The Quiver Equation (navel gazing alert?)
So the Quiver Thread has got me thinking... for those of us with maybe 40 - 60 ski days (assuming most of TGR is Weekend Warrior status) and the fact that many of us have 10 pairs or so of skis, with lots of overlap... how do you chose?
Obviously we all have that outlier that makes sense for the bracket - ie a groomer ski for ice or a Lotus 138 for that 4' day.
So cutting out the outliers (spring touring sticks, megapow, GS skis, etc... that still probably leaves a large amount of overlapping skis.
But let's thought experiment here... let's say a normal "prime ski day" - 12" new snow over a soft base, maybe a touch deeper at your home mountain. Overcast but decent visibility. Normal resort pattern, ie first couple hours are mostly untracked, then switch over to soft tracked up snow and stashes if you know where to look.
What would you grab?
Additional questions:
- Are you doing hot swaps as the conditions change? If so, how many swaps would you do in a day?
- What happens when you end up with a 108 underfoot ski that punches above its width?
- What about a ~120 underfoot ski that is surprisingly good on firm snow?
- I notice a lot of us have multiples in the 115 - 120mm powder ski category. Is it more than waist width? Do you have multiple shapes/design intents mixed with waist width?
- Are we looking at moisture content, temperature, wind speed? What makes you grab one of your overlaps over the other?
- Does anyone have multiple lengths of the same ski?
For fun, list your quiver and let us know how you have segmented things, and your rationalization.
The Quiver Equation (navel gazing alert?)
If there’s 6” I ski praxis pow. If there’s less..who cares???? Frankly I don’t understand saving your fattest boards for the deepest days. A fat board on a 4” day can make you not hit the bottom. So why the fuck not.
If I can only take 1 pair into unknown conditions then that’s different. I’d take billy goats or Nordica E110.