Ever skied powder in park skis?

I ski some Jmo's that are not tech. pow skis but still are around that realm. LOVED them in the park. They were so sweet. Had to sell them because I was SO broke. Sad day.
 
Lol is this thread all tweens or what.. I bought a pair of Atomic "powder skis" a long time ago that were 84 in the waist and I remember those things feeling so floaty in pow haha. Crazy how much things change. Now my park ski is 96 underfoot.
 
Haha..I had the candide's too...I was riding them until I bought domains 3 years ago, and they are still my one dudes full time rig...I wish I had never sold them but it got me a new ski buddy when my ski buddies are running thin. I still ride my concepts every now and again too when there's a skierX or something where I wanna go fast.
 
if you really know how to ski you should be able to ski pow with any ski but it does make it a lot more effort, especially on a center mount. but pow is pow and its still tons of fun.
 
First time I skied pow was on a pair of domains. I went from groomer to pow and I wasn't leaning back enough and straight rag dolled and garage saled real hard under the lift
 
Given that your park skis are probably ~80mm in the waist, and given that that's what we used to consider a fat ski (86mm was super fat, AK Rocket style), they're fine. I don't have park skis anymore unless you could old Line Soul Rebels (my rock skis) and those handle the pow very well obviously what with them being Pollards. But even so, I remember skiing a knee deep day on centre mounted first gen AR5s in Whistler (very heavy snow) and the only thing that bugged me was the mounting point.

Basically, park skis aren't the issue, it's the centre mount that can cause an over the handlebars type of feeling and you end up backseating a lot more to compensate. But you can adjust for that.
 
Yeah the only times I've ever skied powder was with my AR7's. It wasn't that bad, but I've never skied pow with wider skis so I don't know how much easier it would be. I didn't struggle or anything though.
 
Until I graduated HS I never had pow skis, just race skis. Those things werent bad, just couldnt hit too many rocks. I loved taking GS skis out though. Doesnt matter how fast you went, you would either destroy the crud or just blast over it. When in doubt, I would usually just point them and go.

Now, well I have a quiver of three..and its only growing

82 for early season touring/late spring

105 for every day

118 for deep/powder days

Needless to say, I would and can ski them any day of the week. /selfclaim
 


I can remember having used park skis on a 30cm day on Blackcomb once, and I was straight lining something in Ruby bowl sitting on my tails while a ski patroller cruised by me linking turns shaking his head. I made the wrong ski choice that day for sure.
 
Skied waist deep pow in VT a few years ago in park skis.... when you're having that much fun you don't even notice, just a little shin bang at the end of the day to remind you of a great day
 
this right here is key, center mounted park skis ride bad in deep pow not because they aren't wide enough, but because they are mounted center and have to much tail that gets caught and doesn't release properly while turning
 
My first park skis were og K2 Fujatives. At the time they were 85 underfoot during a time when all other park skis were 70-80 underfoot. Center mounted and so much fun. Tough in deeper snow, but does it really matter? Pow still beats park, regardless of equipment.
 
I rode pre-season Alta on a pair of Colby West Coreupts through Christmas (which at Alta is blower powder) and had a great time! You just have to keep your weight centered and come to terms with the fact that you're going to submarine all the time. However, I think it makes you a way better big mountain skier in the long run--it's kind of like riding park with no poles.

For the record, I had a pair of pow skis mounted up, I was just doing this for fun and to avoid excessive core shots in the pow skis.
 
Well that's not exactly a thin ski.

I remember skiing pow on public enemies, back in the day when I thought those were wide.
 
yep the first and only time i ever skiied deeper than a few inches i fell and spent a while trying to get up
 
I've only skied powder in park skis.

Recently bought myself a pair of powder skis, can't wait to see the difference.
 
I had a bunch of deep (2'+) days in Colorado on my original 1080's way back in the day. With the light and dry snow it was amazing once you picked up speed. The skis never really broke the surface unless you got air.

When I first moved to Washington, 8 years ago and had my first deep PNW powder day on the same old school original 1080's, I picked up speed off the lift into a few feet of new snow and immediately double ejected to my face. And then spent the next 10 minutes digging out my skis. To say I wasn't ready for the wet and heavy snow would be a complete understatement.

Different types of snow, completely different experiences.
 
first 2 seasons i would use the same skis in blower or ice it made no difference to me. Now that i have many pairs of skis i wouldnt go back unless i had to
 
Hahaha. No doubt that this ends up on a thread there. But to answer the OP, being an Eastcoaster, the powder days are few and far between. But yes. One unexpected powder day at Whiteface last season. It was fun as hell regardless.
 


This was on 165 park skis 85 underfoot, best ski day of my life so far. Legs got tired fast though!
 
Last season, i went up to a powder area with my friends, and we all had powder skis.

I had way to much speed, and my skis got stuck, and i did a half frontie down a hill, and landed on my back. lucky for me, it was all powder, so i didn't get hurt, lol
 
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