Pretty Cool

By D. Joshua Christensen May 25, 2010

My review likely won't be very helpful.

I took this ski out on some of the worst conditions possible this year. It had snowed 2 days prior, but the day after the storm things started to get slushy. That melted snow quickly re-froze again and we had conditions similar to a coral reef...except somewhat sticky.

Why was I on this ski...no idea.

I decided to drop into a little chute up at Snowbird. I hit an ice chunk and broke the Demo Marker Jester bindings clean off of the ski. I now had to ski a 42m turn radius ski on 1 foot, while carrying the broken one in my other hand, on snow that these skis shouldn't have been on in the first place... I wasn't having fun.

I started to get the hang of skiing on 1 foot even though I was barely able to put it on edge. I got to the bottom of the lift, looked at the binding, and thought I could simply slide it back onto its track. I got back on the lift. Everything seemed okay. Immediately upon exiting the lift the binding ripped off of the ski again. I had snapped the plastic hardware for this demo binding so my attempt at sliding it back onto the track proved to be futile.

I began the unwelcome task of skiing such a massive ski on 1 foot again. This time I switched feet.

Needless to say, i was not a very happy skier. I cannot blame any of this on the ski. The few runs I did get on it with both feet were on some of the worst snow conditions possible. The ski seemed like it could be fun in deep pow (although I like a ski with a little more tail), I guess we will have to try it again on a better day..with better bindings.

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