Skied my 188 Countachs at Stratton today - that’s not something I thought I’d ever do, but we got 20” today, so I broke them out.
I got a couple of runs of mostly untracked, some of which was powder on top of crud and some of which was proper powder. The rest of the day was cut up cruddy powder with partial refills, bumps and a lot of really fun trees.
The Countachs kicked ass. They were a great compromise between performing well in all of those conditions. Stable skiing fast-ish in cut up, cruddy snow abd super fun in the untracked. Most surprising to me is that they skied really well in bumps and trees. They’re big skis, but were surprisingly agile in pretty tight trees and skiing big, irregular bumps.
These skis are a great resort pow ski and exactly what I was looking for. Just the right blend of a stable, damp charger with enough long, low rocker to make them loose enough to ski a turnier line when needed.