So I remember the day I first skied OG toons. They were so easy in pow and just cruised. I felt I could have a cup of tea while straightlining a pow field. But they were floppy and somewhat one dimensional
Typical TGR style I sold them and worked my way into protests, redeemers and other more versatile skis. I occasionally missed them and wondered why I sold them. So I bought another pair in 179 to see then back to 189. They brought back memories and more fun days. It’s a quiver ski
Now I picked a demo pair of 2nd gen Pon2oons for my buddies to use on Utah pow days to make their life easier. They were great to teach skiing in pow and just fun for guests. My buddy grabbed those and they went to CA.
It made me wonder if they were better and I had heard they were better on groomers. Fast forward to yesterday where we got 5 feet of Utah pow in the last week.
In most areas it was 1-2 feet of stable light pow with some wind drifting. Groomers were smooth
I thought it seemed a good time to break out the 2nd gen 189 Pon2oons and see if they were that different. We have a long fire road to a lift that I like to hit in the morning. Right away it was obvious how much stiffer and more stable they were on groomers. Railed and carved with running bases flat was super stable. Actually fun to carve.
On the fist pow run it was typical toons. Tail sinks and they just want to run the open face. Easy slash and smear and actually pretty light with pivot 15 in size 189. As the day went on it just got smoother and easier to ski and lap the groomer back to the lifts for more pow. So fast and floaty in the pow. Cover a thousand vert pow face in a minute.
More stable, better on groomers but still saves the legs on a really deep day. I even hiked a face at the end of the day. In the trees on the last face it was 2-4 feet of pow from the week. I was tired from the hike and the day but it was so deep. I was able to make fast pow turns with leverage and just hooting all the way down
So I will say Shane McConkey was a ski design genius and his skis just make pow more fun. It’s more fun if your legs stay fresh all day and skiing pow and runouts is easier. Some pics from the day that don’t do it justice but I know how good it was.
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