Soft Snow Gymkhana - The Heritage Lab FR110

Got a bunch more days on my 192(193s? - not sure what the official size here is) these past few weeks in the Wasatch and they are my new daily driver. We've had a lot of snow with regular 6-10" refreshes so a lot of soft inbounds varying from deep untracked to cut up sunbaked mank when the sun comes out and it hits 50 degrees.

They truck through pretty much everything and you can lay them over hard or just play down the mountain depending on the terrain and what you are feeling like doing. No 'rocking horse' feeling unless I jump off something and land backseat in which case I definitely miss a more supportive tail but that is my problem not the skis.

Other notes:
- despite being long (193cm straight pull tape length - for comparison my 190 bibbys are ~187cm) the full rocker makes them easy to turn/pivot/slash as needed. I havent had any issues in any kind of tight trees. That said, if I was doing any rocker profile outside of the freeride rocker (like R110s or ST120) I would size down to the 187 as that would be more than enough ski with the stiffer tail
- Heavy. Great to plow through dense snow and not bad on chairlifts with the mounting point distributing weight pretty evenly, but if you throw them over your shoulder to bootpack or take a lot of long sidesteps you will notice until you adapt to the new norm
- grabby on flat slush - this is a critique I've had on all full rocker skis I have ever been on and I think it is due to the single point of contact underfoot taking all the weight. Somewhat solved if you can keep constantly on edge, but that is not always viable

6'2", 170lbs, mounted -1cm from recommended

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I’ve also owned the 184 Dev and 181 Sickle. And 181 InThaynes. The 180 FR 110 is better….it’s hard to describe but they feel slarvy and yet powerful at the same time. Kinda makes you feel invincible.

Re float. I’d say if this is the widest pow ski in your quiver maybe ok to go back a little bit. I’m basically on rec (-5.8cm as I’m 84 from tail and rec is -6cm). The float is just fine, but I need to stay centered in pow.

My thinking is the FR 110 is my soft snow, packed pow, resort ski. Where I do need some float, but once it’s tracked out I mostly want maneuverability through the chop, and in trees and tight spots. As this is basically what most inbounds skiing is at Whistler on a pow day. It’s not fresh for long.

For deeper pow days (eg I’m at Whitewater or Fernie), when I really want float in more untracked snow, I’m considering the Swallowtail R 120 (-7cm rec).

But damn I like the FR 110 so much, I should prolly get the FR 120 (-6cm rec). Don’t care if it’s too close to my Hojis and Renegades.

But I now see the FR 120 is unavailable in the 180!

Time to talk to Marshal!!

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but pretty sure you own(ed?) a pair of 112 reckoners. I'm curious how you would compare the FR110s to those. Or anyone else that's skied both. Really curious about the FR110s.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but pretty sure you own(ed?) a pair of 112 reckoners. I'm curious how you would compare the FR110s to those. Or anyone else that's skied both. Really curious about the FR110s.

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Ya I owned the 112 Reckoners. Sold them without skiing them so can’t compare.

I think if you’re skiing a 110mm waist ski, like a Reckoner 112, you’re in soft snow and should have rocker (no camber). Even with its full rocker the FR110 still grips hard when you need it. We dropped into Bushrat when the entrance was a bit icy. The FR110’s rocker allows you to feather/slide in, and then you just engage the whole ski edge for bite.

I’m a big FR110 fan.


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Correct me if I'm wrong, but pretty sure you own(ed?) a pair of 112 reckoners. I'm curious how you would compare the FR110s to those. Or anyone else that's skied both. Really curious about the FR110s.

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I’ve only spent 1 day after storm on the fr110 and 1 very early pre season on the 112 reck but both of them felt instinctual pretty quick. They both are awesome skis and I’d feel pretty happy on either for a soft snow daily. The fr110 is super loose and damp, I was going noticeably faster in trees, but it held its own way more on groomers than I was expecting for a reverse ski. Playful too. Felt like it was one of those “makes you a better skier skis”. I seem to really like bamboo and this was no different. Reck is softer but holds its own in chop more than I expected. Very playful. If I was doing spins and prioritized or spent anytime in the park, I’d probably go reck but the super loose ability to go fast in trees with the fr110 just put a big smile on my face that I can’t stay away from. Will be selling the reck and keeping the fr.


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All right so I mounted mine -1.5 from rec, -8 or 88.75cm from the tail (193s). Been skiing at Alpine. Snow has been great. Cold out and soft snow skiing.

These ski relatively short for their length, like the FL113s which I also think ski short, but moreso given the rocker profile and tail. Super nimble for 193, imo, but not greasy per se. Awesome on edge vs what I was expecting but haven't had them on ice or firm.

I have only been skiing skinny skis until this trip, 88 underfoot max. So I was pumped to drive these guys and not just park and ride. These feel relatively light too, for the size. I could ski slow behind my kid and bang out super tight turns alarmingly easily.

As my kid's been taking breaks hanging with gramps in the lodge the last cupla days, I've taken about 10-12 laps off Summit chair and I think think these planks are the perfect compliment to the FL113, or any other beefy chargers for that matter.

Steep softish bumps were totally manageable and if I lost any balance I was able to recover no problem. I only got gassed when making big airplane turns, which happens with all my skis for the most part.

I can see these being a great western daily driver option for sure if you ski mostly off piste. I like grabbing the squads and cochise usually because they make everything seem so quiet and easy, but these will steal a significant share of time across the board.

I can't get enough of the quiet smooth feel. The mount point felt great too. I ski the squads and 193 MVPs at -8. The MVPs tail can wash out sometimes at that mount point and I've considered bumping them up back up to the original rec for that reason, but I don't get that on this ski. The tail is there, which I like.

I also had Velo take them out for a half hour or so and here's his notes:

"I took them out on summit and from my first lap into the blacks and avi debri and they were very intuitive. Switched back to Katanas later on and couldn't ski any better.

They were easy to ski, loose and playful, stable bc they're long. Core layup felt good and they had great edge hold.

Skied shorter than I expected, and thinner. Felt like a 190 105 Salomon or something.

Only thing I'd change is maybe go back -1cm, I felt a little tail behind me bc 193cm and progressive mount. I could easily get used to that though. I want a pair."

Enjoy mags, I surely will. I think if you are looking for a ~110 or a versatile resort pow ski you should give these a hard look or roll the dice and just get them, it's a safe bet you'll be stoked on them.




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Thanks again for letting me try. Thinking back, I really liked them. I want

There’s a pair of 180’s in the Outlet for a good price. Drilled for P15’s in my BSL even… but I don’t need more skis.

https://heritagelabskis.com/products/hl-outlet-skis

Posting here so someone else buys it before I break down.

Just do it - sell your other skis

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There’s a pair of 180’s in the Outlet for a good price. Drilled for P15’s in my BSL even… but I don’t need more skis.

https://heritagelabskis.com/products/hl-outlet-skis

Posting here so someone else buys it before I break down.

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They are mint. I think they only have 2 days on them.

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Just do it - sell your other skis

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Yeah, what he said


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Grabbed them

Share the same bsl

Gotta give them a try


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There’s a pair of 180’s in the Outlet for a good price. Drilled for P15’s in my BSL even… but I don’t need more skis.

https://heritagelabskis.com/products/hl-outlet-skis

Posting here so someone else buys it before I break down.

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Thanks!



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Grabbed them

Share the same bsl

Gotta give them a try


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Good call.

My R110s are becoming my favorite ski.

:D

It’s a really fun ski.
I had to change my style. But after that it worked so well.

I had a dream I had my R110s shipped to my sister’s place and she brought them to the shop for mounting before my arrival. When I got there the bindings were pointing to the left by about 15 degrees.

I was irate and the shop wouldn’t make it right. Said I was wrong.

I woke up like— hey, wait a minute. Yeah, I’m glad that was just a dream but that’s not the R110 dream I want to be having.

Anyway, just proof that I can’t stop thinking about this ski.

Figure this is as good a time as any for my full 186cm FR110 review. 325 BSL, mounted at rec (87.25 from tail)

About me: 31, 6' 175lbs. Skiing since I was 4. Used to ski hard, fast, looking to air anything and everything... recovering from a major injury so took it extremely easy this season and only started skiing in late Feb and ramped up to 75% near the end. Home mountain is Silverton these days, spent a few years living the LCC dream, backcountry ski 50%+ of my days, but love ripping chairlifts. I am not the most technically solid skier, and have had my skiing style described as "slashy" by a few different people.

Favorite skis: 186cm Rossignol Sickle, 184cm ON3P Aysm BG, 189cm Steeple 102s (RIP), 192 M-Free 108s, 186cm HALS Renegade
Least favorite skis: 182cm Black Crow Camox Freebird (just so meh), 188cm BC Corvus (flat camber version, though this might have been the Shift's that kept pre-releasing before I set them correctly).

Also, this is mostly going to be a comparison to the Sickle... since I know a few others here have bought or are considering the FR110 out of a love for that ski. I was introduced to the magic of the Sickle a few years ago and ever since finding a minty pair on ebay have 130+ hard days on them. There is something amazing about a ski that can do anything and everything as long as the snow is "soft." Slash, pivot, slarve, feel stable in runouts and crush chunder when necessary. Damp, but poppy... no matter the conditions you can count on the Sickle being up to the task. These skis changed the way I looked at the mountain, looking for little airs, finding fun lines through steep trees, doubling moguls... the mountain is a playground with a ski like this. My biggest complaints about the Sickle were the lower top end speed, how short the "186" felt (183cm actual length), mediocre performance in untracked and dogshit construction (outside of the magic core/rubber).

The FR110 has been on my radar since the very beginning of HL skis. Marshal teased them as a Sickle heir apparent and I put my pre-order in during the first go. My hope for this ski was similar to the Sickle with a little more top end, little more slashness, slightly better pow performance and waaaay better construction. The FR110 has provided all of that and more. From my first few turns it felt like I had owned this ski my whole life.

Groomers: Groomed terrain isn't really the point of this ski, but considering my recovery I spent more time on them here than elsewhere. I was pleasantly surprised by how eager they were to carve turns of all sizes on soft piste. Even with a sharp edge the Sickle was mostly meh on that kind of terrain, happier to run bases flat and slide than carve... the FR encouraged me to lay it on edge more than I would have expected. As long as I keep the edges sharp I expect these to be a lot of fun for those moments between the real skiing.

Pow: So easy! I only had two pow runs at Silverton averaging 6-12" depending on how the wind had blown and was really psyched on their performance. The combination of a bit of taper and the long rocker makes for a wonderful pow experience. I didn't push it hard down the fall line on these two runs, but could see how this ski would welcome it when I am physically ready. These aren't the fall line chargers that some of the other HL skis are, and that is okay. They want to find the pillows to pop and deeper pockets to slash, if you stay balanced and on the balls of you feet the skis disappear under you. I won't probably grab these for days with +12" of fresh often, but think it will be okay when I do.

Packed Pow: This is what this ski is made for. Seek and destroy the soft stuff. Slash, slarve, pivot... anything is possible and it's all about finding the most playful way down. Grinding down soft bumps, airing off stumps, finding the trickiest way through a tight choke, turns of every size and shape... all of it came easy. The FR construction is magic when the snow is cut up slightly and the densities between scrapped off and denser piles of snow vary. I did not have the strength this season to really push this ski on this kind of day, but I could feel it begging me to. In comparison to the Sickle, this ski is going to make these kind of conditions waaay more fun imo.

Hardpack: Eh. Unsurprisingly this ski is not the best on true firm conditions. The short effective edge when running base flat combined with the lack of suspension was much more noticeable with this ski than with the Sickle. Maybe I am not as strong as I was pre-injury but skiing with speed through coral reef was jarring to say the least. On firm groomers they held up well with the excellent tune, but bases flat was tougher than when I brought the Sickles out on closing day and tried them in similar conditions. I think considering how good these are in the conditions they are intended for... I will live with the drawbacks.

Corn/Slush: In proper corn they are nothing short of amazing. I was lucky enough to get about 5k of excellent corn on Silverton closing day and wouldn't have preferred any other ski. All the same reasons that make them good at packed pow make them excellent in spring. In slush the combination of flex and rocker is magic. They are so composed at speed but can shut it down at the flick of you ankles.

Steeps: I didn't really get to challenge myself in steep terrain coming back from my injury... but as long as you keep these things on edge they feel very composed, super easy to jump turn too. I'll probably update this post once I get some more time on them next year in steeper, varied terrain.

Conclusion... these things rip and will likely see 60%+ of my chairlift duties moving forward! I see them as a slightly more soft snow orientated Sickle, with more top end chops. If you like a progressively mounted ski, want to slash, pop and play all the way down the mountain look no further. If you want to be a little bit more locked in, the R version is going to be rad too. Bravo to Marshal and the HL team for coming up with a ski that I feel was created personally for me lol. I'd post pics but I am still too stupid to get tapatalk or whatever.

^couldnt have said it better myself. 100% echo this

Out of curiosity, what’re your main low tide and pow skis? Working on creating a 3 ski quiver with this as the middle ski. I think pow ski will be Jeff 118 but can’t get the low tide ski figured out. Tried dw104 this year and didn’t love it


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Ya that’s a good FR110 review.

Once I got my FR 110’s base tuned (thx Marshal!) they were so good that they were pretty much all I skied at the end of the season when we had some fresh.

So stoked that I ordered R120’s for next fall.

For a three ski inbounds quiver, ya the FR 110 is a good middle ski, I can see me having this for inbounds:

HL R120
HL FR110
Line Optic 104

Which means I can see selling my Line Optic 114 and BC Anima as I’ll likely pass them over for the FR 110 or R120 most days I’m sure.

KC


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FWIW, out of pure speculation, I'll be selling most my skis, including my M102, only keeping my Renegades and R110. Probably gonna get an RC85 for a firm snow ski.

I might do a partial quiver dump after skiing mostly HL skis this season (mostly 186 R110).

This would work for me:

R87
R110
R120ST

But I won't get down to just three skis.

Great write up Smiley

you are much better at articulating your thoughts on these skis than I. I think you’re spot on, they(fr110)to me are an improved original Devastator(never skied the sickle much but did spend a season on the scimitar). They float much better(devs were bottom feeders) but still retain the crud smooshing abilities due to the weight and mass. As long as it’s soft out(read: not bullit proof) they are a great all mountain/do everything ski. I’ve not skied the R110 but for me the FR profile is perfect for how I ski. Great skis

Heard mention of adjustment in technique to ski the matched radius camber aspect of the FR110’s, or 110’s in general.

Would any of you consider describing that adjustment in this thread?


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Heard mention of adjustment in technique to ski the matched radius camber aspect of the FR110’s, or 110’s in general.

Would any of you consider describing that adjustment in this thread?


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I've only got experience with the FR110, which is more or less matched sidecut to reverse camber.

My key takeaway from these skis is that neutral is a great place to be. Which is more or less how we designed them to begin with. I think staying forward, pressuring the tips, is a very good recipe for over torquing the sidecut, and the ski overall is better matched to a dalbello lupo, compared to a genuine faux race boot. All in the forward lean, you see.

Once you get over that crap, and start driving from your ankles, you'll have a very good time. They can be ON if you want them to, but they're better as DD soft snow comrades. If you want ON all the time, get FL105s or 113s. In that order.

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I've only got experience with the FR110, which is more or less matched sidecut to reverse camber.

My key takeaway from these skis is that neutral is a great place to be. Which is more or less how we designed them to begin with. I think staying forward, pressuring the tips, is a very good recipe for over torquing the sidecut, and the ski overall is better matched to a dalbello lupo, compared to a genuine faux race boot. All in the forward lean, you see.

Once you get over that crap, and start driving from your ankles, you'll have a very good time. They can be ON if you want them to, but they're better as DD soft snow comrades. If you want ON all the time, get FL105s or 113s. In that order.

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Is that something that you think is sidecut to rocker profile matched specific?

I ask because I was skiing my fully rockered bmt 122 today (mounted around -8 or -9) and I'm not sure if they are similarly matched but they kind of want to be driven in the shovel even at +1cm from recommended.

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I was driving the 19Xcm FR110s when I was skiing them. I A/Bed them with 191 Katana 108s thanks to Bry, and kept the same stance. I put 5 hard runs on FR110s all through blacks or doubles at speed, but take my words with a grain of salt cuz 5 runs. I felt a decent amount of tail on the FR110s while driving them, but that didn't stop me from having an absolute blast. I think I preferred them to Katana 108s, but both are great skis.

The tails on the FR110 felt more noticeable more often than 3D radius on Katana 108s, but I'd prefer FR110s for predictability. I wannnnt

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Is that something that you think is sidecut to rocker profile matched specific?

I ask because I was skiing my fully rockered bmt 122 today (mounted around -8 or -9) and I'm not sure if they are similarly matched but they kind of want to be driven in the shovel even at +1cm from recommended.

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Yeah, or at least in this case, a tighter sidecut radius (<24mR) with a matched reverse camber. Now, of course you can drive them, but feathering shin input is more rewarding, imo, and again, throwing too much weight forward is a pretty surefire way of engaging the front part of the sidecut (and the corresponding reverse camber) into an oversteer situation. Super responsive skis, and requires a bit more finesse to ski really fast than say the FL105.

Now, there are a few confounding variables here:
Mount point
Forward lean
Skier weight

Mine are mounted at -7.5/-8 - can't quite recall.
They're more accepting of a classic forward driving stance when I'm in Lupos(more upright), compared to skiing in Raptors (more racelike). I weigh 92kg, so just north of 200lbs.

Helpful or not?

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One super fun thing I found was steep chute skiing in smooth snow. This was on the Headwaters at Big Sky. I got to thinking about how they are already bent into the shape a normal ski would be when it was fully engaged in a carve. I just stood straight up and tipped them a bit side to side while arcing nice carves down the chute with no effort. Didn’t need to worry about them hooking up with the reverse camber. It was really cool, especially after watching people make exhausting looking jump turns to slides down the same line.

I adjusted my boots to have as little forward lean as possible which I thought helped.

As has been said a lot of times these are a ridiculous amount of fun in soft trees. Lightning fast turns, double a few moguls, shut it down instantly. Def found myself skiing more of this style terrain than I had in the past just because it was so awesome.

They were the ultimate ski when I hit an 8 inch day at Alta(1.5 inches of water). So awesome in the tight spine lines in eagles nest and under supreme chair. I did switch to a different pair of skis for the last hour for making huge turns down Alf’s. That isn’t so much their sweet spot.

I spent too much time skiing them in hard snow and chopped up hard crud. They are ass in these conditions-don’t bother. The lack of camber just transfers all the bumps straight to you body. Painful. I apparently forgot the soft snow part of soft snow gymkhana. Ha.


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Yeah, or at least in this case, a tighter sidecut radius (<24mR) with a matched reverse camber. Now, of course you can drive them, but feathering shin input is more rewarding, imo, and again, throwing too much weight forward is a pretty surefire way of engaging the front part of the sidecut (and the corresponding reverse camber) into an oversteer situation. Super responsive skis, and requires a bit more finesse to ski really fast than say the FL105.

Now, there are a few confounding variables here:
Mount point
Forward lean
Skier weight

Mine are mounted at -7.5/-8 - can't quite recall.
They're more accepting of a classic forward driving stance when I'm in Lupos(more upright), compared to skiing in Raptors (more racelike). I weigh 92kg, so just north of 200lbs.

Helpful or not?

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I think what you're saying makes sense, but I'm still wondering if it's a matched sidecut to rocker profile thing.

It could also be the realively less tip and tal taper in the FR where the bmt 122 has quite a bit of taper, and could also be the less pintail in the FR vs the BMT.

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I think what you're saying makes sense, but I'm still wondering if it's a matched sidecut to rocker profile thing.

It could also be the realively less tip and tal taper in the FR where the bmt 122 has quite a bit of taper, and could also be the less pintail in the FR vs the BMT.

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The reverse camber of the BMT122 is pretty low rise/gradual, right? If so, that would make a lot of sense the way you describe them wanting to be driven, even though you're pretty far forward on them.

And yes, the tapers of those are about double, both tip and tail, compared to the 110, but I think it's more of a pintail thing, as you suggest- the BMTs are, at least on paper (sorry, haven't skied them, unfortunately) some of the most directional and pinned skis out there, at least talking in terms of the tip/tail width relationship, which usually, ime, isn't very conducive to very upright stance skiing. Depends a bit on where the sidecut center/rec mount is, though.

Cheers,
A

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Haven’t skied the 110s yet, but have plenty of time on “matched” camber skis. I think it’s more to do with degree of full reverse and/or tips and tails not engaging until you’re in 3d snow or fully angulated than any particular magic in matching radii and camber… but anyways.

My technique adjustment was mostly adopting more of an always stacked attitude and using far less hip/waist articulation, especially at the beginning and end of a turn. Once the turn/edge is locked in I can separate upper body and lower body, but otherwise I had better experiences staying a little more compact with my skis more under my upper body. Skis with more radius than camber can be engaged and loaded up with hips down only, but that’s something I couldn’t do confidently or dynamically with Rens et al. It was a different and super fun thing that those called for.

Also, steering inputs varied quite a bit. Stronger steering but less of it, if that makes sense. They go where you point and if you don’t point they’re more apt to go wherever.

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^couldnt have said it better myself. 100% echo this

Out of curiosity, what’re your main low tide and pow skis? Working on creating a 3 ski quiver with this as the middle ski. I think pow ski will be Jeff 118 but can’t get the low tide ski figured out. Tried dw104 this year and didn’t love it


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I really like the idea of the three ski quiver. That is how I am trying to build mine out at least. Three ski BC quiver, three ski inbounds... with one or two weirdos in reserve. In reality, my quiver looks more like n+1 without a lot of sense lol.

I don't have a low tide DD right now but am pondering what ski to put in that place. I really liked the MFree 108 (was my DD two seasons ago) and was thinking MFree 99 to replicate that decent edge hold when you need it, loose when you need it, but chargy-lite feeling the 108 does so well, but am not convinced the 99 is the right choice. What HL ski fits that bill ~90 underfoot? All the RC skis are probably too much for me personally and I don't love -10 mount points.

My pow ski is the 184cm Aysm BG. I love this ski for the kind of pow skiing we do mid winter in Silverton. Lots of tight trees and weird chokes, but occasionally big wide open alpine charging. This ski handles all of that really well. I haven't been on it in over a year so we will see how I like it next year once I can A&B it vs the FR100. I picked up one of the BC Swallowtail 120s this year, but never had a chance to mount it unfortunately. That ski looked dialed. If I like it as much as I think I will for the backcountry, I have a feeling the BGs will be on their way out for a FR120 instead.

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I really like the idea of the three ski quiver. That is how I am trying to build mine out at least. Three ski BC quiver, three ski inbounds... with one or two weirdos in reserve. In reality, my quiver looks more like n+1 without a lot of sense lol.

I don't have a low tide DD right now but am pondering what ski to put in that place. I really liked the MFree 108 (was my DD two seasons ago) and was thinking MFree 99 to replicate that decent edge hold when you need it, loose when you need it, but chargy-lite feeling the 108 does so well, but am not convinced the 99 is the right choice. What HL ski fits that bill ~90 underfoot? All the RC skis are probably too much for me personally and I don't love -10 mount points.

My pow ski is the 184cm Aysm BG. I love this ski for the kind of pow skiing we do mid winter in Silverton. Lots of tight trees and weird chokes, but occasionally big wide open alpine charging. This ski handles all of that really well. I haven't been on it in over a year so we will see how I like it next year once I can A&B it vs the FR100. I picked up one of the BC Swallowtail 120s this year, but never had a chance to mount it unfortunately. That ski looked dialed. If I like it as much as I think I will for the backcountry, I have a feeling the BGs will be on their way out for a FR120 instead.

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The reverse camber of the BMT122 is pretty low rise/gradual, right? If so, that would make a lot of sense the way you describe them wanting to be driven, even though you're pretty far forward on them.

And yes, the tapers of those are about double, both tip and tail, compared to the 110, but I think it's more of a pintail thing, as you suggest- the BMTs are, at least on paper (sorry, haven't skied them, unfortunately) some of the most directional and pinned skis out there, at least talking in terms of the tip/tail width relationship, which usually, ime, isn't very conducive to very upright stance skiing. Depends a bit on where the sidecut center/rec mount is, though.

Cheers,
A

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Actually the rocker profile on the 122 is a departure from the low-slung siblings of other BMTs and they have a pretty pronounced rocker profile. From what I've seen they actually look somewhat similar to the FR110 but I haven't seen those in person so I'm not sure.

I'll try to remember to post a pic some time.

Edit: added a pic.

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Hah, cool. That's actually more intune with the R family of profiles (r120/110/105), so the fr will have more splay in both ends.

R105s on the left, FR110s on the right.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...bf36d4dee3.jpg

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Originally Posted by hoarhey

Heard mention of adjustment in technique to ski the matched radius camber aspect of the FR110’s, or 110’s in general.

Would any of you consider describing that adjustment in this thread?


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All my other skis are -10 to -12 mounts and when I got into steep (>40*) runs I was struggling with feeling like I was going over the handle bars. The advice Marshal shared with me was: try opening your feet just like 4” instead of “thinking” about stance and weighting and such. I find that just opening up a little gets the weighting right and gives the right stance naturally.

For carving I found that leaning hard into my boots to pressure the tips before tipping the ski over didn’t really work on this ski like it does more traditional skis. I had to really focus on early edging and rolling my feet over. Especially focusing on leading with the inside leg pinky toe. This actually made me a better skier on all my other skis too.

Anyone have a comparison of these versus the Moment Meridian?

I love the Meridian but I think that adding some weight to it could make it even better. I picked up the Line BO104 this year and that was quite a hefty ski, but I also really liked it because it smoothed everything out.

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Originally Posted by meepmoop24

Anyone have a comparison of these versus the Moment Meridian?

I love the Meridian but I think that adding some weight to it could make it even better. I picked up the Line BO104 this year and that was quite a hefty ski, but I also really liked it because it smoothed everything out.

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A touch less quick but much more damp. I think it’s got a touch better edge hold as well.

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Originally Posted by SkiJitsu

The advice Marshal shared with me was: try opening your feet just like 4” instead of “thinking” about stance and weighting and such. I find that just opening up a little gets the weighting right and gives the right stance naturally.

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Really glad to hear that tip helped unlock them for you!!!

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Originally Posted by K1mJ0ngTr1ll

A touch less quick but much more damp. I think it’s got a touch better edge hold as well.

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Would the 186 FR110 be about equivalent to the 187 Meridian?

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Originally Posted by meepmoop24

Would the 186 FR110 be about equivalent to the 187 Meridian?

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In what way?

Length wise, yes, they are about the same in a tape pull.

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Originally Posted by Marshal Olson

Really glad to hear that tip helped unlock them for you!!!

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What does "opening your feet" mean? [emoji28]