Nice spring pictures. For some reason your post made me think of this:
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Ah Colonel, those are far from XC boards. They are Volkl Explosivs with a 95 mm waist mounted with Hammerheads* - a great telemark set up for lift riding, although pretty heavy for skinning up. They would be absolute dogs on flat terrain. For making turns, I have never owned such a powerful ski.
