This past week I bought a pair of 2005 Volkl Karmas. They are a popular model of all-mountain skis that were very hard to find. Surprisingly the Midwest turned out to be a good place to look for skis. The volume of skis sold is not huge so models tend to stick around, and most people want carving skis to ski blues at, say, Breckenridge. I got a good deal too – under $500 for the skis. Now I need to search out some bindings on eBay.
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A few weeks ago MIT finally added Discovery Channel to their cable channel selection (which still doesn’t include ESPN or Comedy Central, but that’s entirely deserving of its own rant). I was watching discovery channel and learned of the existance of Ligers, as from Napoleon Dynamite – It’s pretty much my favorite animal. It’s a mix of a lion and tiger, bread for its skills in magic. Apparently Ligers don’t recieve some growth supressing gene, and as a result they are huge – like 1400lbs!
Why are we so blessed? We’ll get to that later, but in the meantime ski season has officially started for me with a trip to Killington yesterday. Besides being totally stoked and shredding really hard, I go to use the GPS receiver that I bought over the summer. I got the coordinates of several lifts which I plan to store in a searchable database. I will then use the database to analyze my track logs of ski days. I also enjoyed the top speed stat – I was unfortunately only able to hit 42.5mph because there weren’t many runs open and slopes were really croweded. Plus the snow conditions were really variable. My goal is to hit 60mph at some point this season. I think my best chance will be a Sunday River were the runs are long, straight, and ALWAYS groomed to the max.