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mr_steeze
Posts: 39 - Karma: 13
I'm moving out to Colorado in september and I was thinking about picking up some FAT pow skis. I ski on some 05/06 salomon foils for all mountain. Right now I'm leaning twards the line "sir francis bacons". Any suggestions?
Mar 29 2007 10:18PM
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trustey88
Posts: 147 - Karma: 10
the pontoons are sick but only are good in powder
Mar 29 2007 10:38PM
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coordy12
Posts: 1285 - Karma: 10
k2 maidens (ak enemy)
Mar 29 2007 10:43PM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
more info please
Mar 29 2007 10:47PM
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skicolorado
Posts: 4 - Karma: 10
I used to ski old 1080s here in Colorado and switched to the Sir Francis Bacons this year and haven't regretted the decision at all. The bacons are sick everywhere you take them. You can use them on groomed and ice where other fat skis would blow. I say get the bacons.
Mar 29 2007 10:52PM
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skithedirt
Posts: 1759 - Karma: 382
hellbents??
Mar 29 2007 10:53PM
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triebby
Posts: 8670 - Karma: 2,190
the fischer atua is a dope ass ski. i live in the east and used it as my all mountain ski and it destroys. you can almost ski it like a GS on hardpact and yet it is 96 at the waist, and when you get into pow it floats like a dream. i highly recomend it.
Mar 29 2007 10:54PM
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ski_powpow
Posts: 1247 - Karma: 1,200
Bacons are a super chill ski go for something like the AK enemys i ride them and they are sick or try some reverse camber skis like next years hellbents or the pontoons. Also try the thugs they are pretty fat. And you really want a big pow ski get the prophet 130's.
Mar 29 2007 11:29PM
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josh.
Posts: 3469 - Karma: 42
get some hellbents next year
Mar 29 2007 11:36PM
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Literature
Posts: 13673 - Karma: 3,085
Scott P4. Best pow stick ever.
Mar 29 2007 11:37PM
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ski_powpow
Posts: 1247 - Karma: 1,200
ya do it
Mar 29 2007 11:40PM
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dorikin
Posts: 1914 - Karma: 16
Jp Juliens rock in pow! Manageable everywhere else as well.
Mar 29 2007 11:55PM
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K2skipunk
Posts: 2837 - Karma: 111
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Mar 30 2007 1:18AM
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Albino
Posts: 1400 - Karma: 123
bacons fucker.
Mar 30 2007 2:02AM
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buchanan.
Posts: 1911 - Karma: 156
tugs? havent herd of them, who makes them?
Mar 30 2007 2:53AM
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Casey
Posts: 7875 - Karma: 24,683
maybe he's talking about atomics? not sure.
Mar 30 2007 3:03AM
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timoski
Posts: 3036 - Karma: 45
praxis praxis praxis praxis praxis praxis praxis praxis praxis praxis
Mar 30 2007 3:27AM
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french_fry
Posts: 4698 - Karma: 53
man up and get a stiff ski (not SFB's). Gotama, prophet, or reverse camber/sidecut (spats, arg's, praxis, lotus,...)
Mar 30 2007 3:34AM
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skithedirt
Posts: 1759 - Karma: 382
ya i think he means the atomic thugs
Mar 30 2007 9:21AM
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mr_steeze
Posts: 39 - Karma: 13
I have thought of the prophet 130s but figured they would be too fat for even Colorado backcountry. Who knows . . . . I am used to maine winters (ICE).
Mar 30 2007 9:21AM
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Beamer12
Posts: 3227 - Karma: 46
idk why but the whole look of them dosnt appeal to me.they just look wierd.idk much about the specs though
Mar 30 2007 9:30AM
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kickerking
Posts: 133 - Karma: 11
scratch bc wrs, or next years scratch steeze
Mar 30 2007 9:33AM
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mr_steeze
Posts: 39 - Karma: 13
I saw a guy with some pontoons in park city a few weeks ago and they looked sick.
Mar 30 2007 9:37AM
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crunkasfuck
Posts: 752 - Karma: 352
bacons will fall apart, i would go with salomon guns! 181
Mar 30 2007 12:45PM
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attitashfreestyle29
Posts: 3070 - Karma: 209
get lizzies they're so much fun here's my review https://www.newschoolers.com/web/forums/readthread/thread_id/284366/
Mar 30 2007 4:10PM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
bahahahahhahahaha


oh my youre ignorant
Mar 30 2007 4:47PM
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salomonskiier12
Posts: 2862 - Karma: 19
how well do they hold up?
Mar 30 2007 5:02PM
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artfullydodged
Posts: 8358 - Karma: 1,674
ARMADA ARGs!!!
Mar 30 2007 5:36PM
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ryanwar6
Posts: 1134 - Karma: 114
Rode the scratch STZ the other week, they were amazingly nice on shitty choppy snow and they were super stable. I didn't get a chance to ride them in pow, but with 110 underfoot, I imagine they would be awesome.
Mar 30 2007 5:46PM
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Silverton
Posts: 218 - Karma: 10
go for scotty bobs they are the sickest ski there is for powder, they let you keep an agressive stance while in the deepest pow.
Mar 30 2007 5:49PM
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DYNASTAR_LANGE
Posts: 73 - Karma: 46
DYNASTAR LEGEND PRO, XXL OR BIG TROUBLE
Mar 30 2007 6:46PM
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skiRay
Posts: 7558 - Karma: 926
it really depend on how much pow you'll be skiing. but hellbents.
Mar 30 2007 6:55PM
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kepler.
Posts: 8761 - Karma: 139
jea el gordo. i hear they kill everywhere not just pow
Mar 30 2007 6:57PM
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poofartpee
Posts: 7436 - Karma: 1,538
Fat A Pussy Alotta or what ever there called
Mar 30 2007 8:20PM
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kepler.
Posts: 8761 - Karma: 139
haha fat a pussy. they should change their name
Mar 31 2007 12:34PM
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skier24
Posts: 1216 - Karma: 11
its fatypus A lotta...
but yea its a weird name for a ski
Mar 31 2007 1:39PM
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skithebigA
Posts: 265 - Karma: 9
i have armada JP vrs Julian and there sick but if you want something for all pow then go armada ARG
Mar 31 2007 2:20PM
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4ReeL_
Posts: 3187 - Karma: 1,563
trust me you dont need fat skis if your moving here, we maybe get 2 or 3 pow days a year
Mar 31 2007 3:36PM
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*DrewT*
Posts: 7768 - Karma: 481
Nordica Blowers truck like none other
Mar 31 2007 3:37PM
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railslayer
Posts: 259 - Karma: 41
I would go with prophet 100s if you could get your hands on them
Mar 31 2007 4:23PM
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skicolorado
Posts: 4 - Karma: 10
My Bacons have held up fine, no problems at all. In fact I have never had a problem with either of the line skis I own (also have the Eric Pollard Pro models).
Apr 8 2007 9:58PM
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