These are definitely lighter on the feet than I expected, but I think something like the Kilowatt holds a slightly stronger line in the crud. For a resort ski though, these really do it all very well. Lively, surfy (for a mid fat), and confidence inspiring are words that come to mind (skiing 186s with Dukes as an everyday ski). And of course, carves just fine on the cord getting back to the lift.

I have a pair of these and absolutely love them. Fat and damp for the powder and crud, but they carve amazingly well. Even when my friend, a sales rep for BD skied them, he was blown away!

Just throw some tele bindings on your Obsethed's, they should work fine. The rockered tip will help out for tele-ing in deeper snow (it's tail rocker that you want to stay away from for telemarking, due to the rearwards heel pressure of your downhill ski). Tele "specific" skis aren't any different from alpine skis in construction (except for a rare few cases). So if you;re just starting out, no need to buy a whole new pair of skis. The REALLY important things you should focus on are bindings and boots. For tele, getting the right binding/boot combo is far more important than in alpine...

186. Stability at speeds and touring is not an issue with 186 as the tips actually reduce your effective edge.

Karhu and Line are the same company. Line markets their skis as alpine boards, and Karhu as tele, but the Prophet 100 and Team 100 are the same ski except for the graphics (as the earlier posted noted). Either would make a fine fat AT ski. If going uphill is a priority you might also look into the Karhu Storm BC, which is a little narrower but lighter.

Same exact spot. I've owned a couple of pair, and found the suggested mounting point far forward, make the ski really "spoony" but super turny. I've moved back 3 cm from suggested boot center, and that was a big improvement.

Unless you'll be doing a lot of touring, go for the BD O2. Best binding ever.----------------------If you will be doing some hard ripping and don't require a touring mode you might also want to check out the Hammerhead it is very durable (they dont even sell a repair kit) and it has six mounting screws instead of four.

9lbs a pair

You can buy special skins for twin tip or you can modify the skins yourself, and simply buy another front loop and use the same process that you did for hooking it at the front of the ski for the back when your trimming them.

The Line prophet 100 and the Karhu team 100 are the exact same ski, different top sheets. The Karhus come with telemark and alpine mounting points. The obsethed is a rockered ski. That makes it more powder specific than the others. The fujas is a really soft flexing ski that doesn't perform as well as the others as an all mountain ski. The Line 100/Karhu 100 are the most versatile out of the skis you listed. I just bought the Karhu 100 because they can be found for a lot cheaper ($400 new if you search the internet) than the line 100. And I liked the topsheets better. The green is actually a lime green, very bright.You can ski these no problem with a normal DIN alpine binding. And the graphics kick ass.