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hcoles 02-23-2022 01:08 PM
I remember the rope tows. No one can match this... My first skiing was a Pinecrest Lake. Anyone ever ski there? I became the expert on the rope tows after practice at Dodge Ridge. I also enjoyed the T bars and poma lifts with the wire that rolled up. If you let go at the wrong time the guy yelled at you because the wire got caught up in the big wheel at the end. I remember finally getting the nerve to go on the chair lift. Of course we were on lace boots and cable bindings. Lift tickets I think were $4 and there was talk this was a bit high.

WPOZZZ 02-23-2022 01:17 PM
As a freshman at CU in 1983, I went skiing a lot. I remember that attitude towards snowboarding.

scott540 02-23-2022 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by mjohnson (Post 11614111)
Ahem. Cannonsburg MI,1986. Lions jacket probably from Meijer (Thrifty Acres for life!), blue jeans, garbage bag for when it might rain on that grim manmade snow. $6 student ticket from some deal for 6th graders with the Press. It can be done cheap, it builds character but it sure ain't classy! It wasn't until I got pro-room deals with my college ski team that I had my first new gear - the local ski-swap was (and frankly still is) planned for months in advance.

I remember Taos and Alta before they allowed boards, and all of the drama with the old people when they "embraced diversity". So silly. As said above in the thread, every butt on a chairlift helps, and where I ski I rarely encounter boarders though if I do they're mountain-aware and not idiots.

(some of the long flats in the unmaintained parts of Wolf Creek CO are "once in a lifetime" experiences for boarders, as in they'll never do that again - I've actually helped drag some of the friendly ones out when it's soft or at least loaned a ski pole)
Ha, cannonsburg in 1986. I was there. Senior in high school. That was a big treat for us since we usually skied at the Ski Bowl in Grand Haven. My brother rode a burton backhill when we weren't on our Rossis

stevej37 02-23-2022 02:39 PM
^^^ Caberfae, Crystal Mt, and sometimes Boyne here.
Boyne Mt and Highlands were always a treat.

scott540 02-23-2022 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by stevej37 (Post 11616116)
^^^ Caberfae, Crystal Mt, and sometimes Boyne here.
Boyne Mt and Highlands were always a treat.
We used to call caberfae the garbage dump because we heard it was built on a landfill

Joe Bob 02-23-2022 05:08 PM
I was 16, Kratka Ridge CA. Off of the helipad. Never boarded, never will.

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3rd_gear_Ted 02-23-2022 05:21 PM
1974 Mammoth Mtn. Chair Lift operator for Fritz, $3.00 per hr. , free lunch in cafeteria, free skiing on Monday. The steam vents on the mountain were active then, 90mm cannon for avalanche control

rsrguy 02-23-2022 06:06 PM
Started skiing @ badger pass in 1976..... Back when crashing had serious consequences... like getting hit in the melon with a ski tethered to your ankle... I live in Northern ut now within 20 minutes of 3 ski mountains, I taught at 2 of them. I've had the privilege to teach 9 of 12 grandchildren, most started once they could walk. I get to rip 2-6 days a week, good times...

Snowboarding revolutionized ski manufacturering and I'm thankful for it... The minute Jake realized he needed metal edges and a large side cut, we reaped the benefit.

Now my best days are pow, but because of fat side cut I get to carve trenches in cords. It's sweet to have fun in pow and pack.

I've been hit and hurt by as many skiers as single plank wanks.... Bottom line, I'm thankful for the advances spun to us as a result of boards. About the only thing I don't like is destroyed moguls and retarded turns that destroy a pristine pitch of pow.... Save the buffalo man

herr_oberst 02-23-2022 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by hcoles (Post 11615999)
I remember the rope tows. No one can match this...
My first stem-christies were learned off of the rope tows. Everybody I knew who learned how to ski when I was a little kid started off by wearing out the palms of their mittens getting hauled up the peanut lift.

rsrguy 02-23-2022 09:25 PM
At badger the ropes got wet (Sierra cement) you'd hold the rope and squeeze tight then as soon as the gloves almost smoked it would grip.... And jerk me onto my face... And stretch my arms 2 inches out of socket.

mjohnson 02-24-2022 04:38 AM
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Originally Posted by rsrguy (Post 11616425)
At badger the ropes got wet (Sierra cement) you'd hold the rope and squeeze tight then as soon as the gloves almost smoked it would grip.... And jerk me onto my face... And stretch my arms 2 inches out of socket.
I still remember the extra leather glove protectors and the "reach around" to get you up the hill. And if you were the lone 100lb kid on the line either you had to hold the whole rope up the entire way or it'd pull you off the ground in the low spots.

Character building, skiing in the midwest was...

mjohnson 02-24-2022 04:44 AM
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Originally Posted by rsrguy (Post 11616309)
Started skiing @ badger pass in 1976..... Back when crashing had serious consequences... like getting hit in the melon with a ski tethered to your ankle...
Tele-sometimes-skier here and with the oldschool Hammerheads binding release is a neck-and-neck race against femur release - and they're tethered to my boots. With the wrong life choices, skiing can still be dangerous! ;)

(actually it's pretty safe as most injuries come from the "phantom foot" and other things related to having a fixed heel in alpine bindings - freeheel usually translates into faceplant and not knee reconstruction)

mistertate 02-24-2022 10:32 AM
Came up as a skater in Craig Kelly’s hometown, a few years younger. There was no question

stevej37 02-24-2022 10:58 AM
I remember my older brother having downhill skis with boot bindings that had a large coil spring that was supposed to keep the boot in. What were they called?

herr_oberst 02-24-2022 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by stevej37 (Post 11617089)
I remember my older brother having downhill skis with boot bindings that had a large coil spring that was supposed to keep the boot in. What were they called?
They were called cable bindings. They were also ironically called safety bindings, because the toe pivoted. I broke my leg in 5th grade skiing wood skis with cable bindings. My next bindings were Miller, which had a toe and heel that were identical, 2 heavy springs in a hinge. You had to screw metal plates into your boots (leather with chrome buckles - fancy!) that would cause your feet to slip on ice and wet cement.

stevej37 02-24-2022 11:09 AM
Lifting a heel up...with the ski not following, must have been challenging.

The new bindings are very nice.

herr_oberst 02-24-2022 11:16 AM
There were clips on the side of the ski to grip the cable and hold the heel down.

Basically they were mountaineering bindings. Lots and lots of binding innovation in the 60 and 70's. At various stages in my evolution I had cable bindings, Miller, Look Nevada, Spademan, and I eventually settled on the various generations of Salomon 7x7. I remember the ski brake as one of the best inventions of my ski life. Trying to unwrap a leash and then setting the heel of the Look Nevada to line up with your boot after a fall and release in deep powder on a steep hill could be a pretty frustrating and time consuming experience.

Later, I just learned to not fall.

herr_oberst 02-24-2022 11:17 AM
Fun fact, a company in Austria called Geze made cable ski bindings and Porsche used the Geze spring loaded lever from these bindings as the engine compartment latch on the 906 race car.

stevej37 02-24-2022 11:26 AM
Here's my current pair....old, but I still like them a lot.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1645734356.jpg

flatbutt 02-24-2022 11:28 AM
Me on the left circa 1968. This was my very first ski trip to what used to be Great Gorge NJ. Note the high tech gear. :D That jacket was my Dads old Eisenhower jacket.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1645734458.jpg


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