“Super quick, almost too quick!” exclaimed Pat from Powder House, indicating that what the Hero Elite ST wants to do it does very, very well. The question is, are you up to it? For the wheelhouse of this slalom are turns that dive in and out of every arc with the...
Like the Völkl Racetiger GS, the Rossignol Hero Elite LT is a muscular ski that follows turning commands with the obedience and precision of a dressage horse. If groomers are your territory and speed is your best friend, the Hero Elite LT Ti belongs in your ski...
The way Bill Kline rhapsodized over the Nordica SLR you’d think he’d discovered the Fountain of Youth. The 63-year old coach for the Wasatch Freestyle program couldn’t believe how easily fall line turns spooled off the edge. Kline’s experience suggests that the SLR...
If you don’t own a mountain with 3,000 nearly vertical feet, you might want to consider another ski. The Nordica Dobermann GSR EVO EDT isn’t even warm at 30mph, and 60mph feels like idling speed. You can point it out of the fall line, but don’t think for a nanosecond...
Perhaps all you need to know about the Rebels i.Speed is that, had the FIS not begun tinkering with dimensional requirements for GS skis in 2006, this would have been Bode Miller’s or Ted Ligety’s or Hermann Maier’s ski. Its appearance here at the bottom of our pile...
