![]() The tips sink in powder, and they're just not stable on crud. ![]() The major downside is that I'm skiing out west more, and these are not the best skis for anything other than groomers. Not heavy enough to kill you in the bumps though, which these things just eat up. Heavy enough that you notice it when you're carrying them around in the airport, and I've got little 160s. These skis are a little heavy, or at least the ski+binding is. This is a bit odd, because when I ski them I'd swear I was on a GS racer - I'm still pulling off tiny short-radius turns, and these skis turn them into the most beautiful carving parallel tracks you've ever seen. These skis claim to have a 24 m turn radius, which is quite long compared even to the freeride skis I've been looking at (which are generally 15 to 20 m). I ski a tight line, a leftover from learning all those J-turns in the 80's. I especially like the feeling at the end of turns when you start to unweight into the next edge, the skis LAUNCH you out of the corner. It always takes me a few days to get on top of them again, but once you do they start turning under you like nothing. I've been skiing my C9:18's for three seasons now, and I still LOVE them. Sticks ice like nothing I've skiied before.
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