Salomon allowed brother brand Atomic to steal the new product headlines for 2016, while they focused their efforts on two areas we at realskiers largely ignore: Frontside system skis made more to match a package-ski price point than to fulfill a performance...
What do you do for an encore after elevating a tiny, exotic brand like touring ski maker Scotty Bob to cult status in the most niche-like niche in skiing? If you’re Dave Mazzerella, you cash out, pack up the Breckenridge kit and move lock-stock-and-barrel-stave to...
What’s old is new again, as Skilogik returns several of our testers’ favorites, including Ullr’s Chariot TT and its sister ski, Goddess TT, to their official catalog. Since Skilogik is in the business of custom manufacturing, these models remained available even when...
Our spider sense tingles when we hear the term “handmade” applied to skis, as the implication is that such slats will receive extraordinary care in manufacture no mass-produced ski can hope to receive. One reason we look sideways at the “handmade” adjective is that...
For 2016, Stöckli has rechristened Stormrider 100 as the Stormrider Motion 100, repositioning the model from a backcountry ski to a made-for-women’s model. Its Titanal topsheet has inlaid polyamide strips in the tip and tail to adapt the torsion to 3-D terrain;...
Völkl didn’t actually invent the notion of quality control, but denizens of our little corner of the universe can be forgiven for thinking so. They have set the standard for base finish for so long, if someone gave a trophy for the best QC they’d have to name it the...
