Author Topic: 'All-mountain' skis and the occasional skier  (Read 1216 times)

jbotti

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Re: 'All-mountain' skis and the occasional skier
« on: January 04, 2012, 09:18:16 pm »
I often find that a carving ski can be an excellent choice in certain off piste conditions, especially when the chop is firmer and one needs manueverability. It all comes down to tactics. The ski can dictate what tactics you need to use to ski the terrain and the conditions. You won't use a SS to bust through crud, rather you will dance around it and do some amount of carving in it. But all of this takes experience and technique and it sounds like J2r you may not be where you want to be with both of these.

I do find that unless you have a lot of deep heavy snow, I do better and prefer thinner midfats than wider ones. My first choice would be something in the 78-80mm range underfoot with a willingness to go up to the 85mm range. Since you say that you may be skiing more on piste than off, it does make sense to get a ski that has some decent manners on piste and that will carve nicely if driven properly. Again this points more to the 78-80mm ski rather than something wider.