Rethinking the Quiver, need Travel Ski recs

[Shu Shu]

Nope it was the 2013, so maybe the comparison is not as useful, not sure if anything other than the hollow tips changed for this year though. Its hard for me to do a real compare and contrast though as I had only had about a little time on the Supers and no real consistent pow to speak of just stashes hear and there, so it's more of an impression. I enjoyed the Supers I just never made a turn with them that made me super excited. Not sure if thats helpful.

I have had about 15 days on the GPOs now from EC boiler and icy bumps (the kind with glare ice and rocks in the troughs) to 15 inches of crazy light blower. They can turn really fast if you need them to, I've taken them on many bushwacking missions e.g. tight east coast hard woods littered with little saplings going for your nuts on every other turn.

They are not going to be the powder machines your OG protests are. I did get some tip dive when the snow was knee deep and insanely low moisture, but I made adjustments. Once I got them up to speed it was not an issue it was just low angle, lower speed stuff that was a little weird.

What's really fun is I'm still learning new tricks on them, this weekend I was practicing hi speed hard pack slarves down the back sides of rollers. I find that these really require a neutral stance for their versatility to come out. Any time I notice that they're not responding how I expect, I just back off a little, get centered and then its like they do anything.

[Duffman]

Nope it was the 2013, so maybe the comparison is not as useful, not sure if anything other than the hollow tips changed for this year though. Its hard for me to do a real compare and contrast though as I had only had about a little time on the Supers and no real consistent pow to speak of just stashes hear and there, so it's more of an impression. I enjoyed the Supers I just never made a turn with them that made me super excited. Not sure if thats helpful.

I have had about 15 days on the GPOs now from EC boiler and icy bumps (the kind with glare ice and rocks in the troughs) to 15 inches of crazy light blower. They can turn really fast if you need them to, I've taken them on many bushwacking missions e.g. tight east coast hard woods littered with little saplings going for your nuts on every other turn.

They are not going to be the powder machines your OG protests are. I did get some tip dive when the snow was knee deep and insanely low moisture, but I made adjustments. Once I got them up to speed it was not an issue it was just low angle, lower speed stuff that was a little weird.

What's really fun is I'm still learning new tricks on them, this weekend I was practicing hi speed hard pack slarves down the back sides of rollers. I find that these really require a neutral stance for their versatility to come out. Any time I notice that they're not responding how I expect, I just back off a little, get centered and then its like they do anything.

The 2014 Super is very different than the 2013, they got rid of the stupid (IMHO) pintail, but its also quite a bit softer. Anyway, the GPO sounds really intriguing, if not a little wide for a one ski travel quiver. Shame I missed the promo Keith was rnning a week ago.