment that you may or may not still own?

Just thought it would be fun to hear some diva stories.

Mine were a pair of 190 Rossignol Stratos, circa 1978. I'd been skiing for 3 years. At this, the start of my 4th season, I moved up to the "Big Leagues." (FWIWW, at the time) They were silver with a red and blue stripe down the center and the famous Rossi rooster at the tip. They were my breakthrough ski, and did they ever REBOUND ! These were the skis that showed me how it's done.

The bindings just pre-dated ski brakes, so they had straps In the early brake days, brakes were actually an add-on, not integral to the bindings.

They somehow sustained a topskin core shot (??? how???) at one tip after a couple of years. DH did his epoxy-best, but they weren't pretty anymore. I eventually sold them at a large regional ski swap for next to nothing due to the largely cosmetic blemish. I wish I still had them, if only for sentimental reasons.

 

[Pequenita]

My 175 Rossi STS - they were the first ski that I owned post 1990 ski crash. Of course, by the time I owned these skis, the shaped ski revolution was coming on strong, and I didn't ski these much. I still have them and am trying to figure out how to make them into a coat rack or otherwise use them as a decorative/functional piece in my apartment.

 

[SnowHot]

Oooooh, this is a good one, Wish I'd thought of it.

Was it your first-ever ski? (sentimental value)

The one with the most sentimental value is my Great Great Uncle Gunner's ski which my dad gave to me for Christmas last year.

Your current ski?

Blizzard Titan Eos. Since my little sister absconded with my Wave Spice, I find myself pulling my Eos out before anything else.

A race ski?

Blizzard Magnesium SL This is one of the fastest, most manueverable little skis I've ever experienced.

A ski with some other sentimental attachment that you may or may not still own?

The Ski, also pictured in the picture above. It is the first boutique ski I purchased, and though its not a ski I will ski on everyday, it has a special place in my quiver.

 

[w.ski]

My Head 360s with Look Nevada step in bindings. I got them for my 15th birthday. Best birthday present ever.

 

[Lilgeorg]

I loved my Dynastar x8's. They were the first ski I insisted on buying for myself because I liked what I read about them in Ski Magazine. After I bought a pair, nearly everyone in the family bought a pair. We still have 2 pair --now a headboard for a bed in our loft.

 

[Jilly]

First ever ski - they were red with bear trap bindings and steel screw on edges. Might have been tyrol
Current ski - 154 Z5's on their 3rd year and just about had it.
Race ski - don't
Sentimental ski - Head racing SR from 1982 - got my level 2 CSIA on those. They may have said racing, but the SR was for soft racing.

 

[lil mountain girl]

Oooooh, this is a good one, Wish I'd thought of it.

The one with the most sentimental value is my Great Great Uncle Gunner's ski which my dad gave to me for Christmas last year.

Blizzard Titan Eos. Since my little sister absconded with my Wave Spice, I find myself pulling my Eos out before anything else.

Blizzard Magnesium SL This is one of the fastest, most manueverable little skis I've ever experienced.


The Ski, also pictured in the picture above. It is the first boutique ski I purchased, and though its not a ski I will ski on everyday, it has a special place in my quiver.

wow, snowhot!

your great great uncle Gunner must've rocked with those beauties !!!

i guess skiing runs in the family!!!

those skis remind me of the ski movie "Sinners" in which the narrator, a 100 yr. old Dr. AJ Snow describes first falling in love with the sport of skiing :D !

simply beautiful!

 

[SnowHot]

Lil mountain girl, I had a thread on epic to figure out the TR of those skis, and it was something astronomical like 70M.

One of the old timers on Epic Remembered skiing on something like that and said, You can't turn those, you stopped when you broke them running into trees.

Funny, Uncle Gunner Skied, then my grandma and uncle Dewey, After that, no one until me and my influence to get everyone jived.
I love this stuff!

 

[MaineSkiLady]

I loved my Dynastar x8's. They were the first ski I insisted on buying for myself because I liked what I read about them in Ski Magazine. After I bought a pair, nearly everyone in the family bought a pair. We still have 2 pair --now a headboard for a bed in our loft.

What a GREAT idea for decorative use!! Love it! I'm trying to amass enough for a bench, but I think I like the headboard idea even better ! Hmmmm, there's a king bed in a guest room here that's unadorned.........wonder how many I'd need....

 

[ski diva]

My Head 360s with Look Nevada step in bindings. I got them for my 15th birthday. Best birthday present ever.

Omigod, I remember those skis. My sister had a pair and I was SOOO jealous. Pretty cool you still have them.

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Omigod, I remember those skis. My sister had a pair and I was SOOO jealous. Pretty cool you still have them.

And the Look Nevada bindings!---in the picture, they look totally new and perfect, wow! There is such a fan club of those bindings - I still hear people wax poetic about their Look Nevadas, as nothing could touch them at the time for fail-safe - probably a bigger fan club than those of the old Raichle Flexon Comps. We have an old pair of Elans in the garage with same bindings. DH cannot bear to part with them. First skis he ever took to CO. Probably would make his all-time favorite list, along with his Flexon Comps!

 

[Lilgeorg]

Maine Ski Lady, I am still not good at posting photos, but I had posted photos of the headboards on another thread. I'll try again here. https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=12573&l=5ba4a&id=662917212

 

[w.ski]

Omigod, I remember those skis. My sister had a pair and I was SOOO jealous. Pretty cool you still have them.

Every now and then I look at them and wonder what it would be like to ski them again....I sure would rock retro day!

 

[Pequenita]

Maine Ski Lady, I am still not good at posting photos, but I had posted photos of the headboards on another thread. I'll try again here. https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=12573&l=5ba4a&id=662917212

OH! The coat rack ski is what I want to do! How long are the coat rack skis? How are the skis attached to the wall (the hook part, I've figured out)?

 

[num]

Lil, that headboard looks great! You and husband made it?

 

[Lilgeorg]

Tricia, thanks for the help on the photos. I keep trying to get it right.

Yes, my hubby and I made the headboard. It was really easy. We just joined everything with metal screws.

The coat rack was made from 185cm skis. I just drilled with a regular drill and screwed the hooks on. We attached to the wall with drywall screws. Both projects took under an hour to make.

 

[Jilly]

Well we have a shooter ski and a ski bench. The shooter ski is at the condo, so I can't get a pic. The bench is turned upside down outside so again no pics.
The shooter ski is easy. Drill holes to match the size of your shooter glasses. It's interesting trying to move it in a small space.
The bench was patterned after a garden bench that DH has made many times. He cut the ends off the skis so the bench wasn't too long, tips up. Gets a lot of looks when people see it and then there are stories - I remember those......

 

[sibhusky]

Actually my favorite ski of all time is my ski for the past two seasons and boy I miss them, the K2 Apache Recon. Seems to handle everything well except really deep powder. I've been back on my old XP's (the Recon's father) and I really wish I hadn't lost my Recons to my accident. I keep bidding on them on Ebay, but can't afford the price so far.