I have thick skin and I feel welcome as I always have.
Jim to respond to some of your thoughts:
This issue with twin tip design has bothered me on some level for a few years (which is not to say that twin tips are bad, or that Goats are bad skis).? Yes the turned up tail does help people release. Having said this, it does little for me as I have wortked hard to flex agressively and truly release the skis in every turn. If one does this, or attempts to do it all the time, the ability to more easily smear a turn with a turned up tail disappears. Tiwn tips were really designed so that people can land jumps switch. IMO unless you are taking big air and landing backwards (which BTW many people are doing regiularly, but not me!!) much of the advantage of twin tips is lost.
As for how much of the ski is actaully in play and in contact with snow in deep powder, that is a good point and I'm not sure what the answer is. In soft fluufy powder I notice the issue I am talknig about a lot less. It is more at Squaw where the snow is heavy and the picth si steep that the actual riding length of skis is noticeable on fore aft balance, and having to muscle turns in tight spots requires reall effort even if the twin tip "skis short".
I skied most of last season in Montana. The powder was very light, most of where I was skiing was very steep, 35-45%, and it was pretty bumped up underneath )usually with not enough new fresh snow to hide the bumps). I traded floataion for manueverability (usually choosing to ski my IM 78's over an array of wide big mountain powder skis). And for me they were easier and better.
Of course there are lot of differnt ways to ski a mountain, and I am not saying that mine is the right and it is crerainly not the only way.
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