The women’s Big Mountain genre has bedeviled us since we began covering these super-fat models as a separate category six seasons ago. Part of the problem is that skis this wide require some semblance of new snow to be given a fair evaluation, limiting their appeal as...
The women’s Big Mountain field is inextricably entwined with its unisex cousins, as this infinitesimal slice of the market doesn’t consume enough units to merit women-specific spin-offs. Fortunately for all concerned, men’s Big Mountain skis have already been put on a...
Like frontline military service, the Howitzer is not for the meek. While the twin-tipped Howitzer from Skilogik looks as New School as an online university, it succeeds the good, old-fashioned way, with conventional camber underfoot. Two sheets of carbon give it the...
Skilogik’s Powderball isn’t a stab at an all-mountain ski on a big platform; it’s an unadulterated powder slat, period. Fully rockered at tip and tail, the Powderball presents a lot of surface area to the snow yet steers, or smears, as if it were much smaller. The...
The 2016 version of the Stormrider 107 is just new enough to qualify for this modifier, but not too new. A few strips of carbon and polyamide at tip and tail probably do contribute to dampening, weight reduction and torsional reinforcement, but the best news is this...
