New twin tip proto
I knew this would happen, I build one sub then the craziness begins. You just keep asking, or others ask, “what would happen if…?” You keep tweaking flex and changing dimensions until you can’t remember what the original question was. But I’m not complaining, its really fun to be able to make skis to match your mid season whims. The latest ski is a true twin tip with center mounted inserts and a 5 7/8″ (150 cm) nose and tail. There are two sets of inserts which give you mounting options between 16 and 19 1/2″. We rode it today and it was a blast, unfortunately I have to send it to BARONTiERi cause it was his idea and cause he made a sweet Snowflake logo for me as well as all the work on the website and the ColorFool designs. I’ll be pressing a shop version asap though. Here’s a few before and after pics. The first one shows before the press and the second pic is after the top deck and sub have been cut to shape.
Today I loaded up all of my subs and took them to the mountain. It was a pretty heavy load but the goal was to try and ride them all, or at least most of them.
First though was to grab the 151 and head into the back-country to meet Eric and Cole, who already had four laps in.
After we were done riding powder we headed back into the resort for some groomer laps. We chose a fairly long run to test the boards on with both mellow and steep sections and ending with a lap through the boarder cross course. Eric and I switched decks after each run making sure that we both rode all the options. It was really informative seeing that each deck was set up a bit differently with respect to truck height and sub dimensions. Hopefully after some more runs like this on varied terrain I’ll have something to report but most likely I’ll just have even more questions to ask, which is fine.
So cool that you’re making subs now. And you guys are so lucky to have a resort to ride. I haven’t steped on a snosk8 since tahoe. I missed out on riding with some dudes today to ride in my dads new cesna. First time up in a small plane for me and quite exiting. But I guess these guys from White Salmon got permision to ride some sledding hill that they went to go ride today. Think I’ll stay in town and skate since it’s so nice and sunny out but curious to hear about it. I’ll be saving up to buy one of your subs for next season, this lib 43″‘s getting pretty toasted. Hope to sse you late March for the Hurricane, I can wait for the snowshoe tails till then. Google Karhu karver to check out the approach skis i picked up. I Plan on using them to assend Mt. Adams with my girlfriend and be the first to decend via snoskate!
Make sure to take lots of pics of your mt adams descent. I heard that they are putting up quite the cash pot for hurricane. 700 for slopestyle and 300 for the baked slalom. I sure hope I can swing it. Don’t forget you are always welcome here for some resort riding.