chris...do yourself a favor, buy a used ski like the rickter for sale, and take the other 10k and invest it in a super risky stock...where the payoff is huge but the risk is outrageous...because honestly, by putting that much into a ski, its just going to depreciate ridiculously. you're better off buying a 2 year old ski from a pro whos getting a new one, a guy whos injured himself...or a guy the last rich guy that dropped 35k on a ski and realized...woah i just wasted a ton of money and now i'm gonna sell this thing for 1/2 i put into it.
listen, i'm not one to say how to spend your money, but i can think of about 150 ways in about 1 minute of better ways you can spend some of it *cough cough* start a damn business for yourself *cough cough*