MissySki
Angel Diva
I'm looking to put together a list of skis I should demo/consider in the ~102-106 range, probably the lower side most realistically. I'm 5'4" and 125lbs for reference. This is not a ski I will get a lot of use out of skiing in New England, and as such I have not worked hard at finding one even though it has been in the back of my mind at times as something I'd like to have around when needed. This weekend was the needed time which is why I'm bringing it up now. Well, I mean I'm not sure needed is exactly the right word.. my old Sheeva 9s at 92 underfoot held their own just fine through two big powder days in a row, totaling 36 inches, in everything I threw at them bell to bell Saturday and most of the day Sunday. Trees, bumps, steeps, less steep, untracked, super deep tracked, everything in between.. I had a ball and I consider the fact that I could ski in it for almost 8 hours straight Saturday and another 6 hours yesterday a testament to my 92s being plenty adequate and actually a load of fun.
Yesterday there was one time my skis didn't feel like enough, it was in this one tree area where the snow somehow was unexpectedly a bit wind loaded and heavier where untracked.. I do ski slower in the trees and it stopped me several times such that I just sunk down into the snow way over my knees. I had to shuffle out to tracked snow and that was skiing great at least. But usually I'm aiming for the untracked not the tracked! Where there was lighter untracked snow in other glades I was just fine.. so it was really the heavier deep snow that gave me problems on the one run.. which was not a surprise at all for me, but annoying.
Anyway, thoughts on an East coast powder ski to stash away for our very infrequent days like this that might give me some more float? I am not used to skiing anything wider than high 90s for the most part, but I'd like to push a little higher to spread out my widths as long as I won't be sacrificing too much in other ways like maneuverability. Oh and in typical New England fashion, it doesn't need to be an ice skate by any means but it needs to be able to hold an edge as needed off piste in the variable conditions we can have here.
Yesterday there was one time my skis didn't feel like enough, it was in this one tree area where the snow somehow was unexpectedly a bit wind loaded and heavier where untracked.. I do ski slower in the trees and it stopped me several times such that I just sunk down into the snow way over my knees. I had to shuffle out to tracked snow and that was skiing great at least. But usually I'm aiming for the untracked not the tracked! Where there was lighter untracked snow in other glades I was just fine.. so it was really the heavier deep snow that gave me problems on the one run.. which was not a surprise at all for me, but annoying.
Anyway, thoughts on an East coast powder ski to stash away for our very infrequent days like this that might give me some more float? I am not used to skiing anything wider than high 90s for the most part, but I'd like to push a little higher to spread out my widths as long as I won't be sacrificing too much in other ways like maneuverability. Oh and in typical New England fashion, it doesn't need to be an ice skate by any means but it needs to be able to hold an edge as needed off piste in the variable conditions we can have here.
