As for RadRab, I have relayed to him that his presence here is missed (and no he is not Jim Ratliff!!). Whether he wishes to resume the addiction (and let's be honest posting does have that quality at times) will be his decision. He was quite appreciative of everyone's comments.
I will have to confess that he's not me.
1. His religion is Jewish, mine is born again Christian.
2. He can clearly ski, has been for a while, maybe even comes from a racing background like Michael; I can clearly barely ski and didn't learn to ski until I was comfortably past 40 and have never even been on a race course (unless you count the brushies at Harb camp).
3. He gets a little heated getting his point explained. I make a comment, but have no desire to argue or try to change anyone's mind.
I have always wondered, however, why resorts didn't change grooming machines to use the front blade to level the snow, and then use the rear roto-tiller things to leave a 6" layer of powder on the slope. Wouldn't it be interesting if a wave of soft snow enthusiasm allows the resorts to, in some way, reduce their grooming costs while catering to a new sect. Instead of blue/green/black we would also have to add ?white (soft snow).
I also want to remind everyone that we all ski on reverse cambered skis all of the time; it's just that we have to supply the force to press the ski hard enough to reverse the camber from the resting ski shape.
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