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Do it all ski that I can still tour on?
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I've recently moved away from the mountains, which means I'll aways need to travel by plane or overnight train to go ski now. This year I travelled with 2 pairs, but it gets too heavy when I include my wife's pair too and our boots/poles/avy gear. Wondering whether it would be possible to reduce my quiver down to 1 do it all ski
I ski all over the mountain, enjoy afternoons lapping the park, but also 3-4 hour tours up for some untouched powder. I already have a wide touring set up that I love, 96mm park ski and a 125mm powder ski.
I won't be spinning more than 360 so swing weight isn't too much of an issue. I will be hitting rails though. Leaning towards a twin tip so I can still ski jumps switch, and ideally pretty stiff so it doesn't fold in on itself in chopped up conditions. I'll be mounting a set of Pivot 15s W/ cast to it.
I'm based in Europe which rules out a few skis unfortunately. The Momentum Wildcat tour 108 sounds perfect but difficult/expensive to ship to Europe.
So far I've been looking into:
Faction Mana 3.0
K2 Mindbender 108Ti
Salomon QST Blank
Open to all recommendations though
Thanks
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i absolutely love my faction mana 3.0s, the rocker is great for park and they do super well in pow for 112 underfoot. 360s and more are no problem at all but i got mine mounted at -2.5 so i can’t say how they ski or trick at a further back point. for being mounted at -2.5 they float in pow very comparably if not maybe better than the rossignol sender free 110 in my opinion. that ski is super simular shape wise so it’s a good reference. i’d say this ski is easier to get along with than the sender free 110 as easy as that is to ski. they carve better than any 110 underfoot ski i’ve ever skied. if you have anymore questions let me know. I just skied a foot + of pow on them at keystone yesterday and today and i had zero complaints even at -2.5.
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What about one of the fatter Line Visions? Some really good end of season deals on those at the moment.
Where abouts in Europe are you? There are a few 190 Moments on Wilhaben if you wanna go used.
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