You know, there was a time when the fact that you found Harald via Epic would have caused certain indivduals to go into convulsions.
My story:
Exactly when escapes me because of my advanced years, but I had purchased a pair of iC160's (maybe because of a reference from Harald's early book) and been very happy with them for a couple of years.? I had joined Peter's site and found his older review of the iC160, and "met" Ron and Gary on an earlier iteration of the forum and Gary just raved about his Head iM75's and Peter had selected it for a ski of the year.? So, adding 1+1 to come up with 3, I decided to venture into the 2 ski quiver arena.? Unfortunately, Head had discontinued the iM75 and introduced the iM77 - I assumed that Head had wide skis down to a science and that the replacement for the iM75 would be at least as good.? Peter's summary review from 2006 is below.? Forgiveness was a 3 (out of 5), lightness was a 3, quickness was a 3, soft edge was a 3.? I didn't check at the time, but the iM75 had 4's and 5's in all of those areas.? The iM77 wasn't a bad ski and it had a very pretty top-sheet; but was pretty stiff and had a very stiff tail.? This was when I first began to appreciate the subtlety of the reviews.? If Peter says "great ski for the agressive skier" then I realized that translated to "designed for someone better able to bend a ski than me". I aslo came to realize that the skier icons really meant something, and if it didn't have the "green skier icon" then it was aimed at higher level skiers than me - that the color of the skier icons didn't relate to green/blue/black slopes.
Descendant of the exceptional 75 chip, the 77 is biased more toward off-piste than is the 72 (which could have been in this group as well as in the cruiser collection). This is a fairly good choice for aggressive skiers who spend slightly more time off-piste than on and who are not addicted to bumps. Those who do spend appreciable time in bumps will probably find the 72 more effective.
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