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So the thing is if snow is dense, even a moderately wide skis will just float on top.
this day was late November at Stowe and it was really dense snow that had been blown around, you could easily stick a pole into 2 feet deep but when you skied it on a 100mm wide ski, it just skied like stupid nice groomer, and made it super easy to bend your ski into any size you wanted.
If you sinking in 100mm wide ski but it still feel "heavy" and deep, you best options are like I said above start using the heels to sink the tails down and rudder the skis around with a tipping movement first, or get bigger skis. The thing is deep heavy snow will eat skis that have tons of sidecut and are soft, and there really is nothing skill wise we can do to counteract the affect. Straight/stiff and fairly fat skis in that stuff become your friends. AS someone said the metal katana is great, also the 4frnt devastator, volkl confession, and Blizzard Cochise/Bodacious are good as well, an example of skis that would suck in that stuff are Nordica Patrons their sidecut and softness will cause them to hook no matter you do.
Now if your talking about wind slab, especially super deep aggressive slab, even the ski above will be difficult on open slopes and down right impossible if you need to maneuver around object like we do in vermont. You need almost no sidecut, a fair bit of reverse sidecut and full rocker.
There is a ton of moderate density snow that was wind affect in the chutes in this video. Since I know its going to be untracked, and I know its most likely wind affected I basically dont bother skiing these things on normal skis any more. I tour on a pair of 4frnt Renegades in the Notch area between smuggs and stowe and besides the weight its the best ski for job, the 2 others skis you see in the chutes with me are on 4frnt Hojis and Amarda Magic J, two skis that have a lot of reverse sidecut to them.
this is run done in some VERY thick and aggressive wind slab. This stuff is basically unskiable on a softer ski with more sidecut, the skis will basically just fold and try to take you to far across the hill and it can be impossible to release.
this day was late November at Stowe and it was really dense snow that had been blown around, you could easily stick a pole into 2 feet deep but when you skied it on a 100mm wide ski, it just skied like stupid nice groomer, and made it super easy to bend your ski into any size you wanted.
If you sinking in 100mm wide ski but it still feel "heavy" and deep, you best options are like I said above start using the heels to sink the tails down and rudder the skis around with a tipping movement first, or get bigger skis. The thing is deep heavy snow will eat skis that have tons of sidecut and are soft, and there really is nothing skill wise we can do to counteract the affect. Straight/stiff and fairly fat skis in that stuff become your friends. AS someone said the metal katana is great, also the 4frnt devastator, volkl confession, and Blizzard Cochise/Bodacious are good as well, an example of skis that would suck in that stuff are Nordica Patrons their sidecut and softness will cause them to hook no matter you do.
Now if your talking about wind slab, especially super deep aggressive slab, even the ski above will be difficult on open slopes and down right impossible if you need to maneuver around object like we do in vermont. You need almost no sidecut, a fair bit of reverse sidecut and full rocker.
There is a ton of moderate density snow that was wind affect in the chutes in this video. Since I know its going to be untracked, and I know its most likely wind affected I basically dont bother skiing these things on normal skis any more. I tour on a pair of 4frnt Renegades in the Notch area between smuggs and stowe and besides the weight its the best ski for job, the 2 others skis you see in the chutes with me are on 4frnt Hojis and Amarda Magic J, two skis that have a lot of reverse sidecut to them.
this is run done in some VERY thick and aggressive wind slab. This stuff is basically unskiable on a softer ski with more sidecut, the skis will basically just fold and try to take you to far across the hill and it can be impossible to release.
