This Years Setup

[eskimobasecamp 0]

In the throws of buying and selling skis - thought i'd ask what everyone will be riding on this season.

 

Here is my plan -

 

Line Prophet 100 Ski - 172cm - 133-100-124

Salomon S912 Ti bindings

 

- main use: resort pow, trees and off piste skiing, easy access powder basically

(already own both)

 

 

Rossignol Scratch BC Girl Ski (07 model) - 171cm - 124-94-117

Fritschi Freeride bindings

 

- main use: for mid-winter and spring touring

(own the Freerides, and looking at $400 for the skis)

 

 

Movement Joystick park skis (06 model) - 166cm - 113-80-105

Bindings - looking for a good deal on ebay etc.

 

- main use: improvement in park/pipe

(not bought yet, looking at £200 for the skis)

 

 

This season i plan to mostly ride resort and off piste powder/terrain, perhaps some hikes off Happo and Tsugaike depending on mid-winter conditions... so for powder i got the LINE skis and want to mount with my S912 Ti's.

 

In the spring i want to tour as much as possible, therefore need the touring rig, opting for a slightly more forgiving ski that the Prophet, the Scratch BC is girl specific though i have not made a definite decision on this ski yet - but still want that 94 waist for March powder tours and hoping that i can ski on this in spring conditions too. Look like the ski has a decent enough sidecut to do so.

 

For non-powder days, i want a true park/pipe specific ski that is light - i wanna practise and get better at park this year. Yanaba AK?! I found the Movement Joystick for a good price in the UK and a friend will bring them over for me, so no shipping.

 

I want these 3 skis for very specific reasons and conditions, and think it won't be a waste since i actually live in a ski resort and getting countless days on snow, seeing completely different conditions all the time to suit all 3 skis/binding set ups.

 

Money wise - i want to invest in these skis now, as next season i'll probably be a ski bum/waitress in Canada and can't afford it then. I intend to chase the winter and head to South America after the Canada season, then after that move to Sweden, another country with plenty of snow. I won't have the money to buy all this kit again in the next 2 years so that's my reason to invest now. I also reckon i'll get full use out of them with a season in Jp, then Canada, then South America lined up so far... then hopefully a move to Sweden.

 

And anyway, AK has 4 snowboards sitting in his bedroom right now

[eskimobasecamp 0]

Links to my skis -

 

LINE Prophet 100 172cm

http://www.lineskis.co.uk/h/n/BUY/hardware/ALL/261//

 

Rossignol Scratch BC Girl 171cm

http://www.skipass.com/guide-matos/ski/2007/rossignol/Scratch-BC-Women.html

 

Movement Joystick 166cm

http://www.ski-review.com/content/view/152/30/

[damian 0]

Stay in the park mate, you're damaged goods in the steep stuff.

 

EskimoFacePlant crash footage!

[eskimobasecamp 0]

how long have you been waiting to put that up there? lol yes that was it, i only rag-dolled for about 5-10 seconds, not a full minute down a whole mountain like that dude- just off a little cliff band in nz.

 

but that baby is why i'll never ski the sock monkey line or even pretend that i'd vaguely entertain the idea. i'll be the chick holding the camera saying 'omg' whichever way your run goes

 

keep it on topic please, i wanna talk gear not lines

[damian 0]

I like that clip, although the American tv commentator style is grating.

 

Gear talk:

 

SNOWBOARD

- 178cm Dupraz snowboard for general off-piste, big mountains and powder surfing and also hard boot piste carving

- 165cm Dupraz snowboard for general off-piste, tighter and steeper big mountain powder surfing and also trees (he still hasn't made it, its on order)

- A 157cm Head ict freeride shape snowboard for steep difficult things or long climbs.

- Boot 1: Salomon Malamutes

- Boot 2: Scarpa Matrix AT boots - for piste carving (obviously also used for skiing)

- Binding 1: Burton C60 - my general purpose snowboard binding

- Binding 2: Pogo mountain plate bindings - used for piste hard boot carving and also for when I hike a snowboard line in AT boots (I only do this if the crampon 'mountaineering' is on very steep and hard ice.)

 

SKIING

- 172cm Dynastar 3800 Legends skis with Dynafit Comfort touring bindings. These are for some long multi day traverse tours and also my first step in getting good at off piste skiing. Its going to take a few years, but the sooner you take the first step...

 

I also recently bought a new 60m 8.5mm dry rope 'cause my 30m rope made my penis feel small and flaccid.

 

Besides longboards and some other specialised boards, so called freeride-freesytle snowboard don't lend themselves to interesting gear talk. There are so many brands with so many models that it all just a blur of mass-popularity sameness that differentiate itself with new graphics and stupid made up technical terms for otherwise very standard features of all boards. Snowboards are becoming Wallmart items marketed like fashion accessories and priced like skis.

[Ocean11 0]

 Quote:

Originally posted by le spud:
Stay in the park mate, you're damaged goods in the steep stuff.

EskimoFacePlant crash footage!

He chose a fairly good line to rag-doll down though (apart from the 'air' over that outcrop).

[SerreChe 2]

I call BS on the vid. Too stiff on the flips.

[bettyx 0]

are they paying you in gold bullion down at hakuba high?! i'm so envious of your grand plans.

 

i'd like to get a new little board. maybe a little dakine girls helipak.

 

but you girl, are going to kick some ass out there!

 

(&i'll be your cameragal anyday.)

[sock_monkey 0]

K2 Public Enemy '06 179cm (??-85-??) (bought new this summer)

Rossi Scratch bindings '06 (same as above)

 

-for resort regardless of conditions

 

K2 Seth Pistols '03 179cm (128-95-117) need to replace them cause they be old and sloppy.

Naxo NX21 touring bindings '06

 

-for touring anywhere, anytime.

 

StreetSki Freeride ~80cm (80mm wheels)

Marker 900 bindings

 

-for Tokyo.

 

Still need to buy touring boots and possibly replace my jacket. I did pickup a nice new Dakine backpack for light tour/resort days pretty cheap. Somewhere on the list is a light rope too.

[SerreChe 2]

Same as last year...

 

skis:

 

old 195s Soli XScream for on piste

Black Diamond Havocs 183s + Naxos for off

 

Snowbards:

 

Burton Canyon 167 + Burt SIs for on/off piste flexibility

Rad-aid Tanker OS 187 + soli bindings for sick pow days

[damian 0]

 Quote:

Originally posted by SerreChe:
I call BS on the vid. Too stiff on the flips.

That's because the tomahawk flips produce moments of inertia pulling in opposite directions. Those opposing g forces in his head and snowboard boots made an otherwise unconscious floppy body appear very stiff. If you could buy a good English pork sausage in Tokyo I'd suggest an experiment by throwing it (defrosted) across the room, like you throw a knife at a semi-naked women strapped to a board.

Excuse me if I used the wrong physics term.

bettyx - I heard that EBC is selling several pairs of her underpants to finance this season (I actually know of a Swiss girl who did that here in Düsseldorf to service the needs of the expatriate Japanese business men)

[eskimobasecamp 0]

Dude you can see what i'm selling over in the classified section!

[eskimobasecamp 0]

betty baby get an ALLIAN board

 

mmmm dakine heli pack sweeeeeet

[chop 0]

i maybe might buy a split, any leads, ideas?

[SerreChe 2]

Montoya is the man to go to for splits.

Voile may be one idea.

[SerreChe 2]

No way he is that stiff, looks like an absolute plank even at low speed at the bottom.

[bettyx 0]

damn those swiss are onto something!!

 

next stop? amos style!

[eskimobasecamp 0]

yes dudes i like it gear talk, gear talk

 

i'm trying to find out the weight for the 171cm rossi scratch bc girls ski i mentioned in my first post

 

if anyone knows or can easily find out, please let me know

[damian 0]

 Quote:

Originally posted by SerreChe:
No way he is that stiff, looks like an absolute plank even at low speed at the bottom.

What would you know. Frenchman.

[montoya 0]

here's this year quiver:

181 prior pow-stick swallowtail

173 egf swallowtail

172 winterstick tom burt

 

also have a couple of splits, 156 kyber and 172 pow-stick, that I'll probably use for +3 hour trips. chop you can find lots more info about splitboards here: http://talk.splitboard.com/talk/index.php

[damian 0]

Man! Not one but two ST's and the TB Winterstick. Really nice. Sounds like you've got it worked out. What's best is that they will see plenty of serious use. Damn. Very nice.

 

I guess you are snowshoeing the shorter hikes?

[eskimobasecamp 0]

montoya - sweet rides my mates in tokyo are really into winterstick boards

 

DISCLAIMER (so FT doesn't completely lose his mind when he reads my 1st post ) ....... i may not actually buy the Movement Joysticks, i may just ride the Public Enemies in the park this season, i repeat FT none of that is definite. ps - everyone else on here has 3 or 4 to play with, and YOU have how many ? ? ?

 

Finally got word about how much the Rossi Scratch BC chick skis weigh - the pair are roughly 1420g

[Kumapix 0]

rock/backup pow board: 166 burton frontier

pow board : 162 malolo

all-purpose, cruising, park, pow board: 163 nitro suprateam

 

bindings: burton cartels

backup bindings: old burton mission gt

 

boots: burton ions

[mattlucas 0]

Same gear as last year

Different location this time

I'm going to have to switch the Freerides to the Explosives soon

 

[Fattwins 0]

You can seriously find better deals considering your main needs.

 

you have a fine enough BC ski in the public enemy.

 

YOu want what else Boots, sleeping bag, a pack to get that stuff into. safty gear at least something. And you are going to drop 100000 on skis that you dont need? I just dont get it at all.

 

Me im on

fujatives

Jaks

Lbfs

and spats.

 

that might seem like alot but its a ski a year for me and thats enough. this season I wont buy any new skis Im looking for boots.