FT 62

[bgregoire]

On groomed snow with NNN-BC (no telemark turns, only P-turns):
-Ingstad 205cm, uncarvable, NNN-BC boot is not enough to have good control over skidded P-turns
-Fischer E88 189cm, like the Ingstat but slow and no torsional rigidity
-Voile Objective bc 178cm, painfully slow, too wide, shape of the ski is made for powder, not for east coast resorts
-Fischer e99 200cm, never tried at the resort but I bet they wouldn't be the worse

Hey Bobby! I love to ballet to! I bet you could learnt to tele quite nicely all those skis in your quiver if you had 3pins and a decent supportive boot (no cables required).

[Woodserson]

-Voile Objective bc 178cm, painfully slow, too wide, shape of the ski is made for powder, not for east coast resorts

Boby

What are you driving the Objective BC with? They might be slow on the flats because of the scales, but I ski these in bumps and trees and they are great. one of my favorite east coast skis.

[boby13]

Hey Bobby! I love to ballet to! I bet you could learnt to tele quite nicely all those skis in your quiver if you had 3pins and a decent supportive boot (no cables required).

Yes I'm sure that it would be easier to get the feel for tele turns with a good supportive 3 pin boot. I'm getting pretty good at striding into a tele stance in narrow hiking trails. But to link tele turns, I need a couple inches of powder. On hardpack I give up and p-turn.

Boby

What are you driving the Objective BC with? They might be slow on the flats because of the scales, but I ski these in bumps and trees and they are great. one of my favorite east coast skis.

I'm riding on NNN-bc and Alaska's. I use them mainly to explore the mountain off tracks. But yeah, they are awesome skis that turn on a dime, real good float for east coast powder but I believe the ski is to wide for nnn-bc.

My problem is that I often use the flattish resort trails to go in and out of the side country and I get passed by 4 years old kids on leaches. The FT62's solved most of my problems, I now blow by everybody at mach-10 speed

But I cant wait for next year to try the new Xplorer system with more supportive boots!

[lowangle al]

Allan nice job on the watusi! The time you post for your tours is pretty impressive. I’m like a little kid, once I’m booted up, check the wax for grip and glide, I go. You would think I could remember to look at the time!
It’s generally accepted when touring with friends, that it’s best to tour on similar gear. I don’t know if that would apply if I ever made it out to PA. It looks like I could handle your terrain on my Falketind, I would probably need the light weight just to keep up with your Pennsylvania lighting pace!

I don't think I go fast, 3-3.5 mph is about average for a tour without laps. I did a tour a few nights ago on T4s and Voile Charger BCs (112UF) We climbed 350' in a little over 2 miles and back to the car and average speed was 3.5 mph. I never noticed much difference in speed from my gear. That's between heavy Merrill leathers and T4s for boots and single camber skis from 70mm UF to 110 UF. Most of the difference in speed is from snow conditions. I will go faster on my heaviest gear in fast snow then my lightest gear on slow snow. That being said a well waxed ski will be faster than a no wax ski in good conditions.

I don't think you would have any problem keeping up with me Bob.