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Long and heavy charger skis

arildGFB

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new cochise in the house! 192 & 186 pairs !

spent a lot of weekend on bonefide. damn nice on hard (but super perfect snow)
Where did you go, Anders? Seeing your interest in chargers, I should probably have you borrow my FL105s for a week next season.
 

anders_nor

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Where did you go, Anders? Seeing your interest in chargers, I should probably have you borrow my FL105s for a week next season.
hemsedal, still here :)

going to be here ish 10-14 more days this month at end.

yes please, Im located near oslo
 

Guy in Shorts

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Fixed a glaring hole in my quiver between the 102 Mantra and the 112 Katana V-Werks by adding the 108 Katana in 184. What an unwieldy beast of ski this is. Perfect ski for charging thru old cut-up powder. Would not ever recommend this ski to anyone. Plan on keeping mine.

Putting a little bend into the 108 Katana in the Steamboat trees
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ski otter 2

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Public service announcement:
Okay, I haven't posted about this ski before. It's long but it ain't heavy, after all.
So technically speaking, it doesn't fit here. But performance-wise it does.
(Again, not sure about for really big skiers.)

For me this ski functions as if it were heavy, the second of two such skis I have:
Volkl V-Verks Katana 112 c. 191 and Head Kore 117 191.

Both these skis charge deep crud well, as if they were heavy skis, just
for folks looking for long/heavy chargers. But just the Head floats well.

Today at Vail it was supposedly 7" on top of 5" on top of 8" on top of 3" over the
last four days. In most places it was over a foot, and on many slopes it was
a foot and a half or more. Medium weight powder snow. Crud/chop only after a few hours,
in some places.

I had my Kore 117/191s out; what a great ski.
I got them because they have more float than my Black Ops 118 or other powder/crud chargers,
but they also do as well in crud, though different; and are less tiring because
they are light weight. They have none of the instability that goes
with the current lightweight skis. Less tiring than the BO 118s, which weigh
a lot more. For a person of light or medium weight (like myself), at least,
I just have to recommend these. I did not get tossed at speed once
for hours of skiing the fall line, at times fairly fast.
Ballpark bombproof - at this length.
 

GregK

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Hey @ski otter 2 did you see the weight of the new Reckoner 124 that’s available in long lengths? Thought of you when I saw the weight in this Blister article but forgot to link it to you. I’m intrigued


 

ski otter 2

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Up to now, the K2 Reckoners have been more playful skis, and liked a more upright stance.
If the 124s are the stiffest in this line, it will be interesting to see how they ski, given their weight,
as you point out. Thanks.

(The Volkl Revolt 114, with its ability to charge both upright and driving forward, is one of the skis
that has me wanting to demo it, which I was unable to do this year.
I tend to mix up the Reckoners with the Revolts.)

My K2/Marker rep associate buddy says the past fat Reckoners are very playful and
fun in the powder trees, but are not so great outside this niche role. He will
let me know if the latest K2 fatty skis work in a more versatile, charger way. That may
have to wait a while, since last year he switched ski shops, from Larson's to the Vail
Gorsuch shop, which has sole North American dealership/distribution on the
VanDeer/Augment skis, and has a complete line of Stocklis also.
VanDeers and Stocklis have thus preempted most of his ski days and demoing.
He has loved and bought several of these himself.

I wish I could have really taken advantage of this availability of
these two brands myself, this season, but for various reasons,
I have not. Mostly because for me Vail is hard to navigate.

At any rate, none of these skis seems to be in the fat
long and heavy charger category. They are not really fat
skis, but more race-derived skis. So my friend has been a
bit distracted. He hardly noticed I was on Head Kore 117/191s today.

What a posh, densely packed place Vail is.
 

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