Message #16981

[jbotti]

I agree with BushW (I thought I might never say that ), it is definitely much harder on knees with wide skis on harder snow. I think if went for much lower edge angle turns it would have less impact on the kness, but who wants to do that!!

I also think if you tip first even off piste getting wider skis on edge just requires more torque on all the body parts involved in tipping. As we get older the knees just seem to bark from the tendons getting a little inflamed.

I think Sskelson may be right when he says maybe 90-95mm underfoot may be as wide as we need to go even in pow. I saw Max ski the Movement Pariah which is 92 (maybe 94 underfoot) and he clearly need nothing wider (at least not in Montana). When you get PNW heavy snow or what everyone  calls Sierra Cement, going a little wider definitley helps.

I have been hoping that the Chariot is the perfect ski for softer snow especially with it being thinner than the Shamans. We will see!