Awesome Powder Ski

By robby miller December 29, 2009

First, this is an awesome powder ski. It floats up high in fresh snow and busts through crusts and crud like they're not even there. In deep, heavy or wet pow, these are my go-to ski.

On that note however, that's where the fun stops with these skis. You really have to swing them out wide to carve down any sort of packed snow. Instead of laying trenches, you just have to make big, surfy, skidded turns on the groomers and packed stuff. In the bumps, they're a bit burly, tankish, and while you can easily get through them, it's just not the most fun I've ever had. For instance I skied about 6 inches of fresh over some decent-sized bumps in the Wildcat area of Alta and the skis just felt slow and heavy. Still, these are my first choice for fresh deep snow conditions.

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