Equipment to avoid

Yup - I skied the orange ones that were pictured. They were solid as rocks. My feet were always warm. The boot worked well in warm temperatures when the plastic was softer but when it got cold you couldn't flex them at all.

I skied these with a Spademan plate binding that allowed the ski to flex well under foot. Had I skied any other type of binding the boot would have caused a flat spot on the bottom of the ski and the ski wouldn't have carved at all. Hey wait aminute skis were skinny and didn't carve so much as bend in the arc or so the theory was at that time.

http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/?Page=./vault/Equipment_Dustbin/spademan.jpg&dir=./vault/Equipment_Dustbin

Here's a web site of '70s stuff where I found the image.
I am surprized as to how much of this dustbin junk I skied....

The yellow volkl rentigers
The HAnson boots
The burt binding
the k2 boot - I was the other guy who bought those!! they made two pair I swear...
the spademan bindings

Quite a list.

I used to sell ski gear to work my way through college and found that I spent all my earnings on ski gear and lift passes. The whole ski shop work thing was a wash but it gave me free skiing.

http://skiwings.com/

:lol:

http://skiwings.com/

Oh dear!

I saw this website today. I was convinced it was a spoof :D

http://www.skiallday.co.uk/

Then I read that the manufacturer is exhibiting at the UK Ski Shows.

Hi Pavel,

Mu hubby would like to buy your "blinking poles" and he was wondering if you would be interested by his invisible skis ?

Snowgirl,

No need to buy them, I can show you how to make them!

You know of course there are some running shoes that have blinking lights for serious runners or children!

Well the diameter of my little girl's ski pole is just the right diameter to allow batteries inside the pole! With simple connections, a drill, some tiny lights you can have a light pole!

Great hit in kids slopes on a foggy day!


Another solution is to buy tiny blinking lights that you get at pet shops. People use them to clip to pets collars so they can be "watched". They look like hair clips with tiny batteries. They actually have three different color options!

Just clip to pole straps. Again great for foggy days.


Now for the "supreme" light option! In my area in car store they sell a triangular strobe light which is used for emergencies if car breaks down.It can be seen 2 km. away from car! It has three options. Full light, short duration pulse and 2 second pulse.
I always carry this light in my ski jacket. One day a very very heavy "London" fog ski day! You could not see 2 meters ahead!

Clipped light to my rear ski jacket flap and avoided getting rammed several times.

Hope this gives you ideas about lights!