This is a really simple answer. If your route has you traversing slopes greater than 30 degrees or you are skiing under terrain that's connected to slopes greater than 30 degrees (remote trigger) then you should always have avalanche gear and be with a partner. If your route doesn't involve any of ...

To continue.. We had a snow strom with 20 m/sec wind and +20 cm new snow yesterday. E10 road was closed to both directions for a day. We were stuck at our accommodation at Katterjokk. We made a shortish skiing day only on the lower slopes from here but finally on softer snow and even with some visib...

Thanks lilcliffy . I asked Åsnes about Nosi vs. Nosi Xplr. About same stiffness but Xplr has slightly more camber and a different binding plate optimized for Xplor they kindly answered. I would be interested in the thickness of 180 cm Nosi Xplr at the point where the ski is thickiest. lilcliffy if y...

Congrats on your new skis! I am curious where you ended up mounting the bindings? Greetings from Abisko-Riksgränsen area :) Lots of snow here but mostly all possible kinds of hard surfaces from icy concrete to breakable crust at the moment. Anyway we have managed to find some soft snow too and there...

@lilcliffy you are welcome and thank you.

tkarhu yes Svartisen 75 mm + Rotte ST cable it was. It is a balanced combination with Nosi. Stiff enough but not overgeared. The difference to AT skis/gear is big. Our AT skis are on the bigger side (Extrem Fusion Carbon 106). You can (and also need to) ski with a lot of higher speeds with those. T...

@stenu Thank you for posting that excellent diagram from J Skis. That is a more sophisticated diagram than the ones I posted from Voile- the J Skis diagram illustrates the ski in a pressured-flexed shape- indicating the effective edge extending beyond the section of the ski with positive camber- VE...

lilcliffy I have always thought things like for example in this drawing (by J Skis) below. With modern rockered skis the effective edge can be somewhat longer than their running length. Or in some cases a lot longer if you think fully rockered skis. When the ski is leaned to curve, ski’s contact le...

@randoskier yes for sure there are a lot of Xplore users who have experienced zero problems.

I ski mostly in Norway/Sweden/Finland and do not see that. I see a massive explosion of Dynafit AT skiing (topptur in Norwegian) in Norway. Even with global warming there is plenty of skiing in Norway and Sweden, where it gets difficult is down in the valleys and lower altitudes during long distanc...