Helio carbon 10511/5/2023 ABS tail protectors with a skin clip tab to protect your boards from abrasive metal skin clips and ensure your skins stay securely in place as you set the skinner. The Helio isn't all high-speed business, though the early rise tip and tail keep the ski playful and maneuverable in tight chutes and trees, while plenty of traditional camber underfoot delivers solid edge hold when surface conditions turn firm. ![]() Our reviewer Paul Forward has used the Carbon Convert and Helio 105, and found the Helio 105 to handle variable conditions a bit better than the Carbon Convert. Carbon version is bit more expensive, 700 and Recon's price is 570. I have unfortunately not used the Route 105 or Carbon Convert. Helio Carbon weights 176 cm 2.80 kg (6.17 lb) and Helio Recon weights 173 cm 3.1 kg (6 lb 11 oz). Testers felt very comfortable in the Breckenridge backcountry on all types of terrain and snow. Finland has no big mountains and I wouldn't ski any hard stuff anyway. The result is a much more durable, stable, traditional freeride-oriented backcountry ski. ![]() Black Diamond redesigned the carbon fiber layup to improve the dampness and stiffness for a smooth feel, while a torsionally stiff sandwich build with beveled ABS sidewalls keeps things stable when you're able to open up the throttle down wide-open bowls and smooth aprons. Based on the successful Helio line, the Helio Recon series features a slightly heavier pre-preg fiberglass laminate instead of carbon. The Helio gets its lightweight nature from its engineered ultralight balsa and flax core and light-but-stiff carbon fiber layup. ![]() Designed for all-day tours and big ski mountaineering missions, the Helio weighs a feathery six-and-a-bit pounds in a 175cm length, and has a versatile 105mm waist width that will make the most out of whatever powder you can sniff out, without being too unwieldy when you need to ski a bit of wind-jacked snow, neve, or low-elevation refreeze. Lugging a heavy set of skis up the mountain might not be so miserable when conditions are prime and you start climbing right from the road, but when finding soft turns requires long approaches and killer climbs, a superlight ski like the Black Diamond Helio 105 is a near necessity.
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