Specialty ski shops are part of the connective tissue of our sport. More than just a commercial nexus, specialty shops provide vital educational and social services for the skier community. They hold the keys to every skier’s skills development, for specialty...
Because Non-FIS Race skis aren’t often in a rep’s demo inventory, I take special pains to collect as many as I can and corral them at Footloose, near the base of Mammoth Mountain. I also recruit ex-racers like Jim Schaffner of Start Haus and Theron Lee of Bobo’s, both...
Technical skis are invariably high performance, hard-snow carving models that have race ski properties and similar dimensions yet aren’t actually intended as gate skis but as hard snow toys for people who probably had race training in the misty past. In today’s...
