two new things
First: my new mattress arrived today. After three years sleeping on a two-inch-thick futon, I’ve upgraded to something approximating a normal bed. That’s one more piece of my 2004-era minimalism left behind. The closet I use as a bedroom isn’t quite wide enough for a full-size mattress, so I had one custom-made to fit – there’s about an inch on either side in which to tuck in the sheets.
Second: I bought another pair of skis. My 191s are fun, fun, fun on the wide-open groomed runs, but too much work on steep, fluffy, technical slopes. Down in the REI basement I found a used pair of 170 cm Rossignols – they’re a bit dinged up, but the price was right, and they’ll be fun to play on for the rest of this season. If the experiment works out, and I decide I like skis this short, perhaps I can upgrade next season.
You tried out any of the new parabolics ?
Thy are awesome to ski on. Great on long flat cruising runs and pretty damn nice in the steep & deep stuff.
I dont do much in the way of moguls any more (knees are too banged up to take it) so I’ve not done muc with them there.
They turn really quick and are very stable at speed (almost as nice as my old 210’s were)
Comment by norm — February 1, 2007 @ 11:48 pm
Yeah, the Völkl 191s I picked up last year are parabolics. It’s an amazing, unmistakable difference – I haven’t touched my old straight-sided 205cm K2s since. But they’re stiff and really long, for parabolics, and I get bogged down whenever I follow my friends off into the black diamond terrain.
210 cm is pretty long, though you’re about as tall as I am, if I remember correctly. What size parabolics did you switch to?
Comment by mars — February 2, 2007 @ 12:02 am
I’m usually using about 170 – 175 as I’m probably 6″ shorter than you are.
I find that’s plenty long and since they are so short and cut so deep they turn the instant you think about it.
And they’re stable when just cruising which is nice.
I don’t ski nearly as hard as I used to. I tore the meniscus in my knee 2 years ago playing hockey so even just cranking ski’s hard is touch on my knees now.
My 210’s were when I was a lot younger and skied a lot harder than I do today.
Comment by norm — February 2, 2007 @ 5:11 pm