Replying to Moving to Big Sky from Ohio, would love some advice on skis
I am moving to Big Sky this month and am coming from skiing only in Ohio (Perfect North), West Virginia (Snowshoe) and Garmisch, Germany (Classic and Zugspitze). I would say the terrain in Garmish is less intense than Big Sky from what I know, but not by much.
I taught lessons in Garmisch and would consider myself at the very top tier of intermediate or the bottom tier of advanced. Maybe that's being conservative, I really don't know. I just don't have a ton of experience in powder, trees or cliff-y terrain.
I'd like a ski that can first and foremost KEEP ME AFLOAT IN POWDER. I was on some High Society FRs (92 waist I believe?) in Germany and I was skiing signifcant powder for the first time. It was most likely my lack of experience/knowlege of how to ski it, but even after getting advice and researching and what not I had one hell of a hard time skiing in powder. I would also like the ski to perform/turn well on groomers/packed snow and be able to be taken in the trees, as that is the one area I want to start skiing more. So basically an all-mountain powder ski that is easy enough to handle and turn over on hardpack. Twin tips, obviously.
I am 5'11" weighing around 150.
***I had skiid exclusively on Line Chronics before the FR's (the 80 waist up to the 85). So I'm pretty unfamiliar with mid-fat and fat skis.
Thank you in advance!
**This thread was edited on Feb 1st 2019 at 1:53:54pm
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