A good point by max--and in truth only BW suggested he'd own such a fat rockered ski as a 1 ski quiver. But that off course, Is pure conjecture as neither he, nor anyone else here has a one ski quiver! I have never skied with anyone who had such a ski as their one and only ski.
Better question is, for someone looking for a one ski quiver-what specific ski would you recommend. Heck, we can even fashion our own hypothetical 'every man' (or woman) skier.
Let's say he's a strong Intermediate skier, likes to ski 'all terrain', but by that he means all terrain found typically in a main stream resort and nothing extreme. Maybe we have two guys, one who skis at Vail and one who skis at Stowe. The Stowe skier does not ski BW's backcountry options, but does try to ski Starr on occasion-doesn't look so great doing it, but not terrible either. Both like groomers and ski (or try to ski) bumps and wider spaced trees when the conditions are good.
This is a fairly typical example of the majority of resort skiers I run across. They are also the sorts who are prime candidates of making a new one ski quiver purchase. Oh, they don't want a ski to help them with lessons (though they may be taking them or enrolled in camps)-they just want a versatile ski.
So what would you guys recommend?
smart skiers ski where the snow is and the snow is never on starr or any of the front five at stowe. well sometimes lookout doesnt get hammered and scraped down to ice.
In all honesty the trees both sides of starr(or any of the front four) are much easier to ski than the runs themselves. Starr scares me, people fall and slide on it all the time and its always scaped clean by people skiing it who shouldnt be on it. the tree even when packed down are not icey and doesnt have the same slide for life as the Starr headwall.
the only time to ski the front four is when they are being sun soften or you get first runs on a bottomless powder day on them and the bumps are erased.
the thing is I am not skiing the same resort people are skiing. I documented 100 plus days of soft snow skiing last year at stowe. If I never went in the woods or hiked that number would be about a dozen days for maybe a couple hours. If you get after it here, you can almost ski powder. You only need a couple inches of snow for a fat ski to float above snow.
4-5 inches of snow on IM78 your hitting bottom and your wondering why people are using fat skis because the snow its dust on crust.
4-5 inches of snow on 110mm fat rockered ski your skiing 'bottomless" powder and having a ball while gapic skiers and most of the general public are wondering what the hell is going on? Optimistic skis choice and alittle drive to get away from people leads to great skiing.
The point is I am value going uphill alot, there are days I ski 10000 vertical feet with out sitting on a chairlift. I would rather skin a 1000 foot glade a half dozen times than go ski icey groomers, and rutted bumps at stowe. I also do not take nearly enough pictures because quite often I am alone persueing my own fun with nothing to prove. this was 3 days after a storm in april. you can clearly see our skin track from the top of the quad and the tracks from the Gondi. Yet no one willing to put in the effort to ski this 1000 vertical foot line with no tracks on it. maybe this is Utah?
the same day the front 4 were scraped and icey.
its all about the places your willing to go though and you need these setups and a pair of lungs to do it fast
so Liam when you coming to stowe?
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