backcountry touring skis

Booker C. Bense wrote:

How do you manage to turn on double camber skis?

_ Sidecut, but none of the S-bound skis is anywhere near as stiff
as a double camber waxable ski. They use a negative pattern base
that does not require as much camber to still be relatively fast.

I would suggest the other answer is "practice". Amazing what you can do
with more experience. As long as it's benign snow I can tele and
parallel my sidecut-free track skis, which I certainly haven't /always/
been able to do!

Pete.
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