Skiing with my younger brother, Nate

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This is about Nate. Nate is my younger brother. All Nate's ski equipment if from thrift stores or bargain racks. His skis are from the DI(Deseret Industries thrift store in SLC). I bought them in September. I shrieked when I saw them at the Sugarhouse location sitting in the rack. Just 10 bucks. They are a wide bodied, stiff ski similar to new ski technologies. Only, they're 8 years old. Stiff, short, fat: red grafics, Coyote.
Nate used to ski as much as I do. I ski almost everyday. I live in the Wasatch, UT. My house is at 7,800ft. I ski in and out my front door. It's like old Europe. I am an experienced backcountry skier so I use my mountain access gracefully. If I need to go up or down the canyon then I hitch-hike. Some mornings, I skin to Little Cottonwood(a long haul), head N. to Park Silly(poach some DV or PC mountain high speed lifts) but generally I hit my north facing slopes for consistent deep powder. One of the best set ups I've had in years and I've had some beauties in my day. Chile, Jackson, Mammoth, Lamoille, NV.
Back to Nate. Nate lives in Elko, NV. We were born there and our parents live there now. A breezy 4 hour jaunt from the Wasatch. That's good!
He skied the Coyotes I'd gotten him for the first time last week. I had the Diamirs I'd gotten him in Mammoth, CA mounted. The first generation with the straps. Personally, that Black Diamond binding went down hill after that year. We skinned north up the canyon behind my house. Nate was his usual self, covered head to toe in second hand gear. He knows he can rock it. Dude could ski on old 2X4 wood boards and kill it.
He was stoked to try his new technology out. I laughed, of course. New to one man is trash to another. Nate and I were raised on skis. He's always been a dynamite skier. This day out was no different. I videoed Nate all day. He learned as a racer in the old Stenmark days. "These new, short, fat skis are just less work," he remarked. He is better than the rippers at Alta, 'the bird', or 'the village'. He's so powerful, poised and brilliant on skis. It's an art to him. He's a true renaissance man on the hill.