Which skis?

It's been eight years since I bought new skis and I haven' skied much since my son was born.
But he's now skiing, so I think I can talk my wife into letting me get new skis.
Trouble is, I've been out of the game so long I'm not sure what works.
I'm 6'3", 220 and an advanced intermediate (I love skiing the Dave Murray downhill at Whistler, but suck at the chopped up black runs on Grouse).
I also have a set of oldish Volkl Explosives with Fritschi Freerides for powder days, but would like something for inbounds at Grouse/Cypress/Seymour.
My options are Rossignol Zenith 10s ($500), Volkl AC20s ($350, but used) or a pair of Fischer Cool Heats ($600).
And I'm a student, so money is a bit of an object.
Any advice?

If money is an object ski on what you've got. Unless you're really pushing it (which you won't be skiing with an 8-year-old), all skis will allow you to do the same thing - slide down the hill with your family.

-m

True, but it's for those times I can get away.
Same reason I have a Stumjumper - don't need it on the UBC trails with Junior, but when I do get a kitchen pass, it's nice not to be on a rigid Huffy.

waste of cash if you need some skinny skis pick up somthing used for 150 bucks. i ski with B3's/freerides with the kids all the time. oh and welcome to 2009 the explosives aren't powder skiis anymore.

so wait you're saying your explosifs/freerides are relatively comparable to a rigid huffy? You have some high standards for an intermediate skier. I ski 179 Public Enemies from 6 years ago and I rip(ish) the whole mountain with them; so I say again, ski what you got - it's more than good enough.

-m

No, I use a set of Rossignol first generation shaped skis (90-89-90 or something extreme like that) for skiing with the kid.
I use the Volkl's for powder, which is now apparently declasse.
Strange how snow has changed so much in the past few years.
Looks like I'll be using the Volkl's on The Cut from here on in.

Your first gen Rossi "shaped" skis sound like they are not cutting it anymore for when you get some free laps to rip the Dave Murray away from the family. The dimensions on the old Rossi skis are not to carving friendly, not much side cut. If these are going to be your carving ripping in-bounds ski you want something with good edge hold and short-ish turn radius.

I work for Movement Skis, you've likely never heard of them, but do some research and you'll see most everyone that skis them loves them. I recommend you jump on a pair of 175 Yaka's. We have some older ones on discount for $338 CAD. Depending on how old your bindings are you might be able to swap them over if they are imdemnified. It's a great groomer ski, has great edge hold due to it's construction, all wood core with two beefy rails of Beech wood that run down either side of the core. It's a fairly stiff ski underfoot, but not so stiff in the tip and tail that it becomes a chore to ski.

Oh and just because the magazine says you must have 120mm + to ski powder doesn't mean old 94mm Exploders don't still kill it.

I wasnt trying to poop on your pow skis. im just saying why not use them for the groomers.

hey shirk, just a heads up, that link doesnt work.

Check again punk :P

Check again punk :P

haha, it must be just for me then…. Cos it still doesnt work, punk ;)

haha, it must be just for me then…. Cos it still doesnt work, punk ;)

My mistake you have quoted is forever frozen in time.

If you click on the link in my original post you should go to the Movement Shopatron page for Yaka.

http://www.shopatron.com/products/productdetail/YAKA/part_number=MO-7000-ASST/1322.0.1.2.840.10238.0.0.0?

If money's an issue, go to Sports Junkies and find something that's shaped and around 180cm. Make sure there's no holes in the base, the edges aren't ground down to nothing or are pulling out of the ski, check that the binding will fit your ski boot without having to be moved and look closely to make sure the topsheet isn't delaminating. Then buy them.