So we brain dumped and came up with a ski naming process. Kate likes it and so do I... so here it goes: Every season (at least the first) Grace will create three skis in the line. and all Big Mountain Skis (BMS). Each ski will be made in two sizes. I don't appreciate ever being asked if I will make a woman's specific ski. Nobody asks if I will make a men's specific ski. The ski really doesn't know if a male or female is pressuring the tip. And skiing is not a gender specific sport unless one wants to spec some pink and blue and market a "true ski experience" to men and woman. Enough of that. Grace will make skis to be skied on by people who want to ski. And who not won't define themselves by a skis graphics. But that's a story for another time.
Anyhoo:
Three skis the first year:
1: The KIWI Big Mountain Powder (BMP-KIWI)
2: The Kiellie Big Mountain All (BMA-Kiellie)
3: The Jake Big Mountain Touring (BMT-Jake)
The specifics of these skis will be outlined when they get outlined but the story behind them is reminicent of a great time.
Never has there been a better dog on this earth, one with more personality, power, attitude and dominance then KIWI. We've all had dogs in our day with great personality traits but Kiwi deserves the BIG MOUNTAIN POWDER moniker. Kiwi wasn't all that thin, as late night stops at the Good Times Drive through and three nights in the Arapahoe? National forest chewing on Elk Femurs will attest. These romps definitely affected his waist line, thus the reverse camber and side cut that will be specified in the middle of the BMP-KIWI. Kiwi had some attitude...and as a friend once told me, his name should have been fuck you.
Miss all 110 LBS of ya buddy,
Kiellie (spelling will have to be checked with Dooley, by the way how is your neck?) She was a lover not a fighter, she did everything from lick your face to lean on you with loving support. She once jumped from a truck, i think it was going too slow for her liking, on route 6 coming down from A-Basin one spring afternoon. She took to the cement like is was her job, did three tumbles and got up galloping with her ever present positive attitude. If you knew her style, she did it all, got away with it and loved everyone. The Kiellie does it all with love and affection. Jake, was a Black Lab to the fullest. Athletic, attentive, in shape and ready for any and all uphill and downhill pursuits. That dog had keen brown eyes that could advise you from tying an ill-advised dry dropper? he responded to every "load up", "sit" and "stay" by George (one hell of a telemark skier, smooth as his pooch). Simply put this dog could get around on all-terrain.
So that is it. Three skis for the first year...The BM line is all she wrote as I don't do 720's (anymore) and don't have the expertise to make a ski to do that on frozen ramps. Should I have rescued a smaller, quicker pooch then KIWI?
NO WAY.
Update on Kiellie spelling coming soon...off to get some non-toxic epoxy....and peruse some I-beams.
PS: I would post more pictures but those were the days before digital cameras and GoProvideo footage.
Anyhoo:
Three skis the first year:
1: The KIWI Big Mountain Powder (BMP-KIWI)
2: The Kiellie Big Mountain All (BMA-Kiellie)
3: The Jake Big Mountain Touring (BMT-Jake)
The specifics of these skis will be outlined when they get outlined but the story behind them is reminicent of a great time.
Never has there been a better dog on this earth, one with more personality, power, attitude and dominance then KIWI. We've all had dogs in our day with great personality traits but Kiwi deserves the BIG MOUNTAIN POWDER moniker. Kiwi wasn't all that thin, as late night stops at the Good Times Drive through and three nights in the Arapahoe? National forest chewing on Elk Femurs will attest. These romps definitely affected his waist line, thus the reverse camber and side cut that will be specified in the middle of the BMP-KIWI. Kiwi had some attitude...and as a friend once told me, his name should have been fuck you.
Miss all 110 LBS of ya buddy,
Kiellie (spelling will have to be checked with Dooley, by the way how is your neck?) She was a lover not a fighter, she did everything from lick your face to lean on you with loving support. She once jumped from a truck, i think it was going too slow for her liking, on route 6 coming down from A-Basin one spring afternoon. She took to the cement like is was her job, did three tumbles and got up galloping with her ever present positive attitude. If you knew her style, she did it all, got away with it and loved everyone. The Kiellie does it all with love and affection. Jake, was a Black Lab to the fullest. Athletic, attentive, in shape and ready for any and all uphill and downhill pursuits. That dog had keen brown eyes that could advise you from tying an ill-advised dry dropper? he responded to every "load up", "sit" and "stay" by George (one hell of a telemark skier, smooth as his pooch). Simply put this dog could get around on all-terrain.
So that is it. Three skis for the first year...The BM line is all she wrote as I don't do 720's (anymore) and don't have the expertise to make a ski to do that on frozen ramps. Should I have rescued a smaller, quicker pooch then KIWI?
NO WAY.
Update on Kiellie spelling coming soon...off to get some non-toxic epoxy....and peruse some I-beams.
PS: I would post more pictures but those were the days before digital cameras and GoProvideo footage.
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