What do you do for an encore after elevating a tiny, exotic brand like touring ski maker Scotty Bob to cult status in the most niche-like niche in skiing?
If you’re Dave Mazzerella, you cash out, pack up the Breckenridge kit and move lock-stock-and-barrel-stave to Hainan Island, a tropical resort sitting in the South China Sea midway between Macau and Viet Nam, itself imbued with cult status and definitely not your grandfather’s ski company setting. There you establish house and home, invest a decade setting up a full-blown, advancing-the-state-of-the-art ski factory and commence building handmade skis that perform at top-tier level and, moreover, are near-collectible works of art. You call the adventure Skilogik.
Who?
If you’ve never heard of Skilogik, let alone blasted about the hill astride one of their more outstanding models (we do like some better than others) or caressed a silky, inlaid-mother-of-pearl Skilogik topskin, no worries; you likely will before long.
Adolescent Skilogik, against daunting odds, has made it this far and appears to be among the faster growing brands in the U.S. It’s not all that difficult to grow at a fevered pace when baseline share is all but immeasurable, but Skilogik shows serious signs of staying power. Company growing pains notwithstanding, and there have been some, Mazz quite simply makes some great skis.
Skilogik first caught our attention in 2010 when we skied the Ullr’s Chariot, which may be the most versatile ski ever to taste bottomless powder or New England ice. Since then, models like the Front Burner, Occam’s Razor, Rave, Iris and Goddess TT versions and the Rock Star have tested extremely well and garnered strong praise from those skiers who have found them out.
And you can order any of them with custom specs and cosmetics.