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Guys,
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I'm a little confused.

Kastle makes a RX70 which is roughly the equal of the Progressor 9. I demo'd the RX70 at 170, very nice ski with all the feedback of it's big brothers the 78 and 88. Make no mistake, that ski leaves RR tracks in a tighter radius than the 78. Is there really any dispute about turning radius on a groomer between a 70 and 78 ski made by Fischer or Kastle?

Skiing the 78 may approach the feedback and feeling of a 70. Gary, make your best 78 turns on a steep groomer, give Alice a camera and ask her take pics of your tracks taken from below. See what it tells you.

In John's photo's it is very difficult to make an objective assessment of the slope. The fact that it's groomed suggests something less steep and we don't see super steep pitches groomed much. If John states it's really steep, I'm not going to quibble about slope and I respect the tracks.

In Ron's photo's the steepness is more obvious, but, there are no RR tracks.? I remember last week in Targhee, the team dropped into a steep called "The Good". Nobody left RR tracks there, but, it was bumped up. If it were groomed, I still don't think I would have seen RR tracks. Ron, next time your at the Boat, take a pic of your tracks on a any steep groomer and compare them to Johns. Somehow, I don't think your trying to say the turning radius will be matched.

Say what you will, side by side, real time comparisons are the only way to know. Let's chill a little.

What the team needs is a bonding session in Big Sky. That area is the only one I'd abandon JH to ski.

Not to belabor this but" the good" was not steep maybe a 20-25 degree, the "The Bad" (the steepest) was maybe 35 for the first 10 feet, then it mellows quickly to sweet piled knee-depp snow. It's not steep. I can't take a shot at Steamboat of anything close ot 40 degrees beacuse there aren't any- maybe in the pioneer ridge by the chutes but there are no goromed runs above 30  so unless you have really skied a 40 degree line...., can we be done with this?   Mike, take the drop in your picture and imagine a sustained pitch (not 20-30 feet but 50-60 or more) of that degree- get it?