My Private Idaho

Thanks, Tom. Funny, because when I checked on google, the only instances that appear are wine notes. Not thinking that several could be mispelling it, I figured it was some super-insider term. Go figure.
 
originally posted by scottreiner:
both snow making and slope grooming are spoof. stick with the old world skiing! boarding is like drinking white zin...
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Fuck, parabolic is spoof.
 
originally posted by Gregg G:
originally posted by scottreiner:
both snow making and slope grooming are spoof. stick with the old world skiing! boarding is like drinking white zin...
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Fuck, parabolic is spoof.
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You may joke all you want, but I use 7SKs.
 
It's either rope tow or helicopter.

And I make sure the same helicopter is never used for spraying.
 
Telemarking is non-spoof, according to my brother, but I prefer to drink non-spoof and just listen to how glorious (I'm sure) it is.
 
originally posted by Gregg G:
originally posted by scottreiner:
both snow making and slope grooming are spoof. stick with the old world skiing! boarding is like drinking white zin...
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Fuck, parabolic is spoof.
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OK, I gotta weight in on this now. My dad grew up in pre-WW II Europe prior to the advent of ski lifts. His skiing experience prior to his arrival in the US was in the Swiss Alps, where he'd strap sealskins on to the bottoms of his skis, schlep up a mountain, remove the skins, wax the wood with candlewax and then schuss downhill in the afternoon.*

From this perspective, downhill skiing as it's currently practiced is all spoof.

Mark Lipton

* This experience paid major dividends in the US: his first job after arriving in NYC in '38 was to teach skiing to Upper East Side matrons in Macy's. After he volunteered for the US Army in '40, he spent WW II in Alaska teaching new Army recruits how to ski in preparation for a winter war in Europe.
 
I tend to think of the ski itself, one that facilitates turning, as proper stemware rather than spoof.
I say this, having engaged in fairly drastic descent on my nordic sticks throughout childhood and adolescence. No slalom skis, no lifts and certainly no sealskins!
 
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