by jbotti » Wed Aug 15, 2018 1:34 pm
All skis lose their camber over time with age and use. The less they get bent the longer it takes for them to lose their camber. Most skiers are not or are hardly bending their skis in powder but good skiers can and do bend their skis in powder (and Reilly would be at the top of that list). But its not as much (the amount and frequency of ski bending) in a day of pow skiing as one would get arcing turns on hard snow. So two things, first most people aren't using their pow skis all that often because no one is that blessed (to get some crazy number of pow days in a year). So based on this a pow ski can last 4-5x longer than a hard snow ski. The other thing is that many pow skis today have little, no or reverse camber so for many of these skis there either isn't any camber to lose or its so little to begin with it doesn't matter. And lastly some like their fully cambered pow skis better when they lose a little camber. You don't need edge hold in pow and edge hold is what you lose when lose camber. So if its a truly a dedicated pow ski, many like them better with a little less camber or can't tell the difference.
I think that covers the bulk of the subject.
Balance: Essential in skiing and in life!