PWN had some challenging snow this year. A handful of storm cycles dumped a ton of snow followed up with rained leaving a heavy, dense, tail grabbing layer. Not quite refrozen, but nothing you could consider soft. My Bonafides were fun, but on days like these the tail would lock up making turning difficult at best; at worst the conditions got down right hazardous. @Posaune referred to it as leg breaking snow.
On one such day on the Friday before closing, the boarders and the rockered skiers appeared not even to be challenged by the snow conditions, but were having a blast surfing this snow. What makes a ski good in these conditions? A rockered tip? A rockered tail? If the tail provides the most benefit, why don't we see skis with minimal tip rocker and significant tail rocker? We see quite a few skis with it the other way around: rockered tip, minimal tail rocker.
Looking at skis to fill this gap for next season. Short list includes:
On one such day on the Friday before closing, the boarders and the rockered skiers appeared not even to be challenged by the snow conditions, but were having a blast surfing this snow. What makes a ski good in these conditions? A rockered tip? A rockered tail? If the tail provides the most benefit, why don't we see skis with minimal tip rocker and significant tail rocker? We see quite a few skis with it the other way around: rockered tip, minimal tail rocker.
Looking at skis to fill this gap for next season. Short list includes:
- Enforcer 104 Free
- Woodsman 102/110
- M-Free 108
- Hotshot
- Peak 104