Igneous skis, in particular, the FFFs

It really boils down to the fact you need some 138s. Real men ski blue ice with reverse camber reverse sidecut skis. No, in all seriousness, have you checked on the status of the road?

I surprised Kya with a pair of FFF for our anniversary in JH last year. Adam was easy and helpful to work with. Paid a little extra for koa topsheets. Well worth the wait. He LOVES them. I'm sure Kya will add his input.

Ok, I just thought that, for the sake of the collective knowledge, I would mention that it sounds like 200cm is going to be one of the standard offered lengths for the FFF fairly soon.

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Originally Posted by Kenai

I surprised Kya with a pair of FFF for our anniversary in JH last year. Adam was easy and helpful to work with. Paid a little extra for koa topsheets. Well worth the wait. He LOVES them. I'm sure Kya will add his input.

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Wow, Kenai = Keeper.


And adimmen, I haven't checked on the road too recently. I'm getting my wisdom teeth out tomorrow, so I bet I'll be out for a few days, but I'll check on the road just in case you want to know. I'm willing to bet it will be open soon if its not already.

Leroy - maybe consider the Progressive Powder flex profile, instead of the Round Alpine. From what I understand from the catalogue, PP is a softer tip/steadily progressively stiffer down the ski, and Round Alpine is more of an all-mountain, all-thru-the-ski flex.

Since you're looking for that softer tip.

However, dude, you ski MT, snow is soft and light there. I skied 250 RA FFLs there, and found they were fine. Brought same skis to heavy, thick-as-owl-shit PNW gunk, and found they were submarines - I had to keep them up at speed to keep them up at plane. While I think the RA profile made them more useable as everyday kind of skis, I think the PP pro would have been a little better in the PNW.

FWIW, for my plans, I'm going to go the FFF route eventually too - for now though I have Kahunas and Seth Pistols and Pontoons and Sanouks to beat the shit out of, and then I'll go to the FFF/FFL combo. Maybe even debating FFC instead of FFL. I'd probably for 245PP w/swallowtail for the FFFs, and 250RA for the FFL/FFCs.

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Originally Posted by lemon boy

ESPECIALLY with iggys, the wider you go the softer you should get them.

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Originally Posted by marshalolson

leroy, there is aboxolutely NO reason to get an FFF over 240. unless you are a big person that will ONLY be hucking and straightlining big lines. it is just not needed as an everyday fat ski. igneous even in softer flexes are so torsionally stiff compared to other skis that the longitude flex as listed on the list is very decieving (as lemon boy insinuated).

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^^^WORD

Had 2 different pair of FFLs, one in 270 the other in 260, loved them both.
Got a pair of 265 FFFs, they killed me. I thought I could handle them. I couldn't.
Got a pair of 240 FFFs, perfection.
6'2" 215 lbs here.
The 240 flex FFF is $$$.