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Advice on skis wanted.
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In article , Chocolate Moose wrote: I'm pretty much an expert alpine skier and am putting together my first AT setup. I've only been backcountry skiing once a long time ago and seem to remember that weight was my biggest problem. Anyway, I bought a pair of Scarpa Lasers so that part's done. Now I'm looking at skis and I don't want to sink a lot of money into something I may not use a lot. (I have a good resort setup.) Shopping around, I've found the following "deals" and want to know what folks here think of these choices: K2 Ascent 8611 (2003) - $199 -- Can't find much about these Atomic Tour Guide Superlight (2003) - $169 _ Both of these are reasonable skis, a bit on the light side though, but that may be just fine if you don't want to "huck". They will get thrown around in heavy crud, but are good spring corn skis. The Ascent gets better reviews as a turner. Atomic Tour Carv Alpin (2002) - $119 -- leaning toward these because of weight & $$ _ You should check out the reviews on all 3 of theses skis at Couloir magazine[1]. These skis sacrifice quite a bit of performance to be light. Depending on exactly what you want to do these might be appropriate, and at that price you don't really loose out much if you decide they aren't right. That's only 3 days rental... _ However, light skis are always a sacrifice in performance, but generally I find that the ablity to climb quicker and faster (ie. still have some gas in the legs to use on the ski down ) compensates for this. The one caveat to this is that there is no substitute for width underfoot in difficult conditions. If you're going to ski in a lot of windblown crud and crust, I'd look for something at least 75mm underfoot. You can always save weight by getting the skis shorter. Get your BC skis at least 10 cm shorter than what you use at the resort, you'll be even happier if you can talk yourself into getting 15 or 20cm shorter skis. Fisher Big Stix 69 (2003) - $199 -- Can't find much about these - - HEAVY, these are pretty nice standard alpine skis. They ski pretty well although I like the Big Stix 75 better, but they are heavy. If you want to go with a standard alpine ski you can find lighter ones than these. I'm planning (right now at least) to use these with Dynafit bindings. _ A pretty good choice. You should check out Lou Dawson's web site, lot's of good info about AT gear and Dynafit bindings in particular http://www.wildsnow.com/ _ We could probably give you better advice if you tell us where you ski and what kind of skiing you want to do. _ Booker C.Bense [1]- http://www.couloirmag.com/gear/revie...skis_nov01.asp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBP6ln1mTWTAjn5N/lAQG+7gQAgvKTdvVUgBheUzzp0smvXKEXuY40Ujet B4ign3lC3P0gFM7eMRGhogrsu1FQqY7d43HuSK2ghWDuOh0gYP LO6iGDx/nuwHOn ySQOH4zqeMr/VNBNm/WPgBJutpJgVHchVsQOXDgbAueLwuQyLcsHUe9FG5YBh2bi 2RAZmEvxYHg= =jbFd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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