![]() On a skinnier ski in this stuff your boot can be deflecting of its sides and getting thrown around. on sugar ground up hardpack the ski was extremely predictable and it really did not matter if I found the bottom or not. Sunday's crud first was 4-5 inches of sugar snow top of hardbase, and by the end of the day was push piled slush piles with scraped off hardpack in between. Skidded rounded zipperline for survival - 4 CrudĬrud is many things to many different people and I will continue to update as I find new types. Gs turning with double transitions thrown in - 8 Icey Bump rating Soft bumps ratingĭancing on the top to avoid rocks and bare patches - 5 I have yet to ski them on classic hard but edgeable eastern bumps. No ski would have been fun on the icey bumps today but a Brahma would have been best from my quiver. Again damp, predictable but its size made it feel much slower in these condition. Today was a different affair everything with bumps was extremely ICEY even by eastern standard. The sidecut is fairly straight so the ski does not do anything spooky, the forebody is stiff so it can plow really well, and the tail is soft its forgiving of slightly mis balances but still supports, if you are pivot slam bump skier this review might not be applicable to you as I simply do not pivot slam,and you probably should not either. The amount of option afford to me at least in these soft bumps by this skis was basically anything I could have wanted. Even in what I am sure was one of the biggest skis being used on Starr and goat that day I was having no issue slow it down with a round zipper to demo for my students, to smashing the front sidee, to mini GS turning and doubling/tripling bumps. The ski actually manage to feel quicker here than on groomers and in my initial review I will stand by my statement that this is a chargery Soul Rider that is not really harder to use. These were mostly soft, but there was some hardpack, as well as grass rocks, and stumps. On sunday I skied a lot of steep nonrhythmic bumps on our front four trails and look out. My X powers or Brahma would have been fun on top but both would have been eaten alive by the thick but breakable crust that formed. Maybe not the most fun but I could not imagine a day where these skis with a proper tune would not work. If you a strong skier this ski will be trusty worthy companion on any piste in the world. Even took them down some frozen bumps runs. The do good job of not trying to force a turn size on your in the really hard crusty ice while still gripping. Today was weird mix of extreme ICE, breakable crust, really breakable crust and some good grippy corn where more people had skied. the speed you can carry down steeper groomers like Nosedive, Hayride and liftline even with slush bumps all over the place is kind of crazy. Deflection basically does not exist but it can still carry NRGY from turn to turn.Īt the end of the day after my student had left and really got to open these guys up. It can feel tough to get on edge due to it width but once it there the edge will hold or smeer and both feel comfortable. On groomers the skis can easily be brushed though any radius turn and will happily GS carve even on really hard snow. this thing is such a weird mix of charginess, stability, dampness agility and easy going ness. My review of this ski in Utah still stands. Very crowded day I had a 2 boys who wanted to ski the steep and slushly. Sunday was hardpack groomers that quickly soften up. $60 dollars and edgewise base grind set to 1/3 and I was ready to try again. ![]() I took it home put my true bar on it and the ski was massively railed. The ski had good edge hold but was impossible to release and was a pain to ski in powder. When I first got this skis I mounted it with a pair of Attack 16 binding using my newly purchase jig a rex and took it out couple runs on hardpack and then we finally got a couple days of powder 2 weeks ago from today(2/316). they are based on comparing to everything. Note - this is the first review where I am going to do some number ratings. Mounted plus +1 from the factory line with Attack 16s I can turn left and right basically anywhere on any mountain usually clean edge to edge.ġ85cm El Capo 137-107-125 (actually measure 187cm) ![]()
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