The solution to your quandary is to understand how PMTS approaches every single turn - no matter what part of the mountain you're on or what the conditions. If you learn how to turn without needing to twist your skis, you'll suddenly realize that you can initiate a turn anywhere, in any condition, on demand. The combination of tipping, counteraction and counterbalancing, flexing, and fore/aft balance management skills will "release" you. 
I think you may have missed my point here. I don't actually twist my skis to turn, I use the whole flexing, tipping, PMTS thing (at least, to the best of my abilities). My problem is that on steep terrain, with this kind of nasty lumpy snow, tracking through the snow is not enough - you hit one of those lumps of snow/ice and you're down, and that can get ugly. So I need to be out of the snow at the point of transition. Maybe I can do this just with a more pronounced leg retraction (both legs), to get right out of the snow? I'd love to see some video of this, taken at a leisurely pace - I've seen video of HH tearing down steep chopped up double black diamond slopes, but the speed he's going at actually makes this easier in one way, as he's more likely to blast through the problem snow. Are you suggesting that advanced PMTS skills completely obviate the need for the kind of hop turns we're talking about above?
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