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Blizzard Answer IQ Ski w/ FR 16 Binding

Blizzard Answer IQ Ski w/ FR 16 Binding description

Looking for a backcountry-ready twintip with crust-busting, crud-munching traditional construction? Youre asking for the Blizzard Answer IQ Ski and the FR 16 Binding. The Answer IQ is exactly that: a fat, floaty twin with tons of guts, ready to hike for home-built booters and bound through the pow, but all the while hiding a titanium-reinforced wood core that makes choppy crud feel like a freshly resurfaced freeway. This ski goes anywhere you want to, airing out cliffs and dominating chutes with confidence, then laying down smooth lines on groomers like a lounge singer thanks to vertical-sidewall edge hold. When that gets boring, wellyou can just switch the bombproof FR 16 bindings into touring mode, skin back up, and hit it all switch.

Bottom Line: Blizzard has The Answer for the big-mountain question.

Well, I had a mixed day snow wise on these ski. Everything from a little powder to some chalky edgy stuff to your crusty icy all in one day. These skis suprized me on the harder firm groomers, they handled and dug in better than I thought they would, easy to lay down some nice trenches. In the crud they had no problem. The powder was also very nice and so easy with these, plenty of float for whatever and they seemed very stable when dropping cliffs and charging hard down the mountain. All in all these would make a great one ski quiver. The flex is probably just on the upside of a medium making them fairly forgiving and very snappy and responsive in my opinion. I would definetly get these.

Guys guys guys, to avoid customer disappointment, like this, please consider revising the sales pitch to include the fact that the bindings provided are size SMALL. I just got this package and was thrilled until I realized that the bindings will only fit a nine year olds boot. Now Ive got to hassle with sending all of this back and I really just want to hit the slopes.