Joe,
Thanks for the vote of confidence for the Steelers! Looking forward to the game--I already took Monday off
I know I should demo, but due to time constraints--that isn''t really possible--I will probably go with K2 all-mountain something--the length is the big ?. I have been a pretty loyal Tecnica boot/K2 ski/Salomon binding guy since I started. I used to get good prices on equipment through pro-deals when I was still an active membner of PSIA--taught me how much equipment is marked up--my 180 boots retailed for 400+!
Tim--yeah I know--skiing is my first love, but there is something to be said for boarding---I never would have tried it, and didn't actually start untill 94. Out of college, I was living in Idaho, and the resort at which I worked(Lookout Pass on the ID/MT border) had 2 total flake snowboard instructors--the ONLY snowboard instructors in our school of 12. So, afer the second time they both bailed on work--thus cancelling all snowboard lessons for the day--our director took all the ski instructors to the rental shop--had us strap up with boots and boards and iaid "today we are all going to learn how to snowboard"--this is without the benefit of instructors--just strap up and wing it. After about 2 hours I got all the basics down, and had everything pretty well fine-tuned at the end of the day--linking turns, some carving, speed control, etc. Only me and 2 other ski instructors stuck it out--so the next week we were "promoted" to dual ski/snowboard instructors. The learning curve for boarding was much simpler than skiing, and for the rest of that season I alternated depending on conditions(and lesson demands)--I still prefer skiing to baording(can't do moguls properly on a board!)
But really came to appreciate snowboarding and have been "mixing it up" ever since
