Skiing - Buying own ski's

[Guest2]

Do you have your own ski's, hire or are thinking about buying your own ski's?

I usually go skiing once a year and always think about buying my own ski's if I was to go more than once a year.

I have hired the same make of ski's now for the past 4 or 5 years which costs around €80 (~£65) for ski and pole hire. I hire the all mountain Rossignol Exp

If I were to buy these, plus poles and a bag to carry the skis it would set me back around £670

Rossignol Exp 84 CA 2015 - £525 skis and bindings
http://www.snowandrock.com/rossigno...outdoor-sports/fcp-product/63568?listing=true

Poles - ~£70
http://www.snowandrock.com/black-di...ki-snowboard-outdoor-sports/fcp-product/63231

Ski bag - Double is £75, single £55

Carriage is also £25 a time

Doing the maths above it would be pretty pointless unless I went 3 times a year or did a whole season. Still, it would be nice to have my own ski's. Maybe I will get the poles as they will collapse into luggage and you always seem to get crappy poles with hire (bent, broken baskets, knotted hand holds etc)

 

[Guest2]

Yep, I have my own boots with a custom fit insert. Salamon ones I've had for 14 years. I can honestly wear them all day and they are comfy - not having to undo them at lunch or anything like some people do

To be fair to Skiset the 'excellence' hire ski's are always in great condition. I normally return them with a few marks and light scratches too and they don't quibble - I guess this is expected and they wax them out

Might just buy those poles and stick them in my bag

Guess I would need to have ski's and binding maintained too. Don't want to fly down the mountain at 70mph and the bindings fail!

 

[Guest2]

Interesting, very mixed views in here

I am looking into Scotland (Nevis) and ski hire is £35 a day! £70 for a weekends hire is quite pricey. There's also waiting around until after a certain time to pick up ski's etc. E.g. when we usually get to France, pickup is after 4pm so I could have got out on the slopes for 2 or 3 hours sometimes

I would be looking at buying all mountain skis that I know can cope with half decent powder and piste skiing (ones in post 1) People could ski fine in the 70s and 80s in powder on really thin long skis so im sure some quite wide mountain skis can cope