Feeling antsy? Ready for snow? It's the only way I can survive Houston summers. Going to an ice skating rink helps, too!!! Good thing is that the same skill needed to carve skates can be transferred to carving skis and visa versa. I went to a skate rink a couple years ago and thought my rental skat...

That's an easy one. In Alaska it's the Chugach, Kenai, and Talkeetna mountains. Back East it's the Pocono Mts, not much snow but it's where I can go right out my door. For road trips back there it would be the Whites, Greens, and the High Peaks of the Adirondacks.

I guess I'm not a perfectionist Stephen,I bought some poles at a second hand store a few years ago and used them a few times before I realized one was 5cm longer than the other.

Hi Stephen, welcome to the forum. I wouldn't let 5 cm stop you from getting the adjustable poles. I think that since you will be on slightly heavier boots and skis and you being a lot older and hoping for a lot of powder will be fine with slightly shorter poles.

That does look like Nordic rocker for sure and it would be neat if they were made like that, but it could have developed from use. I had a pair of Karhu XCD-GTs from the mid eighties that developed it. I took them to the shop in the late nineties and when the tech squeezed the bases together the tip...

Never say never Kid, I felt the same way until I got some thermomouldable T4s. If I want to go fast and far I have xc skis for that, and they turn too.

That's a nice one Jack, I haven't seen a good comet since Hale Bop in 97'

Thanks for that explanation TM. I agree that the stiff camber can create more energy coming out of a turn. This is a good thing because extreme unweighting leads to extreme weighting and that is what you need to get dbl camber skis to turn. That being said I have had skinny alpine skis that gave a s...

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If you can control that energy you can do things on those skis that NO APLINE ski can do....TM

TM I don't want to start anything but a discussion, could you please name some?

I was always able to get enough ankle support to pressure my ski tips with lace up Merrils and Asolos. The slop in the system with leather boots comes from the boot binding connection and the rubber boot sole to leather upper connection IME.