>Long skis are out. It's all curved, shorter skis now.

Oh sure. And I suppose they are not made of hickory now and they've developed some kind of hi-tech leather for the boots ? <bg>

I haven't been skiing for about a dozen years now and haven't shopped equipment longer than that, but I have seen the newer designs. Looks pretty cool. But the short skis of the 80s were just for people who couldn't carve turns and just slid their tails around and screwed up the hill.

I have been considering getting in shape for next winter and taking some new equipment out West. ( in Ohio, they ski the valleys and I just can't get excited about 300 ft verticals. Doesn't go with my Jackson Hole 100,000 pin <g> though realistically my physical skills have probably deteriorated from black diamond to blue bunny <s>)

At 6'2" my straight skis are 208s I'm told now I'd be using something around 188? I am tempted to go someplace and rent equipment just to see what it feels like.

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>>God I love Ski Cross. Could be made even cooler with a biathalon kind of version where skiiers were issued handguns.
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>>2 man boblsled blows my mind. 100ths of a second determine winners. Brakeman is blind for the whole run.
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>>Slalom, downhill and superG fun because you can imagine doing that ( just a lot slower and more carefully)
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>>Snowboarding still implies a pact with the devil. (and really carves up a hill in ugly ways ... sorry, in my skiing heyday I had a bumper sticker that said "Long skis truck - short skis suck" )
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>>Did I miss the mogul skiing or is that still to come?