Something to get my mind off our dismal snow pack and warm weather.
Timberline has superb corn snow. It carves like butter, gets sloppy late morning to early afternoon, then it’s time to head for home, because you’ve made so many runs yer thighs are on fire.MarkBC said:A friend of mine who lives in Portland tele skis at Timberline, including most of the summer on that that year-round snow field.
He skins up.
The days of 215 cm Epoke (Slopoke) skis and Asolo boots with the soles cracked behind the pin holes. One linked turn was considered excellent skiing.pvstoy said:In my younger days that was me. Run mogals, jump off crest, race alpine skiers because they said to get off the mountain. This was their mountain and we did not belong here.
Fun times riding to top of Mammoth Mountain and jumping off the cornice.
All with leather boots and skinny three pin skies. Boy I wished I had the technology today back then.
Thanks for sharing, brought back memories!
pvstoy said:In my younger days that was me. Run mogals, jump off crest, race alpine skiers because they said to get off the mountain. This was their mountain and we did not belong here.
Fun times riding to top of Mammoth Mountain and jumping off the cornice.
All with leather boots and skinny three pin skies. Boy I wished I had the technology today back then.
Thanks for sharing, brought back memories!
I don’t know about your experience, but I hated the Touring Crowns. There was so much secondary camber, you needed extra weight to get all the edge down on a hard packski3pin said:Yup, we've skied off the summit of Pyramid Peak riding the cow on fischer touring crowns. Then came the red Chouinard Valmonte and things began to change.
They were absolutely awful for turning. It took sheer willpower and the willingness to stomp that camber out of them. To achieve a turn was a miracle. It also took perfect snow. The touring crown was what we had. People spoke in hushed terms about the Phoenix ski at that time. But then came Chouinard, Tua skis, Scarpa T2's, and Paul Parker's book.Wandering Sagebrush said:I don’t know about your experience, but I hated the Touring Crowns. There was so much secondary camber, you needed extra weight to get all the edge down on a hard pack