YMMV and the DW has legions of rabid fans, but it just never delivered to the same level as the Bibby for me. If that’s the case I’d rather be on something narrower. DW has always felt more locked in/less loose/like more effort in tight places unless the snow is 2D and firm. I’ve written on this before in this thread, but I essentially decided that the DW’s potentially incrementally better performance on firm snow wasn’t enough to outweigh its noticeably worse performance in pow/crud/soft snow. I’m a bit of an outlier, but I never really found the DW to do anything noticeably better than the Bibby.
I have lots of days on 190 Bibbys and 190 DW. I may go narrower with a Fischer Ranger 94 or Black Crows Camox for better firm snow performance, but the 190 WC 101 and DW 104 are both very tempting. Feel like ski blades which is fun sometimes but not always. I’m literally looking to replace a pair of 180 BC100s that I use as dadskis/old man park skis. I’d be interested to hear more and hopefully soon we can also get comparisons to the DW 104. I did notice they went with the W108's aspen/ash core over aspen/pine with the re-name (again, consolidation, and tbf that core fucks on the fatty and was 100% the right move) and that added ~50-100g to the weight, but i'm convinced anyone skiing a /20 and /22 b2b and not being a nitpick won't notice a significant difference. More freestyle than a Rustler, more like a burly, damper chet. Dimensions mount point radius, they're all the same from the 19/20 PBJ model.
Now? They consolidated the name and length options under wildcat and made the expected transitional improvements to the design, but it's still a contemporary PBJ. Depends on the model? OG was definitely heavier and more planted.
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