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Who remembers?

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spotter487
Posts: 462 - Karma: 12
A thread I was reading before got me thinking about skiing back in the day. Who's been skiing for long enough to remember before there were even terrain parks? straight skis? helicopters lol? When there were a total of 3 snowboarders on the mountain? Or having some skier only/snowboard only trails? Its crazy how things have progressed and evolved. I started skiing in 1990 and have been doing it every weekend of the season since then. Anyone else feel me?
Dec 5 2008 11:30AM
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Rbamf
Posts: 792 - Karma: 15
i remember poaching "snowboard parks" back in the day before skiers were allowed in.

skiing's come a long way, but we shouldn't forget where we came from. Here's one for Bill Briggs and Glen Plake.
Dec 5 2008 12:00PM
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BennyV
Posts: 569 - Karma: 11
I remember hitting the "no skiers allowed" halfpipe and getting a whole lotta fuck you;s from the boarders hiking up it. Now skiers own the pipe, good stuff
Dec 5 2008 12:20PM
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sdfjklioeur
Posts: 2082 - Karma: 114
i remember being stoked on dialing my mule kicks. haha
Dec 5 2008 12:31PM
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oldskewl
Posts: 457 - Karma: 10
I remember when squaw valley only allowed snowboarding on searchlight at night
Dec 5 2008 12:31PM
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SFBv420.0
Posts: 2539 - Karma: 3,124

I don't remember any thing cause

"Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we are stoned

immculate"

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Dec 5 2008 12:46PM
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wh@t
Posts: 6204 - Karma: 51
this is a photograph of me and my little bro at Sierra. it was 97 i think. i was 5 and i had been skiing for 3 seasons. im on the left in the radical one piece.

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Dec 5 2008 12:49PM
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spotter487
Posts: 462 - Karma: 12
Yea I would always get yelled at for going into the "boarders park" lol
Dec 5 2008 1:31PM
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jmason
Posts: 1595 - Karma: 136
I was thinking about this just the other day...

I remember the snowboard only park and pipe. And then they started to let skiers in, but only on Sunday afternoons...

haha back in the day!
Dec 5 2008 1:38PM
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readiculous
Posts: 880 - Karma: 28
I started skiing in 86' when being a gaper was the coolest way to be!
Dec 5 2008 2:29PM
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Am.Aaron
Posts: 443 - Karma: 22
I remember going into the snowboard park in Fernie. They had a van in there for a butter box. That was so sick.
Dec 5 2008 8:39PM
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Drail
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the days when your skill level was judged by how many daffies you could do in one air.
Dec 5 2008 8:46PM
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k-rob
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i'm too young, i didn't start skiing til '94 and by then snowboarding was already the coolest shit eva and helis were pretty big on the scene.
Dec 5 2008 8:51PM
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carbon.pulse
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I didn't know you could get EC Headwear back in the day.
Dec 5 2008 8:58PM
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-dAvE-
Posts: 677 - Karma: 74
i remember when salomon came out with their first twin tips and every one had them.
i remember thinking parobolic skis sucked when they first came out cuz i delaminated 3 pairs of them in about a month. but imagine if we were still skiing on straight skis! haha, thatd be amazing to see in the park
Dec 6 2008 9:22AM
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wh@t
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yeah i was spancazzred for a while
Dec 6 2008 9:45AM
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smuggs
Posts: 6561 - Karma: 1,375
someone just watched steep,

and btw there was bad ass skiing going on way before those guys.
Dec 6 2008 3:27PM
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sykonaut
Posts: 346 - Karma: 11
I remember when I used to rock the gates with my hat that had these huge ass spikes all over the top.
Dec 6 2008 3:57PM
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wintersway
Posts: 5115 - Karma: 128
i remember going to the snowboard park and overshooting every jump doing mute grabs
snowboarders thought i was badass

and the jumps were tiny, so overshooting was nothing
Dec 6 2008 4:24PM
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charmander
Posts: 10636 - Karma: 373
my first few pairs of skis were pencils. when i was 4 i had blizzards, 5 got some atomics or somethin, then when i was 6 i got some dynastar shape skis, so stoked!
Dec 6 2008 4:31PM
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sykonaut
Posts: 346 - Karma: 11
Man, I rode Fischers and Volkl back in the day.
Dec 6 2008 4:46PM
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skibum00
Posts: 142 - Karma: 17
Yeah, I had a pass pulled for skiing in the "snowboard pipe". I had some Ficsher Vaccum Tubes and Olins in like a 205.
Dec 6 2008 6:39PM
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Blandct
Posts: 1858 - Karma: 37
ive been in da game long enough to member this shit
Dec 6 2008 6:59PM
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A.R.
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i still judge on that scale.
Dec 6 2008 8:36PM
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FreeBallin
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i remember my first daffy sneaking into the "snowboard Park".  Shit rules when you look back at it.
Dec 7 2008 2:48PM
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Style+eeze
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my dad still has his straight sidecut, 203 cm k2 skis in our basement. they are sooo dope, they have graphics just like the extremes, but are red with the k2 logo going down the ski fading into orange and then like yellowish. he has like the oldest salomon 2 piece bindings on them and i really want to take them up to the pass once and see how much they really suck...
Dec 7 2008 4:52PM
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spotter487
Posts: 462 - Karma: 12
Its been so long since I've tried straight skis, i wonder how they would feel again?
Dec 8 2008 12:30AM
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