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Equipment choice, especially boots & skis, is really a personal choice but for gear geeks here's what I use & can recommend in terms of quality, function, reliability, durability and manufacturer's support etc:
Skis PM Gear Carbon Llasa Pow's in 196cm with VIST 614 Free bindings. ![]() Simply beautiful hand crafted skis made in Reno Nevada USA. 40cm rockered tip with slightly rockered pintail twintip. Mounted on the line. Edges tuned to 1,3 degrees. 140/112/122 sidecut. 2mm camber. 39.3m turn radius. 1610mm effective edge length. Very light for their size at only 4124g per pair in the flat. Total weight per pair mounted is only 6660g & the carbon construction keeps the swing weight really low so they can really be thrown around for such a big ski. Simply the mutts nuts all mountain ski! Rocker makes light work of variable snow, crud & windslab. The stiffness in the mid section & high torsional stiffness gives great hard snow edge hold. Long radius & construction gives superb stability landing drops & on high speed run outs. Awesome float with a tip that will never dive.
Tip rocker ![]() 2mm camber underfoot
Tail rocker PM Gear 183 Bro PM Gear have made their 183cm Bro model for a few years now & it's their top seller. The 183 has now been upgraded & gets tips similar to the Lhasa's, new base/metal cuts, new top sheets, tweaked sidecuts & a few layers of carbon fibre replacing fibre glass resulting in a weight of only 3546g per pair in the flat. I've mounted them with the new Look Pivot 14 bindings & tuned them to 0.5,3. Their 125/99/114 sidecut, 4mm camber & 33m turn radius makes them a superb all mountain/all condition ski & the ideal two ski quiver with my Llasa's. Poles Scott Series C Element 5 carbon poles fitted with Scott's larger powder baskets. I really like Scott's great ‘hold open' strap for easy in'n'out. At two years old I snapped a tip off one pole in Utah & Scott replaced both poles with brand new ones foc! Mega sharp four point carbide tip is great on ice. Useful advice for transit protection of poles is to slide a matching length of foam pipe insulation over the shaft & then tape a small piece over the tip.
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