TomD
I am not asking you read all those posts, but If I asked about a nonelectric pellet stove for my house people would just tell me it was stupid for hot camping before they read the post. Lonegreeneagle doesn'T "confuse experience with expertise" and [never mind] I found my self getting really pissed off and then it dawned on me - I do this for fun. I signed off of the group because I thought I was letting my my own bad experiences leak through and was offending my friends. I have no intention of writing things that offend people or of being offended because they think other ways are stupid.
So If I had said that I use the same skis that you do, someone would have smarted off, I was in fact surprised that they simpley ignored you.
Jim