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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Remember skiing on the old long skis? That was hard shit. I can't even imagine taking a pair of old school 200s down a challenging run today.
That kid in a day glo turquoise Nevica ski jacket and Vuarnet shades, listening to Sabbath Volume 4 or Meddle from a Walkman in his jacket might've had more skills than the old man on carving skis today.
Echoes was such a great skiing tune... until it got to that whales-crying-in-the-deep part.
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Oh yeah . . . although at the time it was just called skiing. I didn't ski for a while, during which period the short carvy skis came out, so I never had a timely direct comparison. But I do remember how damn hard it was on anything other than groomers with 200s.
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