arbusch
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
My stats - 5'5'', 115 lbs, aggressive, hard charging skiers who loves skiing trees, ungroomed runs, powder, chutes and who gets bored on groomed runs. Mainly ski in the backcountry when I can. Lives in Northeast Oregon with only small local hills and lots of backcountry terrain.
So I bought the Black Crows Daemon Birdie (2019) in 165 in length on sale at STP on a whim and sounded like a ski I might love. I threw on some dynafit bindings and decided I would try them as backcountry set up. With bindings, each ski only weighs about 4.1 lbs so not super light but not super heavy.
There are not a ton of reviews on this ski. I can't for the life of me figure out why. I have skied these skis 5 different times so far and love it. They tour great too. I have skied them on breakable crust, powder days with about 5 inches of new snow, at our local small hill with a base of ice with a dusting of 4 inches of new snow. These skis love to fly, easy to make tight turns in the trees, easy to make big GS turns on open runs, playful, planes on soft snow, and holds an edge really well. They are the most fun on soft snow days or bit a new snow on hard pack underneath. Not bad on the groomers - they don't chatter too much.
The biggest complaint was from my DH about how I beat him down our favorite run (a chopped/bumped up run) and he could barely catch me on the skis.
These are definitely stiffer ski for me which I am loving (but not too stiff). The reverse camber and the shape is unique but makes for a fun ski that pivots quickly.
My favorite day was when the 40++ crowd (me at the youngest of 42 everyone else in their 50-60s) was chasing each other all over the mountain on our local hill as fast as we could - like a bunch of teenagers. I could ski these hard and fast through the trees, chutes, and chopped up runs and keep up with all the boys. I was having so much fun that I might have fist pumped a couple of times coming down a run that day.
Highly recommend these skis if you like to ski fast and hard, love a ski you can turn easily, and need an all-mountain ski.
So I bought the Black Crows Daemon Birdie (2019) in 165 in length on sale at STP on a whim and sounded like a ski I might love. I threw on some dynafit bindings and decided I would try them as backcountry set up. With bindings, each ski only weighs about 4.1 lbs so not super light but not super heavy.
There are not a ton of reviews on this ski. I can't for the life of me figure out why. I have skied these skis 5 different times so far and love it. They tour great too. I have skied them on breakable crust, powder days with about 5 inches of new snow, at our local small hill with a base of ice with a dusting of 4 inches of new snow. These skis love to fly, easy to make tight turns in the trees, easy to make big GS turns on open runs, playful, planes on soft snow, and holds an edge really well. They are the most fun on soft snow days or bit a new snow on hard pack underneath. Not bad on the groomers - they don't chatter too much.
The biggest complaint was from my DH about how I beat him down our favorite run (a chopped/bumped up run) and he could barely catch me on the skis.
These are definitely stiffer ski for me which I am loving (but not too stiff). The reverse camber and the shape is unique but makes for a fun ski that pivots quickly.
My favorite day was when the 40++ crowd (me at the youngest of 42 everyone else in their 50-60s) was chasing each other all over the mountain on our local hill as fast as we could - like a bunch of teenagers. I could ski these hard and fast through the trees, chutes, and chopped up runs and keep up with all the boys. I was having so much fun that I might have fist pumped a couple of times coming down a run that day.
Highly recommend these skis if you like to ski fast and hard, love a ski you can turn easily, and need an all-mountain ski.