Buyers Remorse........

[gh444]

so i just bought a pair of Armada ANTs (last years) for a 100 bucks more. now i just have to make a decision on which is going back. one pair has to go back so i can add a pow only ski....right? (please tell me i have to)

-aaron

[upallnight]

so i just bought a pair of Armada ANTs (last years) for a 100 bucks more. now i just have to make a decision on which is going back. one pair has to go back so i can add a pow only ski....right? (please tell me i have to)

-aaron

if you're gonna be living in mammoth (or any mountain town), you surely need multiple pow skis. what if your mood changes from one day to the next? you need the quiver to cover those possibilites.

also, mammoth is pretty much a suburb of LA, and anyone knows in LA that pow skis are like monster SUVs... you can't just have *one*..

(j/k, y'all)

I think you're asking the wrong group. I have a place in my quiver for Bros, SVs, Spats, Lotus 138s, 120s, Gotamas, yadda yadda...

[PeachesN'Cream]

i'm a little bigger than you 6'3" and 230lbs. i have skied the pistol for a few years and then got some ANTs last season as my one and only ski.

i had a hard time with my ANTs last season. it was my first at alpental — a core little mountain with all sorts of technical lines and tight features. i never felt really balanced or dialed in. eventually i got to know the ANTs a bit better, but still never felt comfy on them. then i blew my knee.

over the summer two pair of the new seths showed up thanks to a K2 warranty and i'm stoked to be back on them. easier to ski in tight spots and way softer then the ANTs — it'll be perfect for alpental and perfect for my new knee.

this is about you and skiing mammoth tho. i think the ANT would rip down there in all the open space. when the ANTs get up to speed they are stable and damp. they mob powder and bust through chop and mank. on groomed they turn like a wide super G ski. you can totally mach and they will stay solid and damp. what they won't do is turn very quick or be all that versitile. gromers are only reasonable if you are hauling, otherwise you gotta scuff your turns.

the seth will be much more fun and versitile on the whole hill, but it won't hunker down at high speeds like the ANT will. you can still mach on them but the tips will flop around and you might feel kinda sketchy. also groomers will be fun on the seth when you are between storms. you could take em into the park and be okay as well. not the case with the ANT.

so there is my 2¢. really you gotta think about what you want to do with the ski and if you are willing to sacrafice having something a little more versitile but a little less stable for something that will kill it when hauling ass but not so fun when there isn't fresh.

good luck - flow

[gh444]

flow-

where do you suggest i mount the ANTs? Its been since my 10exs that i've been on a ski this long so i'm thinking about mounting a bit forward to keep the tips more manageable in tight spots.

alpental is a great mountain. i love stuff like that mountain has to offer. you might really love a 183 sugar daddy (or as i did, a teledaddy) on that mountain. wide underfoot, little sidecut, pretty stiff and nice for manuevering techy steeps. but it sounds like you're dialed so i'll shut up......


-aaron

[PeachesN'Cream]

hummm i'd say mount 9cm back of core center. the line that comes on the ANT is at 7 back of core and i think that was too forward. the tip is pretty stiff and at 7 back it was diving more than i liked. unless you were on somethign really steep deep snow was more a pain than fun — and thats just not right.

hit up the search function. we talked about this a bunch last year. i believe vicious mounted his at 9 back and even thought of going further. at 7 back there was still a bunch of tail.

you will be stoked on the ANT at mammoth. good luck and let us know where you end up drilling em and how they work out for ya.

[midget]

Armada ANT's possibly. Ask BC-FLOW about those.

ha, edit cause i failed to read the 2 posts above mine.