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Hi, I was cruising through Market Place and came upon these Madshus Panorama M68 (described as 190, so I'm guessing the 192cm) for sale. Mounted with Magnum BC bindings. Asking is $400 Canadian. What's a reasonable price point? Can anyone identify the year of them?
I currently ski 2020/21 Fischer E99 extra light with waxable bases and ez-skin attachment in 200cm with standard NNN/BC.
I'm 6-3 and 195lbs +/-
From what I read here, my skis are too short, but I enjoy the grip at the expense of some glide, and my local trails (St-Donat area of the Laurentians in Quebec) are very narrow and twisty.
I'm curious if the M68 would be a useful addition to my "quiver" for deeper snow conditions as well as ease of downhill turning and control? My current boots are Rossignol X6 (with a customized velcro extension so I can actually cinch the plastic ankle support).
Also how do they climb? The uphill portion of this sport is my strong point (meaning I'm really bad getting down) so I don't want to lose on my strength.
Many thanks,
Sam

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Hello Sam,
I can’t believe you have not had a response. There are a handful of skis that are E-99 class. If you are skiing BC trails you would want a ski in that class. The same goes for the Panorama M-68. It really that simple.
I really prefer the Asnes skis especially in the M-68 class. That is irrelevant to the fact, that you will really enjoy having both types of skis.
I hope that helps, you will really enjoy having both types of skis.
Bob

Coming from an alpine and snowboarding background, in the last couple years I learned nordic and tele on maily europa 99 (e99) and karhu guides (m78). I found that pairing to cover backcountry needs quite well. Even took the Guides to the resort a few times. Scales drag, theyre slow and not the right tool for the job, but send it if thats what you have. A certain well known Japanese fellow skis resort runs on m68s and even m62s. If anything you'll just realize that at some point you will want a resort setup and they're not exactly rare, a used setup could be had for the price of a nice bottle of bourbon

I have added an m68 (epoch)to my collection this year but have yet to use them, but I feel like you could probably develope skills pretty well with them as well. I paid 500 CAD for the epochs but they were mint condition new and came with voile switchback x2, also mint like new. No clue why the PO had x2's on there, they're going to be swapped out for hardwires.

I'm still learning so not in the advising department, but I used a similar quiver and had fun

Thanks for the input guys. I'm going to ponder a little on my needs.