you very much So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much Fair enough. There are resorts (or parts of resorts) I've visited in Europe where there's at least a 50/50 split if not a tendency towards fatter e.g. Chamonix, Engelberg You know it makes sense. You know it makes sense. cerebralvortex wrote: I was mearly making an observation that there are those who are part of the overwhelming majority in this part of the world at least who complain about a very small minority as if we're taking over the world and threatening their way of life, figuratively speaking. Given the various difficulties of using wide skis mentioned above, these complaints have a tendency to get annoying. That's one side of the coin. The other side are claims that fat skis are brilliant on piste, just as good as a dedicated piste ski, so anyone skiing a narrow ski is an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud. We see both sides of that particular coin frequently on snowHeads, and my perception is that the "narrow ski skiers are old-fashioned" is probably the more common. Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name: Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name: rob@rar wrote: That might well be true. I was simply adding my experience to ensure the debate didn't get polarised by the "pros" and "antis" which is so often the case touchstone issues like ski width.