FISCHER OTX 88 SKIN
The next question is whether a waxable ski with the kicker skin, or a waxless ski with the kicker skin best suits your skiing context. Regardless- waxless scales still suck on icy refrozen snow.ģ) Skins give excellent grip on refrozen snow- they may not glide as well as klister, but they give as good or better grip- and forest debris does not stick to a skin. In a world of climate change- refrozen snow is becoming a norm for all of us- my winters are increasingly becoming a constant roller coaster of temperature and precipitation extremes.ġ) Klister is the bomb- grip and glide on refrozen snow is second to none- problem is that it really sucks in the woods- everything sticks to it.Ģ) Waxless scales suck on refrozen snow- I know, I know- there is wide range of different waxless scale designs, some of which are better than others on refrozen snow. One that has always been important for shoulder seasons- or any skier that lives in a marginal climate of freeze-thaw events (I lived in a coastal climate for a decade where refrozen snow was the norm- FRESH snow required running home from school to take advantage of it). This is a very important issue for backcountry Nordic touring. What I need a ski for is refrozen, when wax will not work real well Here are a couple of interesting write-ups: *edit - it's getting hard to find E109 and E99, I hope they don't go extinct. Get them in shorter lengths and you get a very light, easy-turning telemark ski. Fischer E99 and E109 are easy-turning skis as well, and much lighter & faster for touring. A pair of 195mm Eons wouldn't be bad either. I doubt the kicker skins will hold up to downhill turning for long.ĭepends how much you want to spend too, usually you can find great deals on Sbounds and Madshus skis around this time of year. But for up & down telemarking on warm spring snow the scales are really nice. I'm sure you'd like a new pair of Asnes, like Nansen or Ingstad for this. I just tried using new Asnes skis with a shortened kicker skin for skiing around on granular ice and it worked really well. Aren't the Asnes USGI skis more of a nordic ski - really stiff and heavy? I think both the 78 and 88 will turn better than the old Asnes because they're designed with telemark flex profile. The 88 would be slower on the flats but probably a lot faster than the 112's. I did notice the current Traverse version has more camber than my brown Sbound 78s.but in a 189 I doubt they will be hard to turn.
I have them in 199's and they're easy to control with 3-pins and leather boots - light leather boots, not the Ski March. I just have not seen anything on sale, that I think fits the bill.Įveryone has their own likes so it's hard to give advice, but if you're comfortable even trying to turn the Asnes surplus skis then the Sbound 78 (traverse) is going to be easy to turn. For this type of ski, I think cheap might be good. It is a waxless base ski, I doubt I will fall in love with it. I know there is a lot of experience with both those skis. I still want to go out, and I still might want to make some turns provided it is filled in enough. What I need a ski for is refrozen, when wax will not work real well. On soft snow the scale do not annoy me or feel slow. I have a couple of downhills that I can make some turns on. If there is even 4" of soft snow on some kind of base, I would bring my S-112. Right now if I were to trail ski and there was fresher snow 30 degrees F and below the USGI is the ski. What I wonder about the 88 is the 88mm shovel. What I do not like about the 78 is that the waist seems narrow at 61mm, and some people say it is difficult to turn. On a powder day I that wanted to get some turns would have me on a different ski. I can also end up on my backside in more challenging conditions. I can turn that USGI ski on hardpack and can ski some fairly steep stuff at the resort. The other thing is I bought the USGI skis short at 200 cm because I thought I would have my son ski them. I like to kick and glide, and I think I go pretty fast on my USGI skis, but I do not see a need to go much skinnier. I learned to ski on straight alpine skis, and I really like my heavy Alico leather boots. It will take me time to go much skinnier. Two things to consider is that I consider my USGI Combat at 78-67-73 a skinny ski. What I need is a skinny waxless XC ski that will turn. The type of ski I want the most a Vector/ V-6 / Supercharger is not really the ski I need.
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