It won't be my only board and I'm not looking for a full-on FWT deck, but riding in the Alps I come across a lot of things in the same day/half day and I just won't pass on a good off-piste if it's on the way. I am super glad with surfy/turny style of the CR, I want to keep that kind of board. Just riding my Sickstick in and around the resort reminded me that it would be lovely if I could have a CR that can handle just a bit more mountain and be a bit more lively. (Which could be a Tur Buteo you mention a lot!)
I wouldn't call the Buteo lively. At least not the way I see it. And at Least not my 162.... maybe the 157. I'd call it stable but with energy. You get plenty back from the turns when you lay it over. Maybe a more experienced rider would call it lively. They describe it as "powerful yet playful". It's more powerful than playful to my level of skill. Maybe there's some liveliness in it but it's sort of pushed back because of how stable it is.
The Pencil plus is lively. The Pencil plus also has a much looser tail which makes it fun for resort riding banks and trees and so on.
What's wrong with riding the Sickstick? If I hadn't bought my Pluv I would probably had gone for the 162 Sickstick... Love the sidecut on the First Call.
Now my de facto quiver is:
Bubo 150 (will maybe upgrade to a larger board when they release one)
Pluv 159
Buteo 162
Pencil plus 164
Bullet Train 160
The Buteo could replace the Bullet Train and the Pencil plus, but the Pencil plus has more taper and is much livelier. So... I will probably end up with these five boards.
My last weekend this season I was going to a small resort that usually has very good snow and nice high alpine birch trees. I took the Bubo and the Pencil plus. It snowed a lot, so there was a lot of snow out in the open. First day I rode mostly trees and stayed on the Bubo. The next day there was so much fresh snow I switched to the Pencil. The Bubo is nice in just about everywhere but I wanted some stability at speed. Super happy I brought the Pencil, because you can go both fast and ride trees with it. Then on corduroy it turns like a dream. Handles chopped up snow on piste ok as long as you get it on edge and it's not skiers moguls.
Is it worth having the Pencil plus for two days a year? Maybe not, but it's still hard getting rid of it.