Short ski review cause I have nothing better to do.

Me: 5'9 178.96539 pounds I ski fast and slow, backwards sometimes and prefer my terrain to be above treeline and littered with rocks. Large cliffs are not my thing but I like to jump.
I got this ski as a replacement of sorts for my Bacons which have those silly walking bindings on them now. Where I live the ep pros don't get out much so I needed something 100mm and fun.
Skis I own LINE EP pro, Chronic, Bacon, Afterbang.

Line Blend in a 183 mounted plus 1 from the line: I have skied them about 8 days so far and I have been fairly impressed. I got this ski thinking it would be as playful as the old narrower version of the Blend(90mm) but in a wider package. This ski is nothing like the old chronic blends. Its stiffer throughout and has less sidecut... and its orange.

Pretty fun on groomed runs as long as you can use most of the run. G.S. turns come pretty easy but shorter turns feel sluggish. The ski has a speed limit on hard pack but you can go way faster than I imagined. A very damp, stable feel compared to Lines other offerings. Think Mothership getting tag teamed by a prophet 100 and a Chronic...

Powder: Shreded some drifts for a few days that were knee to waist deep resulting in pleasurable white fluff covering my face. The soft loveliness of the drift was usually followed by wind fucked rock hard boilerplate. This ski transitioned quite well and variable snow was no problem. I really thought the ski would get knocked around some more in weird snow but it exceeded my expectations and kept on chugging.
For a ski lacking any sort of tip rocker it handled wind slab exceptionally well. Very predictable entrance and exit in wind hardened/softened snow conditions which I seem to encounter far too often.

Negatives: Not as good at slow speed tomfoolery as I had hoped but I have other skis for that kind of skiing. Not the best ski for nothing but fresh turns but come on who really cares what 100mm waist ski you have on when its fresh all day. Pulling the mount back a bit would increase the pow performance.
I also found it a little big for what I want the ski for. (I know I'm a giant pansy!) Pulling the bindings this week and getting the shorter length in a 178 cause I'm a sissy boy.
I think this ski would make a decent quiver of one for some of the drier resorts. Not a hard chrging comp ski like the moship but decent enough for lighter agressive skiers who play on the whole mountain. And its orange.
Thanks for reading.