Long day (and distance) from Bellingham to to Artist's Point atop Mt. Baker for the annual Ride 542. I need to leave you with these as video renders and I drag my poor body upstairs for a snoozy. Video tomorrow night.
And the Huskies WIN!
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Wow, so that is what it looks like up there. Great shots. See those largely black skis just left of the middle with different colored boxes/rectangles on them? That ski(one of the models)is "The Ski" hand-made in Provo (I believe) and signed on the top at the tail by the maker. Popular ski in the 80s and I have a pair (mine are white). Unfortunately, we don't make that many products here anymore including The Ski.
PS - four to the left of The Ski are a pair of Rossis(i.e., Rossingnols circa 1975-78). Actually 'The Ski' was more like 70s not 80s, but time flies.
I am a sucker for a cool fence (singular is fent?) and this one, next to a barber shop in an Airstream no less, skis away from the competition. I still have a pair of K2s around here somewhere that I should stand up to try to keep the deer from my plants.
WOW!! Amazing ride, scenery, awesommmmmme.
That second shot could have been taken by Graham Watson. Like the switchbacks in the Alps.
Did you see the length of those Dynastars? Might be 240 cm!
BTW, that's Mt. Shucksan in the distance. When you park at the Mt. Baker parking lot, there's a long approach hike to set up base camp. Then it's a scramble up Fisher Chimneys to the base of a snowfield, above which is a glacier where you rope up, and then change gear for a final scramble to the summit.
Thanks all. 'Twas a gas. Putting the finishing touches on the video as we blog. Be up tonight.
BTW, as I sat on the SSSII filming yesterday, my day was made when I heard somebody shout as I crept past. "Yo, RCVman!" Of course, it could have been the bumper stickers....still.
FW, I didn't know you could enlarge that photo to take a close look at those skis; just relied on memory of those old style graphics I could see in the small pic. Enlarging that now I can see there are a bunch of K2s in that bunch and they used to make them on Vashon. I skiied the short version of the red, white and blue K2 in the photo and they called them 'bermuda shorts. Thats about all for ski product history for today. Maybe I'll take a look at the bindins tomorrow. I like the idea of strapping some of those skis to the Airstream and moving to Aspen for a few years (however once gone I'd never come back...)
....geeze, I post one picture of some old skis, and ya'd think this was Warren Miller's blog....
WM is, however, a God.
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