Tested length 185cm
First impression: unobtrusive and nearly a little boring… no surprises, just a very nice ski.
Tried it in various conditions…

Hard and freshly groomed run: good grip, easy turns of various radiuses
Soft runs: just a funmaker, from short to long turns, fast change of turns … a steamroller!?
Soft off-piste: not quite a ski for deep-deep pow, but perfect for easter conditions, easy short-turns, requires little effort to turn

Summary: a perfect all-mountain weapon, stiff enough for groomed runs, wide enough for off-piste: is your perfect friend, without being cheeky

and guess what? I bought these guys a couple of days later

And here it is!

Tested length 179cm
First impression: WOW, that weapon turns fast!

Hard and freshly groomed run: interesting! why? perfect grip when skied at its natural radius, but difficult with longer (no significant grip) or shorter radius (doesn’t like being pushed into short turns)

Soft runs: no troublemaker, but no fun-maker… runs okay

Soft off-piste: not quite a pow ski, dimensions not pow-enough! That is: although wide tip, tight is by far no wide enough

Summary: a good fun-machine for on-piste skiers, that love to ride one perfect radius all day long!

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Okay - the Italian Dolomites were quite nice… but we couldn’t help and went to St Anton for another week of skiing. But what should I say? Pow?

No way! More like Easter skiing, but with hardly any snow. Pretty poor conditions for january, but we tried to make the best out of it…here you go:

Schindlerkar: Schindlerkar and Mattun where okay until the rain hit the Arlberg
region. And it rained heavily up to 2.500m! Forget about the couliers directly
below Schindlerkar top station.

Albona: Hardly any snow on the Albona II side - hard, crusted, wind blown
towards Stuben. But no people at all, and runs groomed okay

Gampen: #34 from Kapall to Mattun was okay, but currently hardly any snow.
But look out for some chutes with windslab (but watch out for avalanche-danger!
under-layers are totally garbage!)

Rendl: Runs are okay, Park is closed! Roßfall only with wind blown snow -
But Malfontal is great as always! Found Pow last Saturday! Will tell you more about
Malfontal and how to get there soon (pix will follow as well)

To check out the latest conditions check out:

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