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I have the Rustler 10 I ski as my main pair. Such a fun ski! Absolutely love it.

I also have Bent Chetler 120s that I also love skiing on in any non-ideal conditions like heavy spring snow etc. they rip through the cruddy snow and I feel like a hero in them lol.

Wanting to downsize to a 1-ski quiver.

I was thinking of the Bent 110s, but then I got thinking - does the Rustler 11 ski like the 10 but just…wider?

Anyway lmk if anyone has experience in this area.

On 🐧Penguin Ridge looking at🐤 Bird ridge. On a🐦Bluebird day in south-central AK.

Hey guys, I am looking to sell some of my snow credits to Mount Hotham as I'm not planning to go this year.

If you're interested in buying, could you please get in touch. The credits are worth 530 AUD. Open to selling them at a discounted price.

I just saw a good deal on Volki kendos and pulled the trigger. I've needed new skis for a while and this deal was probably too good to pass up (hopefully). However, I have no clue what a good binding is. I'm at the verge of moderate to advanced ski level and usually stick to blues, blacks and tree runs. Also I spend most of my ski time on the east coast in vermont or new Hampshire but go out west occasionally.

Any recommendations are appreciated!

I'm 175lb and 1.78, thinking about getting enforcer 94s at 172. These would be my skis for everything.

I've found I have more fun with short skis so I'm leaning towards getting stuff in the 172-175 range. But I'm concerned that maybe I'm doing something wrong which is leading me to not take advantage of lengthier skis and I don't want to lock myself in to suboptimal skis (I don't have money to buy several).

I call myself advanced when renting skiis but really see myself as intermediate level, can get down anything but feel like I only recently realized how to carve and my powder technique could definitely be better. I like everything (moguls, piste, offpiste, park). Plan to do ~15 days next season, one week in alps one in the west.

So coming back I guess another way to put my question is what would the downside be of buying a shorter ski?

PS On the side, I keep hearing praise for the enforcers that is caveated with something like "you need to have speed to have fun". Might these skis not be a good pick?

There's a new working class ski club in Vancouver, BC.  Sidecountry Ski Club  is for the people, and promises to be a blast.  This is all FREE, so hopefully the admins will bless this posting.  We are planning for the 2024/2025 season right now!

Check it out.

https://www.instagram.com/ski_sydcntry/

Join the club!

app.teamlinkt.com/register/go/sidecountryskiclub/62405

I never thought looking through a skiing subreddit would make me so sad. I see people skiing down in massive mountains, some nice powder while here, you think it’s good conditions when less than a quarter of the slope is dirt. Like “oooh I’m gonna go skiing at a big mountain today!” and it’s only like 700 meters tall. Anyways, for those who still have snow in the west, have good ski!

Edit: You guys made me realize how incredibly lucky I am, even though it’s not the Rockies, I’m still very lucky to even have ski in my area. I really feel like a selfish bastard now… Thanks a lot to everyone for making me realize how stupid I was by not appreciating what I have.

I just was accepted to present at a conference (with my boss and some non-skiing colleagues) in Denver in mid December. Given my responsibilities I’m only going to have the option to ski one day, a Sunday before the meetings start. I’m not allowed by my contract to extend conferences into vacations, so I’m looking at the weekend prior.

What’s my game plan? Arriving Saturday, must be back to my people on Sunday evening. Where should I plan to go? How I should I get there? Probably will rent equipment b/c there’s already a lot of stuff associated with this trip.

Things to note: ice coast skier who hasn’t been out west since the ‘90s 😳; given my age and my currently fractured tibial plateau (Gore Mtn skiing 4/7) and the odds that it would be my first day of the season I’m probably sticking to blue groomers.

Also—the first thing my co-presenter said to me was “you are NOT going skiing before we present”

(But I am…b/c that’s when I can…)

Thanks!!

I overheard someone say they were surprised so many lifts were running on a weekday. This confused me since as far as I'm aware my local resort runs lifts depending on conditions not based on how busy the resort is. Is this different at other resorts?

Climbed up this huge mountain

Donner tunnels California

Has anyone else ever thought that Nuclear Winter would produce amazing ski conditions... if anyone was left alive and capable of skiing it? Made some AI art on the theme...

https://preview.redd.it/l283o3z7mg0d1.png?width=2048&format=png&auto=webp&s=25ffd4e66f44b7b1817ef00759e31528c598f6d5

Experiece the Chiill!

I thought you would enjoy seeing the 90s chairlift in Japan.

Can’t remember where, maybe Hakuba (lived there for a few years so went quite a few places). Note, it is a single, no real back, safety bar, or foot rest. It was like sitting on a puma lift.

I skied 26 days this season on the Epic Local Pass. I bought the pass for $671, so it worked out to $25.80 per day. I never paid for parking. I brought my own breakfast, lunch, and drinks. My only costs were the pass and the gas. (Plus the gear, of course, which I already own)

I’ve seen stories of single-mountain season passes being $1,500+ before the mega pass era. And we all know that daily lift tickets are astronomically priced because the new business model is to make everyone buy a pass. That works out great for me, though. This is my first season with a pass, and my previous high of days-per-year was 4. So I skied 22 more times for about the same price as the 4 lift tickets I bought last year.

I’m not making any claims about the mega passes being great for families, or about the barrier to entry for casual skiers who want to go twice per year. I’m simply saying that for me the pass is absolutely the best thing I bought in the last year.