The Spur is an interesting lesson in the differences between rockered and twin-tipped skis.  As soon as a manufacturer turns up the tail, they tend to turn up the butter-factor, so the ski interprets tipping as an urge for a low-angle skid instead of an instruction to latch onto a low-angle edge.  The Spur, while impressively rockered, still tries to hold onto whatever small percentage of its gargantuan width one can manage to insert in a firm snow surface.

This makes the time spent on cat tracks and exit lines far less nerve-wracking than they can be on other skis of this girth.  The Spur doesn’t need a high edge angle to be contorted into turning, which is a big deal when a ski is nearly 5 inches across at its narrowest point.  Skis of such dimensions normally carve with the aptitude that tortoises show for modern dance, but the Spur does its best to keep its host happy between powder runs, which, of course, are ecstasy.