If I lived on the east coast and skied in the east (vermont) I would only be on slalom carvers pretty much all the time except when there was a big dump. My guess is that with fresh snow I would be on the IM 78 (or a Kastle MX78) or maybe an 88 waisted ski. Not sure (don't know East Coast snow) you ever get the 2 feet dumps. The other question is how fast does it get skied out and my sense is that the answer to that is very fast. So if you will be skiing on crowded slopes with minimal amounts of fresh snow, with ice underneath, I have trouble seeing why anyone would want or need a real fat ski with a wide TR. Rocker would be the last thing I would ever consider in these conditions.
I do think it has a lot to do with the issues that many of us have talked about with ski intsruction in general. People are not getting what they need with instruction so they are more than eager to listen to the ski companies that have innovations that they say will make things easier. One thing is for sure, rocker is not making intermediates better skiers, but it is enabling some to ski terrain in pow that they never could have before. Unfortunately it actually makes their basic technique worse, but most don't care!! In that respect it really is a bit of a gamechanger.
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