Destiny Skywalker Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 Ugh that also sucks. Guess you need new skis anyway, then. I haven't made it up in 3 weeks. I think we are going to try to go days, there are only a few more weeks of night skiing and then the mountain is going to start shutting down at 5pm, so that will eliminate Fridays. Then after we get back from spring break, we might be lucky to see one more weekend. I'm going to try to go the first weekend of spring break since we don't leave until Monday. It feels like a short season this year. I'll pass on the details. I read the article, I can guess at what happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 On 3/6/2023 at 4:06 PM, Destiny Skywalker said: Ugh that also sucks. Guess you need new skis anyway, then. I haven't made it up in 3 weeks. I think we are going to try to go days, there are only a few more weeks of night skiing and then the mountain is going to start shutting down at 5pm, so that will eliminate Fridays. Then after we get back from spring break, we might be lucky to see one more weekend. I'm going to try to go the first weekend of spring break since we don't leave until Monday. It feels like a short season this year. I'll pass on the details. I read the article, I can guess at what happened. How is your leg? How do you think you will fair in spring conditions if it gets slushy? Ever since I looked up Snoqualmie a few weeks ago on TikTok, it is now a regular occurrence in my TikTok feed--so I am starting to be familiar with your hill . What are the conditions like now? What are the night spring skiing conditions like there? Now I am committed to buying now skis I can't stop reading up on them. I think this is what I am going with. What is your opinion? It doesn't hurt that it uses "dark matter material". Of all of the carvers, this one is the least aesthitically appealing--but I will get over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny Skywalker Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 Yeah the K2s are lame. I remember when they used to have awesome designs. I'm not sure the demos I was on had the dark matter tech. I do remember them being fairly stiff but light. My leg is fine, has been for a good 2 weeks. Slushy is usually not too big of an issue, if anything I prefer it to ice or hard crust. Conditions have been amazing the last few weeks because it's actually been pretty cold and we even got some light lowland snow. We are weird and March is powder season out here, I swear its the best month of the season. So it was a pretty bad few weeks to miss out. I'm going to see if Q wants to go Friday or Sunday this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny Skywalker Posted March 12 Author Share Posted March 12 Well, Q and I are sitting in the ER. She basically did the same thing I did a few weeks ago. I need to bitch out the ski shop about their binding settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 20 hours ago, Destiny Skywalker said: Well, Q and I are sitting in the ER. She basically did the same thing I did a few weeks ago. I need to bitch out the ski shop about their binding settings. Well here is to a speedy recovery and spring groomers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny Skywalker Posted March 13 Author Share Posted March 13 I checked both of our binding settings. She is at a 3 and I am at a 6. My old bindings are set to 7. That's well within the parameters of where we should be. I don't want her falling our of her skis but this has me worried. I think I am going to take her rentals back to the shop and ask them if they can confirm that they are working as intended. Honestly, this might end ski season for us. She has soccer tryouts in 5 weeks. I'm just not sure it's worth the risk. She says it really hurts to put weight on it, but has full range of motion. Straightening is a bit stiff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 16 hours ago, Destiny Skywalker said: I checked both of our binding settings. She is at a 3 and I am at a 6. My old bindings are set to 7. That's well within the parameters of where we should be. I don't want her falling our of her skis but this has me worried. I think I am going to take her rentals back to the shop and ask them if they can confirm that they are working as intended. Honestly, this might end ski season for us. She has soccer tryouts in 5 weeks. I'm just not sure it's worth the risk. She says it really hurts to put weight on it, but has full range of motion. Straightening is a bit stiff. I think a 3 is fine...if anything, if she is doing moguls at even a basic level I would even go up. What do I know about moguls...guess my mogul run.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny Skywalker Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 What I'm worried is the bindings may not be releasing even though they are set at the appropriate level. I think I must've come out of mine sideways since they were still locked down when I found them. She never came out. I guess I'm worried those shitty rentals we got this year are unsafe. I don't want her falling out of her skis. I told her next year we are going to probably avoid moguls a bit and work on carving and getting forward in her skis. That said, I've decided we are done this year. Between soccer tryouts and still 2 months of lacrosse yet, she needs to rest that knee and not risk it or she is going to be sidelined until summer or fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 On 3/13/2023 at 7:53 PM, Destiny Skywalker said: What I'm worried is the bindings may not be releasing even though they are set at the appropriate level. I think I must've come out of mine sideways since they were still locked down when I found them. She never came out. I guess I'm worried those shitty rentals we got this year are unsafe. I don't want her falling out of her skis. I told her next year we are going to probably avoid moguls a bit and work on carving and getting forward in her skis. That said, I've decided we are done this year. Between soccer tryouts and still 2 months of lacrosse yet, she needs to rest that knee and not risk it or she is going to be sidelined until summer or fall. How is she doing? Can she walk on it? I hope this experience doesn't make her too timid (causing her lean back). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny Skywalker Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 She's miserable and stayed home today. She has an orthopedics appointment this afternoon. Honestly I think part of it is being on crutches is pretty miserable, but its also just not getting better, which isn't a good sign. I think she will be ok by next winter but probably avoiding moguls more next season. I think the real key here was moguls in tight spaces. She needs to be able to pick her turns or traverse a bit still on the moguls. I also ski over them and turn on the tops, I don't ski in the alleys. That's how I busted my LCL last month, I was trying to thread the alleys. Nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny Skywalker Posted March 16 Author Share Posted March 16 Well, good news. We saw orthopedics today after a last minute cancel yesterday. He checked her x-rays, checked her growth plates and said all is good there. He didn't order a MRI but is pretty confident it's a strain based on pressing on her knee and making it flex. He wants her to wait until spring break to play lacrosse, and fitted her with a brace. Follow up when we get back from spring break, but he expects she will be fine then. Ski season is over, though. So I will return her gear next week and pack up mine. At least I have fresh wax for storing mine this summer. Did you ever get your skis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 On 3/16/2023 at 2:47 PM, Destiny Skywalker said: Well, good news. We saw orthopedics today after a last minute cancel yesterday. He checked her x-rays, checked her growth plates and said all is good there. He didn't order a MRI but is pretty confident it's a strain based on pressing on her knee and making it flex. He wants her to wait until spring break to play lacrosse, and fitted her with a brace. Follow up when we get back from spring break, but he expects she will be fine then. Ski season is over, though. So I will return her gear next week and pack up mine. At least I have fresh wax for storing mine this summer. Did you ever get your skis? Well that is good--I sprained my knee REALLY bad a long time ago (I think it was around the time we met). When I straitened it out for the x-ray, it might have been the most painful thing I have ever felt. It took me a few weeks before I could walk could bend it. It hurt even when i bent it slightly to take a shower, put on my pants, etc. Sorry about the ski season. We are getting some great spring snow. I did get my skis last Friday and took them up on Sunday. They are super fast through turns. In my old skis (all mountain), if I had to brake hard and turn, I would have to overcompensate and dig in with the wedge. In my new ones, if I have to brake hard I can do it as part of the natural turn because I am up on the edges more. In my ski tracker app, I am hitting the same top speed as my old skis, but I am maintaining a higher speed throughout the run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny Skywalker Posted March 21 Author Share Posted March 21 Nice! I think I need to get some carvers but I will have to shop online. The local ski shops only want to carry all-mountain or fat powder skis. I can kind of get up on edge but it's so hard. She's off crutches and now I'm thinking we may have over-rotated on how long she stays out of lacrosse, but she will be back after spring break so really she just misses this weekend's game(s). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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