Well at this point I feel that only testing will help to make the decision, but will be difficult to find a shop with such wide products range. Or will go blind and hope for the best haha. First priority being to change the boots.
All interesting picks with great performances I am sure, where giving it a try would be great in an ideal world.
- Völkl Deacon V-Werks or "Regular" Deacon 84
- Völkl Master 76
- Kastle MX83
- Rossignol Hero Plus Ti 78
- Fischer Curv GT 76
Liked Fischer GS, considered Head SL, Do they still make Stockli SX? Also Head I speed. I've read that Alps on-piste is a lot like Quebec and Ontario snow.
Never had the chance to ski in Canada, would say that in the Alps we have all type of snow and pistes shape depending on the resorts. But where I ski (2000 to 2500m altitude), you could start on a nicely groomed slop, going through a mogul for 200m then on pure ice to finish on soup on the very same piste. Not so much 10-15 km of nice wide groomers with easy snow half of the season unfortunately.
the v-werks is better if your truely an advanced++ skier, if not, most prefer the regular
Difficult to perfectly judge, but always skiing with local native skiiers and no difficulties to follow. Would be very different on a real SL or GS competition for sure, where I would not even be in the race, but more than fine on the day to day. Then am I good enough to smash down a very demanding ski and handle it good enough, no clue.
Depending on the review we hear we have mixed versions anyway, between the technical / commercial brief they receive from the producer, influenced or not by the sponsorship contract, and the personal feeling. Heard as much as "V Werks is super easy to ski and turn and perfect on groomers, high performance for medium efforts" than "V Werks can be overwhelming if not truly strong and expert skier, just does not want to kill you". Experience and test will decide.
I usually ski them about 50 days before giving them to friends, so can't really say, some of my older pairs has 50-150 ski days on them now though as its buddies main skies as well after I've used them.
I'm on pair 4? 5? now
Wow - That is a lot of pairs, must truly like them!
Overall more motivated by the V Werks or Kastle MX83, as can see them staying in my collection for 10 years and invest in a 65-70mm pair one day if really feel the day to be better equiped for blue bird nice groomers day.