Message #753

[jim-ratliff]

Sort of confession time.  I basically have two skis, but I never lug them both around.  When skiing here in the East I only use the Head i.SL Chip (maybe 85% of the performance of the SuperShape, but more forgiving when I want to just ski with grandkids or daughter-in-law).

For trips west, I only take my iM77 Chips.  Same argument.  Much of the performance of the iM82, but overall more forgiving.  I won't deny that there is a different skiing experience available with powder specific super-wides, but it doesn't keep me from totally enjoying the skiing that I do and the iM77 is much better on hard snow than the mid-fats of 10 years ago.  It's not a slalom ski, but it's not a slouch (nor is the 82).

In a sense, I guess everything is a compromise, you just have to balance them and decide which ones are important to you.