A predictable and powerful ski with a rockered baseline and tapered extremities to elevate its off-piste expertise, the Powertrack 89 is a significant upgrade over the Outland model it replaced last year. With two sheets of Titanal in its makeup, it shears through...
The Black Pearl is the centerpiece of Blizzard’s all-mountain women’s collection, with a Goldilocks’ waist width that’s not too fat for carving or too skinny for flotation. It’s just right. “So much fun… in everything,” purred Nancy from Footloose. “It felt completely...
The Regulator and Brahma are both Blizzards, but they are Jeckel and Hyde when it comes to their on-hill comportment. The Regulator is a twin-tip that treats every run like it was recess, time to fool around and forget about the classroom and all those boring lessons...
The Brahma isn’t a flashy ski. It doesn’t have any special cutouts or add-ons adorning its surface, nor is it particularly shapely. If you putter along with your feet beneath your hips you may never discover what a powerhouse purrs under its demure exterior. But...
Atomic makes a full array of women’s skis, from skinny and slight to stout in all senses of the term. The Vantage 90 CTi W is of the second sort, a full-bore ripper that lays into the mountain as if it had stolen its boyfriend. The things that make the Vantage 90 CTI...
