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After quite a lot of searching I'm really attracted to the description of Whitedot's products, but struggling to nail down the exact character of these skis and which would suit better. Basically looking for a good powder ski which is manouverable in tight spaces e.g. trees, but stable enough to crud-bash, and wont be a chore on occasional days spent pistebashing at speed with family etc. Also unsure on sizing (I'm 6ft3 and 81kg). Any help or first hand experience would be awesome, thanks!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hi hollando, as a Whitedot guy I've spent extensive time on both models, happy to talk about them from a "biased" point of view of course 
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189 in the Preacher & 188 in the Director. Look at the 186 Ranger also as it's slight camber underfoot & rockered tip makes a great all mntn ski whereas the Director is a lot more soft snow biased. And if you're a strong skier look at the 195 Ranger Pro.
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Having had another read looks like it probably is between the Ranger and the Preacher. I'm looking to replace my current ski, an Atomic Theory (186cm) with something fatter and more robust, while hopefully retaining some of the manouverability I have found in the Theory. As i can't pick and choose my ski days based on conditions, the director is probably out because of the soft snow bias. What are the main performance differences between the two (I was intrigued by the idea of a 112mm waisted ski that can also tear up hardpack when necessary!), especially with regard to variable snow conditions (powder through to spring overnight ice) and tight spaces (trees, moguls, couloirs)?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'll back spyderjon, with his Ranger suggestion. I'm 6'1", 87Kg and skied 184cm Rangers last week when in Tignes. Great float in powder bowls, trees earliy inthe week, then as it became tracked out and variable, coped with the chopped up stuf, flexed enough for the moguls and stable when we went for a quick blast on firm groomed blacks and wide cruising blues. At 108mm the waist doesnt feel that big, but you do have to work them. I'd try the 184 rather than the 187 unless you are super fit and going to ski hard all day.
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I recently had the same dillemma, and after much research I decided on the preachers. I then spoke to spyderjon, who talked the options through with me, and I changed my mind to the Rangers! Ive had a week on them in variable conditons, and absolutely love them, nimble for their size, great float in the powder, comfortable for piste cruising, and since I went for the carbonlites they are incredibly light (really really light!!). They performed really well on everything with the exception of ice, but your are not going to find a ski that wide that does. Also thought that they are much more maneuverable on moguls than I would have expected, although clearly thats not what they are designed for.
Im a couple inches shorter than you and more like 89kg, went for the 187s, definitely wouldnt advise that you go any shorter. If your a better skier than me (which is likely!) then you might want to consider the 195s.
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hollando, I have Preachers 187 and similar stats to you, and wouldn't want any bigger. I love the skis but they aren't my go to skis for days on the piste with the family.
They are however fantastic in the deep stuff.
I have not tried the directors or rangers, but the rangers sound interesting.
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| jbob wrote: |
| hollando, I have Preachers 187ers, |
Not 189's?
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I have 189 Preachers and am 6 foot and 80kg. They can do pretty much everything off piste and carve nice long turn on piste with a bit of work.
Sometimes they have too much float for my liking but they are really stable at fairly high speed off piste.
Haven't skied the Rangers or Directors so cannot comment on those
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| Touchguru wrote: |
| jbob wrote: |
| hollando, I have Preachers 187ers, |
Not 189's? |
Oops, they are the only skis I have ever been able to carve in powder 
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hollando, there's a few incorrect lengths being quoted above (started by me  ). For your stats/ability you'd require either the 189cm Preacher or the 186cm Ranger & it sounds like you'd easily handle the 195cm Ranger. I can do you a great deal on either but if your budget runs to it then go for the Carbonlite version.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Cheers for all the input everyone, definitely leaning towards the rangers now. Think the carbonlites are beyond my budget unfortunately, given the fact I've been slowly scraping the money together from postgrad student funding...
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