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    Recommendations for a fishscale ski for light duty backcountry duty

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    • JayCee
      2014-07-08 02:25:27

      Recommendations for a fishscale ski for light duty backcountry duty

      Greetings!!

      I'm fairly new to living in the Kootenays, new to living in the mountains, and also pretty new to getting out in the backcountry. Oh, and also very much a rookie DH skier.

      I've spent some time in some mild back coutry, both on snowshoes and on my Alpina RedBird skis (210cm, 60/50/55, with SNS bindings and boots). Neither one is ideal to me – shoes are too slow on the way down, and my RedBirds are both too skinny for my weight (240 lbs) in the powder, and too long and straight for some of the tighter trails. That's okay, really – I bought them for the groomed trails.

      I'm looking for something in a waxless ski, that will have a good amount of control (i.e.: tight turn radius), and decent float. Speed is not as important. I know that these kind of skis have limits – I am not looking to bomb down the steeps, or at least, not yet. The backcountry equivalent of green, or maybe blue runs, will work just fine for me, for now. Putzing around on a nearby golf course. Certain parts of Seven Summits, Morning Mountain, and so on. What I am looking to avoid is mucking about with skins, especially seeing as I will be going up multiple small hills (sometimes the same one, over and over).

      I'm definitely staying out of avalanche terrain, as I am usually going out solo. In case anyone is concerned, I've taken the Level 1 Avalanche course. I'm playing it pretty safe.


      Here are some examples of what I have been considering:


      The Madshus Epoch:

      http://www.orscrosscountryskis.....ckage.html


      The Altai Hok (with the Scarpa T-4 boot)

      https://altaiskis.com/products/the-hok/


      The Rossignol BC 125 with 3 pin bindings and decent boots 

      http://www.rossignol.com/CG/CA.....untry.html


      Any suggestiions you have would be appreciated. I know I'm early on this, but I really want to be ready to go when the snow falls


      Thanks!


      note: edited for clarity


    • skifreak
      2014-07-08 08:36:00

      Have a look at the review of the Voile Charger BC ski on this site.

      It comes in a scaled and non-scaled version, skis powder like it was made for it and can still cruise groomers at the resort. It's fairly light at 7lb 3oz for the 171cm version and is respectably fat at 134/110/123mm with a 21.7m radius. I have skied this ski and found it performed really well while still being able to climb gentle slopes thanks to the scales. 

      Voile Charger BC skis

      Voile Charger BC skis

    • JayCee
      2014-07-08 11:15:52

      Thanks, skifreak. They look like a great ski, but I suspect that the Chargers would be something I might look at in a few years. I need something slower and with a tighter turn radius. And they are not made for "the fat and lazy", the former of which I kind of am at the moment.  :-D


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