The widest, and best, of Blizzard’s twin-tipped Freeride collection, the Gunsmoke is the powder board for the grown-up who grew up as a grom on twin tips and who can’t break the habit. Even if you weren’t raised on center-mounted skis with a mullet, you might still...
With almost exactly the same dimensions as the Rossi Super 7, the Automatic 117 shares several other similarities with its French competitor, including a disdain for short turns, but at the end of the day the two skis don’t feel all that alike. That both are in their...
The only athlete’s signature ski in Atomic’s lineup since time immemorial, the Bent Chetler has built a large and passionate fan club. Now they all finally have a reason to get a new one, as last season Chris Bentchetler and Atomic concocted the most significant...
The fattest of the fatties (>113mm) are true specialty sticks, meant for when the snow is so deep even a 108mm won’t float high enough. This reality won’t keep some folks from sporting them every day, but this is lunatic-fringe behavior as hauling a barge around on...
When Atomic first introduced the Magic Powder around 1990, it was a mere curio, a fringe ski for punters in over their heads on a heli trip. Ten years later, the landscape had flipped over so the widest skis were “AK” models made for the guides, not their ducklings....
