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To: Behind Blue Eyes who wrote (27956)	9/25/2017 6:23:10 PM
From: JimisJim	1 Recommendation Recommended By geoffrey Wren Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

OT: I still ski on 195s and I'm only 5'9"... but when I learned in the 1960s, you extended your arm straight up and the tips of your fingers was the recommended length, but that was still wood w/fiberglass boards... later came the metal Heads, and then rosin/composite Rosignals (which I have on a wall now -- they are 215s, and were my favorite skis ever I think, when Rosis were still a smallish company), etc... that all changed later when the GLM teaching methods were introduced and moguls became the fad... the real improvements, IMO, have been to the boots... I still have an old pair of leather buckle boots on display, as well as my first "modern" boots (Lange Pros), but today's boots are way better than any of those both in performance, and more importantly to me as I get older, no numb toes ever all day even w/ just two pair of socks -- liners and "smart" wool... I remember having to take breaks as a young man not because I was tired or anything, but to warm up my feet -- I had minor frostbite on several toes from being stranded for 2 hours on a broken chairlift in the 1970s on a day where the wind chill was 18°F below zero... I was halfway up when it broke and they started at the top and bottom with slings to get everyone down... not the coldest temp I've ever experienced, but the longest coldest 2 hours I can ever remember. I was shocked one time when I decided to rent skis and the longest they had in the shop were 170s... I like long runs more suited to cruising -- or a downhill or GS type run where more edge is faster with better control, but of course terrible for moguls or short choppy approach to getting down the hill... to each their own... and I get all sorts of comments on my apparel on the slopes from the younger set: "nice retro ski jacket and bibs, dude" -- not retro, still using the ones I bought new in about 1985... amazing at some areas how just having a grey beard, etc., strangers talk to me all the time and I appear to be the oldest guy in sight that day...