realskiers

Admittedly, I was a bit intimidated by wider skis during my testing phase, convinced that if I did not learn modern carve technique soundly with a ski biased towards carving.....I would be "scarving" for the rest of my life.
 
Demoing a number of skis (nothing much wider than 80mm) limited my "overall" scope but fit for the genre I was "starting" with.
 
Truth be told...I always figured to be a two ski (at least) quiver guy eventually. Way too spoiled (says the Ms. anyway) not to be. She may be referring to the line of putters and bags of clubs here and there....  
 
Fact is, most of my skiing will liikely be on piste of varying slope, in the "hopefully" short term, until my skill set progresses. So a little narrower seemed a good starting point. However, I don't want to be strictly limited to any terrain if not by skill level and understand how various equipment can help the learning curve.

No illusions about a silver bullet ski out there for someone "at my current skill level" but as I struggled in the heavy snow (that day) while my daughter gleefully surfed by on one board, I was wishing for other options.
 
Undoubtedly, I will go through the learning curve in skiing as well as gear buying.
 
The good news??  Unusual this time of year, 8.5" new snow today up north. Bad news....Jury duty tomorrow, but if I bring in and eat some jeep parts...perhaps a section 8 will allow me to head that way. If not, the next day for sure.
 
(tempted to rent some wider skis if not for just experience sake and/or options to my skis if the conditions turn out to be...or transition into the same as monday)
 
Thx folks for the support and intelligent discourse..