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I took them out tonight for the first time. Not ideal conditions for them, but I wanted to try them out. It was mostly groomed, packed, sugary type snow, with some patches of hard pack mixed in. The Wateas handled making high speed large and medium turns with no problems. It was really a lot of fun on a trail that I don't normally ski when it's groomed.
Very happy with the skis so far, can't wait to try them out on conditions they're more suited for! :beer:
I get the same thing with my High Society Free Rides. Find myself rather late in the bumps and get thrown in the back seat easy. I'm sure if I committed to skiing them exclusively, I'd straighten myself out.
I just had my first day on my new Elan 888 at Magic this past Friday. I some Marker Baron AT bindings mounted on them. Over all I really like the ski. It was much Better on groomers than I thought it was going to be due to it's size. But these things ripped on the cord and held a nice edge on the hard pack. It was also pretty easy to make shot radius turn on the groomers. The natural / bumped terrain was a different story, more due to a lack of skill on my part. My old Dynastars were about 70mm at the waist and 168cm long, the Elans are 88mm / 177cm so it was a jump in size for me. In the bumped up stuff I felt like I started very turn about 1/2 second to late and I was quickly in he back seat which these skis will punish you for. The short periods here and there when I had a rythem going these skis were awsome.