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Why this Review? If you're like me, you have looked at all possible reviews online (GearLab, Backcountry Canada, Blister, Freeskier), manufacturers' write-ups-promotional descriptions, and whatever Videos can be found...still there are missing pieces or blanks you're trying to fill in. Performance in Soft Snow? Well, any ski performs well in soft snow from soft Spring Snow to Powder. But what about Gnarly Conditions? Really Hard Snow, Firm Snow, Wind Firm, Chunder, Mashed Potatoes, Chowder, and Icy Conditions...the types of snow encountered during Backcountry trips or sidecountry trips in early season, mid-season, and Spring Season. You would like a ski to inspire confidence and reliability in these poor and variable snow conditions on steep terrain to moderate terrain, and not give you scary moments. So is it all the ski?, or how the skier-user skis it, or the snow conditions or some combination?

All sports suffer the same dilemma, the latest and greatest ice axe is not going to instantly make you climb Grade IV ice with sketchy sections and overhangs if you are only climbing Grade II, a new more expensive or custom-made bow is not going to make you spot-on 100% of the time at 30yds if you're only a 50% shooter at 20yds, and the latest and greatest ski is not going to make you instantly handle deep sculpted powder vanes in Haines, Alaska or a really hard snow to icy snow descent...a lot of variability and success lies with US, the user. We all know what "user error" refers to, and this applies to skis and skiing.

Maybe the worst information I found in ski reviews are thought of as "subjective reviews", Oh 'it's a locomotive that rides the rails through bigturns with a rock-solid power,' and 'the ski wants to shift straight into overdrive when it hits the snow', and 'a sleek salmon or a muscular swordfish.' How helpful is that? Are we even talking about skis? Are we even on the same planet? The best information I got was from watching whatever videos of the skis in action, but sometimes more of the focus was of the skier and not the ski, even the still pics were useful...what I was looking for was how they were skiing the skis (using the skis) in different conditions and different terrain...did they modify their technique, adopt a slightly wider or narrower stance, more or less edge control, or point them down and swing side to side? So I decided to make video reviews of skis that I own, a series of videos with little or no editing in various conditions to show the skis strengths and its weaknesses, to make better decisions.




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