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Fat is beautiful. Especially when it’s underfoot in the form of the Black Diamond Megawatt, the most obscenely fun toy to hit snow sports since the inner tube. If you’re not used to skiing boards as wide as your fathers’ circa 1957 waterskis, the replica Rolex 116200-WRO Men's watch flat-camber Megawatt (sidecut:153125130; length: 188 cm only), which will debut this fall, can be intimidating. But spend a day getting to know them in the Aspen backcountry—or just a few minutes on virtually any slope covered with snow—and your fears will dissolve like melting snow.After recovering from my initial terror at the thought of carving turns with a ski that’s almost 20 cm longer and twice as wide as my mere-mortal telly skis, my only problem with the Megawatt was trying to muscle my way into the lineup.
