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How do they compare to the Shimano ME7?

Yeah I came across the Indy recently and they looked like the perfect knee pads for North Shore pedally rides - light but still with real knee protection. The charge seemed more like beefed up leg warmers to me (not saying that in a bad way, just serve a different purpose…much more on the XC side of things).

For someone who isnt a weight weenie - are these an obvious choice over the more expensive XT & XTR versions, or are there other things to consider as well (someone mentioned durability above)?

Was thinking of upgrading my full face helmet as my current one is getting old and the bike park is opening soon. What are people wearing these days? Taking a look at different models online and it looks like a lot of the current popular FF helmets are those lighter enduro style ones. Are any of you guys using those for bike park use? Most of them have the full DH certification but still not sure I'd want one in the bike park. I'm a pretty tame rider and only ride the bike park 5 or so days per year so I could probably get away with it but not sure if it's worth the risk.

If you're coming all the way from New England I would recommend just going to Whistler and then you can do day trips to Squamish and Pemberton as well if you like. Something like the Sunshine Coast or Cumberland are much smaller towns, that are nice but also quiet and don't have the vibe and all the tourist amenities like you'll find in Whistler. Not saying Sunshine Coast and Cumberland aren't great places for an MTB vacation - Whistler is just the "crown jewel" of the region in terms of tourist destinations and they have a ridiculous amount of trails both in and out of the bike park. You'd likely be underwhelmed and a bit bored in a smaller town when you aren't biking.

Posted by: XXX_er

the burning question is what do you want to do/ what will you have time & access TO do ?

Yeah I think maybe I should reframe what I am looking for - it's not that I want a ski that's suited for green/blue groomers... it's more that I can't choose exactly which specific days to ski so I find that I am mostly skiing on-piste when the snow conditions are mediocre so I want a ski that's more suited to that. I skied probably 20 days this year and can't remember having a proper "powder day" for any of them. My plan is to make the QST 106 my off-piste powder ski (since I know I wouldn't use a proper 120mm  powder ski enough to justify) and then have a more on-piste oriented ski for the rest of the ski days.

Posted by: Kevin26

Something kinda stiff+damp with proper camber will feel awesome on groomers compared to a q106

Can you recommend a certain model? My technical ski knowledge is pretty low... 

The Nordica Enforcer 94 and Blizzard Rustler 9 caught my eye but no idea if those are what I should be looking for.

Posted by: XXX_er

all you need is something easy to turn and it sounds like that is what you already own so save your $$$

I definitely don't need another pair of skis... I just like buying sports gear haha. The QST 106 is a great and versatile ski, I just feel a bit goofy riding around on those things on Seymour with my family down an easy green/blue run. I think I need to demo something a bit skinnier and see if there's a notable difference.

Started skiing again regularly this year as our child is now old enough to start skiing as a family. I buy a Whistler Edge Card but most of our skiing is just casual family skiing on the North Shore on easier green and blue runs. I have the Salomon QST 106 skis, which are great in general but seem like overkill for most of the skiing I do. Thinking of getting a pair of narrower skis for those family ski days but not sure what I should be looking for. I don't think I want true groomer carving skis but thinking something on the narrower side of the all-mountain category in the 80-95mm width range. Would a ski in that range be different enough from the QST 106 to justify a second pair of skis or would they be too similar? Any recommendations?

Posted by: craw

The magic happened when I was heading home. Got on the highway heading east around 11:30 and got to the Hastings exit after 1pm. I sat in that traffic for 90 minutes. I get that when complaining about traffic, that you are the traffic. But the highway without an accident or construction should be flowing properly at that time of day on a Saturday. Is this the new normal? Every time I've come to the Shore in the last few weeks it's a bit worse each time, with the gridlock extending for miles down the local roads that feed into the highway, starting around midday.

Wasn't that big project on the north end of the Ironworkers supposed to improve traffic on the North Shore?

Anyone familiar with the current snow situation in Squamish? Perhaps the Alice Lake area is clear?

So say you technically need a pass to park at the CBC lot (which would be annoying because only mountain bikers park there and it's never close to full) - would someone actually be enforcing this? If someone was checking passes I would assume that would be at the entrance to the ski hill parking lot.

So how are the trails holding up after all this rain we've gotten recently?