was made not too long ago . Still good job comrade . <| sep |> I guess I misread the report , the guy says they were either gold or orange , seeing as this press is new I doubt it ' s the latter I ' ll field test this weekend . <| sep |> Slow day at work , so yeah , no problem on the research . It was fun talking to the people at the store , but even they got the fact that I thought they were a bit overpriced from my tone , I think . Unfortunately , I am probably a bad person to ask about the dedicated powder ski question because I only own one pair or skis , which are the ones I described . I find them fine even on groomers , sure there is little chatter when hitting corduroy at speed , but for the freedom to duck off an edge any time I like , I am happy to just ski on what I got . More to the point , If you ' re gonna be guiding , you almost definitely want the dedicated powder ski for here . Remember , a lot of the terrain is pretty mellow but filled with deep fluffy stuff and the more you can float the better , especially if you ' re gonna skin in . I mean , I think those Bibby ' s look the business and the older model was something I considered when I bought my current skis though I am slightly tallerheavier than you are . I didn ' t even ask where in Japan you ' re gonna be , I automatically assume Hokkaido , but that could be my bad . Of course there is gonna be piste around and if you wanna shred it hard then get something narrower underfoot as well , if you ' re budget stretches that far . If it were me I would blow my budget on the wide end spectrum and maybe even just pick up something secondhand for bombing groomers . Edit I hadn ' t seen the Deathwish before you mentioned them , but they sound superfun . My point about guiding on fat skis perhaps didn ' t make sense on a reread . What I meant was there is not much genuine alpine top of a massive icy mountain skiing here , more soft pillowy valleys .