Mojo 94 Review

[jbotti]

We had great fresh snow today. The wind was blowing over the ridge so it was big time wind loaded. It was easily knee deep in there and if you worked it you could get a small face shot.

 It was a prefect day for the Mojo 94 which I have in a 180 cm length. This is an extremely user friendly ski. It was very easy to stay more forward on in the fresh snow and it is a pretty soft ski so when I got back at times it did not throw me.? Float was excellent and I am not huge but not small either at 6 3" 185. It handled wind buffed medium sized moguls with 2 inches of fresh snow on them well. It was very easy to turn and quite quick edge to edge on the harder bumps. Edge grip is excellent but it definitely lacks on hard snow. On the hard headwalls where the snow had blown off several days ago and with 2-3 inches of new chopped up snow on it, on edge at speed these things definitely were not confidence inspiring, but still very skiable. Some of this may be because I have been skiing these headwalls on Fischer Progressors at GS speeds and it is a very different feel. Carving, the tips are quite soft so if I really slam the tips and the arc will tighten a lot which is nice but there are so many other skis I would rather carve on. I think the technical terms would be that this ski is soft and but torsionally reasonable stiff or strong. I read Bob Peters review of this ski and from that I would have though that it was a burlier ski and less user friendlly. Even Scott Dawgcatching called this ski on the stiffer side. Maybe I have gained weight (I haven't!!).? This is a great soft snow ski for those that want a user friendly ski. This is one of the easiet skis I have ever been on in fresh snow.

[Perry]

Interesting review on an interesting category of skis.  I have never skied on anything wider than 85cm and that was early on when my skis didn't get to Colorado and I didn't have enough experience to really be much of a judge of things. I am very interested in these twin tipped wide skis.  There was an interesting review on the Icelandic Pilgrim and another that is wider that I don't remember the name of.  These are skis I would love to demo, esp if I am out west and get dumped on.

[Ron]

Nomad.......

Interestingly, there is a really good conversation over at Epic regarding the true dims of the Nomads, http://forums.epicski.com/showthread.php?t=69062.  I e-mailed Icelantic for comments. I curious to see if gary's Pilgrims measure out to the published dims.

[Perry]

Ron - have you or anyone you know skied the Scouts.  I am curious how the little fat suckers ski.

[Ron]

no but I think the Scout is basically a really short Nomad.  Not sure of the overall flex and stiffness. try a pilgrim or nomad...

[Philpug]

There is a Nomad SFT coming next year... What is a SFT? Gary, would you like to buy a vowel?


I will say, Head makes a real nice ski. I would like to try the Mojo but I am not sure it would be the ski for me. While I appreciate the feel of the Head's, I just cannot warm up to them.