Pow/Park

Park skis in deep pow will be hell for legs and your form. The tips will want to dive down so you'll end up skiing backseat the whole time. I skied park skis in 2 ft of pow at breck once... never again.

Where will you be skiing? West coast wet snow is super hard to ski on narrow full camber skis whereas somewhere like France you could be ok. So that is the first factor. The second is what park ski your riding. If it's a tradional narrow full camber ski you may have problems. If you have somthing wider and rockered like is the trend these days you may be fine. I used the on3p jmo which is 100mm with quite a bit of rocker as a park ski/pow ski and they were amazing. The NFx skis I had though suck I deep heavy pow as you may expect So be a but more specific in what skis you have and where you ski and we will try to help more.

If your looking to ski in pow more then a couple times then just get yourself a pair of pow skis, you wont regret it.

Shin bang and I buiit a booter out in the BC and he would always tomahawk when he hit it on his 95 park skis. I would be fine on my pie boards that's are like 120 underfoot. He brought out his pow boards the next time and stomped pretty much everything. If you want to take park skis out into the BC Id say you need some sort of rocker/ early rise, and at least a waist of maybe 100-105

If you're a good skier you can ski all types of snow on all skis.

If you will have access to frequent pow days then yes pow skis are great to have. But not totally needed. At times I kinda miss that deep sink and pop feeling of skinnier skis on powdays. Also, I liked that it kept the joeys out of the good stuff.

If you can rent a pow pair for a day, do it (if it's a good pow day), it'll be much more fun with wider skis (and less tiring). If you're not a very good skier, try to rent some, you'll have a hard time in knee deep with 88 underfoot... But if you're a good skier, I say just go for it with your park skis, if you've never done any pow you need to learn anyways, and once you get more comfortable, rent a pow pair to have some real fun on a big pow day. I shredded pow once for a whole day during a ski race trip, had 189 GS skis (around 68 underfoot) and there was a good 60cm of pow. Fell over quite a bit, and my legs were sore af at the end of the day, but still was tons of fun.

McLSIf you can rent a pow pair for a day, do it (if it's a good pow day), it'll be much more fun with wider skis (and less tiring). If you're not a very good skier, try to rent some, you'll have a hard time in knee deep with 88 underfoot... But if you're a good skier, I say just go for it with your park skis, if you've never done any pow you need to learn anyways, and once you get more comfortable, rent a pow pair to have some real fun on a big pow day. I shredded pow once for a whole day during a ski race trip, had 189 GS skis (around 68 underfoot) and there was a good 60cm of pow. Fell over quite a bit, and my legs were sore af at the end of the day, but still was tons of fun.

Yeah you can do whatever you want on any type of ski, but something built for those conditions is a lot more fun. I highly agree with trying to rent pow skis if you have a really good day... they are a huge pile of fun.

Mr.BishopYeah you can do whatever you want on any type of ski, but something built for those conditions is a lot more fun. I highly agree with trying to rent pow skis if you have a really good day... they are a huge pile of fun.

Yeah, of course, it'll be much more fun with some pow skis, but if he doesnt wanna buy some yet, then improving in pow with park skis is fine. Renting is optimal though, maybe it'll him wanna get a pow pair

McLSYeah, of course, it'll be much more fun with some pow skis, but if he doesnt wanna buy some yet, then improving in pow with park skis is fine. Renting is optimal though, maybe it'll him wanna get a pow pair

Oh yeah for sure. I mean yes if you've tasted super fat skis then park skis aren't great... but any skis pow is fun. I grew up rocking the skinniest 203s you could imagine in pow.

Whatever you got is all good. If somehow situation allows, getting the right tools for the situation is awesome though.