I was recently going through some of my skis in my garage to clear up some space, and with some reluctance I messaged my old college ski team via instagram to see if they had any team members who would be interested in some free, reasonably used skis.
I also asked them if they had any need of boots, gloves, jackets, goggles, helmets, etc, as I’ve been getting space cleared, and this stuff would either be going to them or to the local thrift shop. (All of it is circa 2007-2017)
fuckin radio silence on their part, going on 2 weeks now. However, I have gotten emails from the team asking for monetary donations in the intervening time.
I get that stuff from the late 2000’s, early 2010’s is going on 10-15 years old now, and I get that not everyone is down for previously used equipment, but I’m pretty sure that when I was in college I would have jumped at the chance to grab some free used shit, even old free, beat to hell straight skis that can be either trashed or made into a shot ski.
I’m always on shopgoodwill or Craigslist finding older skis that I don’t need but i
seem to buy anyways (liberty genomes, K2 hellbents, original bentchetlers, etc), so i personally don’t see anything wrong with a ski that’s got some mileage. I don’t think
im gonna be able to push them any harder than the team pros did the year the ski came out.
what’s the current NS take on old free shit? Are the young people here uninterested in skis that might be as old as they are? Are the OG schmies K2 Public enemies not a desirable urban rail ski at this stage? Am I just an old fart who wants the good old days back?
What’s your limit on how old a ski can be before you don’t want anything to do
with it?
