The 2022 Women’s All-Mountain East Field

The pandemic may have slowed down the amount of model turnover across all categories, but the popularity of the All-Mountain East genre assured that this pivotal genre would see new entrants come hell or high water. Atomic was still able to usher its new Maven 93 C...
2022 Women’s All-Mountain East

2022 Women’s All-Mountain East

For the advanced woman, the All-Mountain East category is most likely the best place for her to hunt for her one-ski quiver.  In our view, the 88mm-93mm waisted ski possesses the optimal surface area and shape to deliver adequate flotation in broken snow without...
2022 Women’s All-Mountain West

2022 Women’s All-Mountain West

In yet another example of our cutting-edge journalism, permit us to point out that men and women are different.  The pertinent manifestation of this principle is that the same width ski that makes an ideal men’s all-terrain tool is a tad too wide to be an everyday...
2022 Women’s Big Mountain

2022 Women’s Big Mountain

There’s only one good reason for a woman to own a Big Mountain ski, and that’s flotation.  It takes at least 8 inches of uncut snow to float someone on a ski, which should give you some idea how often you might need one yourself.  Point being, a women’s Big Mountain...

The Women’s Big Mountain Field

During a worldwide pandemic that upset everyone’s R&D schedule to one degree or another, the relative insignificance of the Women’s Big Mountain genre left it on the sidelines as more essential needs were addressed. The only new model to debut in 2022 is the Kore...

The 2022 Women’s All-Mountain West Field

While Women’s All-Mountain West models will never be as popular as their thinner sisters in the All-Mountain East category, they still turn over at roughly the same pace because almost every Women’s All-Mountain West ski has a sister in the AME ranks to whom its fate...