New member Acrophobia just described in Sheena's thread re: the Line Pandora something I've been mulling over:
Is this "floating" or "catching air" or just generally not being on the snow when you should/want to be a technique thing or a ski design thing or both?
One day, as the conditions got warmer and mushier, I found myself going on top of and basically skimming over mounds of mildly pushed around mash potato snow rather than cutting through it. I had skied the morning with none of this happening. I attributed it to my feet swimming around in my boots, the temperature "softening" the boot shell, and not being able to transfer the correct amount of power/energy into my stiff skis to carve into it. But now after reading this about the Line Pandora, I'm wondering if it's the design of the ski in that snow condition? So, is it me, my boots or my ski? Or all of the above?
Is this "floating" or "catching air" or just generally not being on the snow when you should/want to be a technique thing or a ski design thing or both?
One day, as the conditions got warmer and mushier, I found myself going on top of and basically skimming over mounds of mildly pushed around mash potato snow rather than cutting through it. I had skied the morning with none of this happening. I attributed it to my feet swimming around in my boots, the temperature "softening" the boot shell, and not being able to transfer the correct amount of power/energy into my stiff skis to carve into it. But now after reading this about the Line Pandora, I'm wondering if it's the design of the ski in that snow condition? So, is it me, my boots or my ski? Or all of the above?
