The Nordica Enforcer 100 won so many best-in-show accolades last season our Realskiers Recommendation could be viewed as faint praise.

Popular models are often re-tested year after year, and the Enforcer 100 proved no exception, as Realskiers testers submitted more than enough cards to reappraise the Enforcer’s talents. Their verdict described a strong, powerful ski that performs well enough on hard snow and exceptionally well in crud, which is all that’s left of powder after 10:00 AM at most major resorts.

The Enforcer’s on edge authority derives from a no nonsense construction – all wood core filling in a metal sandwich – applied to a cambered baseline. It’s the shape of this baseline that’s the Enforcer’s special sauce: the forward contact point is pulled back 25% from the tip and the rear contact retreats 5% along the tail. While the rockered areas are pronounced, they are relatively low-angle so that any act of tipping and pressuring is sufficient to put the extremities back in snow contact. A blunt, low-profile “Hammerhead” shovel design keeps the tip closer to the surface, thereby reducing tip flap on hard snow.

Despite a fairly tight turn radius (16.5m @ 177cm), the Enforcer 100 isn’t particularly inclined towards short turns and would rather charge the fall line than pick its way daintily downhill. Its baseline clearly favors off-trail conditions, but its bombproof construction enables it to remain accurate on hard snow.

The success of the Enforcer inspired the creation of a little brother, the Enforcer 93, which began infiltrating a few shops last spring. While on paper the 93 is simply a slimmer 100, on snow the two models feel different. The 100 seems to take more skill and energy to extract its best behavior, and rewards the more skilled pilot with a better connection at the top of the turn. (The Enforcer 93 is reviewed among our Recommended All-Mountain East models.)