Gary (and everyone else) I skied the Rev 105 the past two days here in Montana. It's a wonderful ski. It is by far the most nimble 100mm+ waist ski I have ever been on. It may be the best tree/glade skiing ski ever made. It is a great soft snow ski and any type of soft snow from a few inches up to very deep it just skis great. It is not however made for skiing big bowls at speed with Super G turns. It responds best with powder 8 type turns. Heavy crud and chop is not it's forte. The crud and chop we get in montana is modest because the snow is so light. Even in this I needed to alter my skiing style some. The good news is that the ski is so nimble that you can ski around stuff rather than blasting through it. The ski definitely responds to PMTS or race oriented technique. Max (who has skied it for several days ) says he is getting the biggest angles he has ever gotten off piste. I have been noticing the same thing, and the ski really comes around when layed over especially in soft snow. To accomplish this you have to resist the temptation to pivot the ski which it will also do. On groomers (I have only skied it on groomers that had 1-2 inches of fresh snow on them) it carves really tight turns (16m but the ski has no metal and it is easily bent to make a tighter turn radius). The tips are rockered and somewhat soft and on really hard snow I think this might bother me some as I would be searching for the front of the ski only to find nothing there. In fresh snow it really does shine. I could probably ski the 191 and it might even be preferable, but the 181 also skis fine for me (again not great in chop).
I think you will love the ski.
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