[Closed] The STW Ski & Snowboard thread. The 2016-2017 season

Cheers TheDTs. Taken on an RX100 MK I if anyone's interested.

Was generally pretty good conditions though weirdly warm so could get quite soft/slushy in places especially later on. Our guide was a genius at seeking out nice snow to ski though.

Grum, this makes me want to go skiing NOW!

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Love it.

Cheers! Yeah not many better feelings for me in life (if any) than being about to drop into some lovely fresh powder on a lovely day in beautiful mountains.

Speaking of nice photos, I stumbled onto the Red bull Illume site the other day. Some great skiing shots on there as usual.
One of my favourites.
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just to wind up CFH..

First trip of 2018 BOOKED!

Annual lads trip (for which I am an honorary lad) has grown to 12 of us for next year - it's going to be carnage.

Off to Samoëns in early March - not been before and very much looking forward to it.

some snaps

By your standards maybe

Nice work wallop, always good for have something in the bag 🙂

my final shred of the year was last week, was great but I am very keen on summer now. Can't wait to get out on the roller skis . Flashy I'm looking forward to the 2017-18 thread, when are you starting it? June?

^^ a mate of mine trained for that nutty Scandi XC marathon with those on the seafront at Eastbourne

June?

🙂 no complaints from me

St Anton are building a bike park ...

How did I miss that photo of ripping the cloth of the king! Epic.

Next year's thread? Soon, my children, soon..... 🙂

I'm Looking at taking Junior away next year, she's 12, a competent skier. As she's already going skiing with her mum at Feb 1/2 term (natch!) I'm looking at going either the 1st week of Jan, or 1st week of April / Easter hols.
What's people recommendations for reliable snow? I'd prefer to go away January but the last few years have been awful early season (generally).

Cheers,

You'll get reliable snow in Canada first week of January 😀 You'll also have a strong possibility of -25C which might take some of the fun out of it. 😯

You can't start a new thread yet, junior is skiing through June in Val/Les deux Alpes and there's the Summer stuff for the really keen. Next season is when the grass gets covered again.

new ski boot arrived in post today, bring it on! 😉

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That wakeboard is the wrong way round! 😉

Good to see Boa making its way in to water bindings, though. I remember the first time I tried a Boa wakeboard boot - A revelation!

TheKingisdead, Easter is a bit earlier than this year, next season, would be a good bet for good conditions at any of the big European resorts, stay as high as you can make sure there is snow making on the slopes to resort. Much cheaper than Feb half term.
Looking at early booking discount for Easter at Kalinda, Tignes.

This is great, in Swedish but you'll get it as she uses loads of English. Basically all about how snowboards and skis for women all have flowers on them and words like passion etc , when the men's have skulls and stomper and missile

Still skiing here in Whistler, thought just for today and tomorrow before they move over to sightseeing. Bike park is open now though, so a couple of split DH/SKI days on the cards 😀

Well, skiing finally ended for me last monday. Glorious sunshine and warm weather for the first time since last summer.

Time to put the snow gear away for winter

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Put that ironing board away as well.

Mrs NBT needs new skis. She used some cheap Blizzard rental skis in Italy and liked them. The Élan rentals she got in Méribel weren't as well received, so we swapped them for some Fischer Koa 77 XTR. She liked those much more.

I can get Fischer? Koa80 for about £230, or Koa84 for about £270.

Worth going for? I see Mme Edukator liked hers. Is there anything else worth looking at? We're looking to spend two weeks in Whistler next season, but Mrs NBT will be skiing pistes and dabbling in the trees rather than dropping cliffs and straight-lining gullies

Howsyourdad - Jones MtnTwin & TwinSister in this house. No flowers. No skulls. Mainly mountains and a large Jones logo. Boards for grown ups?

Personally I`d find 80 or 84 a bit narrow for Whistler but it depends how much you want to buy skis for one trip vs multiple years. Dabbling in trees is a ton of fun but better when you aren't sinking....

It depends on how heavy Mrs nbt is. Madame is 55kg and the KOA 84s give her as much float as 150s would some contributors to this thread. I'm 67kg and she sinks less than when I'm on 179/90 K2 Iron Maiden double spat' park 'n'pipe skis.

Thanks chaps. Mrs NBT is around 57kg and these skis will need to last for a few seasons, most of which wil probably be in europe as we haven;t got the funds to go trans-continental every year.

If anything, she's a little off-put by the perceived increase in the underfoot width, as she's worried about 84 underfoot being harder to turn on piste than the 77s

TwinSister in this house. No flowers. No skulls.

the pink and purple one which according to Jones website is for "dancing down the mountain" ?

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Oh dear. Point accepted.

Couple of years old so mine is green and the "ladies" one is a very dark purple colour with very little pink on top. Ok it is a little lighter purple underneath - but I like to think goth purple, not girly.

But still mountains not flowers.

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yeah that's pretty rad actually!

Cheers for the vid, hyd. I mainly enjoyed just listening to her voice!

Mine are fairly gender neutral. You might put "zephyr" at the "girly" end of the spectrum, but snowflakes are snowflakes. "D1" is masculine if anything, but in an autistic spectrum numbers and letters like a motorbike kind of way, rather than Crusher or Stomper. Quite a Romantic mountains, rivers and waves image on the D1, though.

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^^^ Very Nice Dupraz indeed nedrapier! McNab was riding one of them when we were doing laps off the GM top tickets (one of the few powder stashes available at the time).

I was quite surprised by how thick the board was!

It is, Digby! I recommend taking one for a razz at some opint. Zero G usually have a couple to demo.

Neil's big chap, so I wouldn't be surprised if he was on the 6'++ double stiff version - probably gets the stiffness from thickness. I've already got a big stiff powder board, so I went for the smaller 5'5"+ Love it. Does everything: slashy, poppy, floaty, cruisy, carves really well. Probably not great in the park and pipe, but neither am I!

@whatnobeer quite an armoury 🙂

Zero days for me this season and not a single day in the Alps last summer either. Depressing 🙁

Aye ... it was the Red Dupraz 6'++ he was riding - but he did borrow another one from Zero G as well. Can't remember exactly which one it was.

I shall have to try and demo one myself next season! 🙂

You shall! I'd be interested to hear how you get on. I had my eyes on the 6', but they only had it in +, which was just a bit unwieldy for me.

Personally I`d find 80 or 84 a bit narrow for Whistler but it depends how much you want to buy skis for one trip vs multiple years. Dabbling in trees is a ton of fun but better when you aren't sinking....

I've ridden some of the bowls and trees on my park skis which are 86 and fully cambered. They're not the best. I'd want something 92+ honestly for out here, but if you're a good skier you'll manage fine regardless. Also helps if they're not park skis with all the structural rigidity of the a wet noodle.

whatnobeer quite an armoury

Junior got permission to use some historic footage from INA in one of his music vids. You might not like the music but I'm sure you'll be fascinated by the skiing:

So ... the nights are drawing in and 'Winters Coming' and I'm already thinking of next year's season.

Recently picked up my 'Early Bird' Pass for Fernie and a trip to Japan may be on the cards ... 🙂 🙂

When does the 2017/2018 season thread start CFH? 😉

Patience, Grasshopper.

Junior is still skiing In Les Deux alpes so the season can't be finished yet. 30cm of fresh the last time he rang.

Patience, Grasshopper.

"I do not seek answers, but rather to understand the question."

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"Everybody was Kung Fu fighting
Those kids were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightening
Make sure you have expert timing"

Must be time for the 17/18 thread now?

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Soon, my children, soon....

i saw some nutcase building a jump on a tiny bit of snow that remains on top of the mountain here in Sweden.

The people are getting restless Flashy....