JD
New member
First I would like participants to give a brief backround of time spent on fatties, and then their opinions on them.
Me. Skiing for 8 years now. Started on a 78mm waist, knew I wanted to be in the woods skiing pow from the beginning, and immediately felt that mid fats sucked for that. Tip dive, skiing from the back seat ect. within a few years I was on Cold smokes (110mm) then Axiomes (110), then Stormriders(91). Then I stopped buying passes and went back to 100mm and 110mm waisted skis. I also run a pair of 68 mm light tele skis.
My opinion. Fat skis make powder skiing more pleaseant and fun. And it makes a foot of snow bottomless if you ski the right pitch. I understand that for most people who ride the lifts,and folks in southern NE it's unreasonable to run a ski that fat as your main boardz because at the area your almost always skiing on hardpack, but in the back country of NVT, the only place I have any ski experience, fatties make the snowpack, ussually 24" plus, bottomless. If the snow pack is less then a foot of good snow, I xc on my alpoina cross terrain on low angle stuff that still feels nice, but when I die, i wanna be buried with my fatties because FAT is where it's AT.
Me. Skiing for 8 years now. Started on a 78mm waist, knew I wanted to be in the woods skiing pow from the beginning, and immediately felt that mid fats sucked for that. Tip dive, skiing from the back seat ect. within a few years I was on Cold smokes (110mm) then Axiomes (110), then Stormriders(91). Then I stopped buying passes and went back to 100mm and 110mm waisted skis. I also run a pair of 68 mm light tele skis.
My opinion. Fat skis make powder skiing more pleaseant and fun. And it makes a foot of snow bottomless if you ski the right pitch. I understand that for most people who ride the lifts,and folks in southern NE it's unreasonable to run a ski that fat as your main boardz because at the area your almost always skiing on hardpack, but in the back country of NVT, the only place I have any ski experience, fatties make the snowpack, ussually 24" plus, bottomless. If the snow pack is less then a foot of good snow, I xc on my alpoina cross terrain on low angle stuff that still feels nice, but when I die, i wanna be buried with my fatties because FAT is where it's AT.