Firebird SRC

Beneath the SRC’s burly Marker WC Piston Plate is an edge-to-edge layer of bi-directional carbon Blizzard calls C-Armor that turbo charges the ski’s power and stability through the middle of the turn. To augment acceleration across the fall line, two vertical carbon laminates, dubbed C-Spine, trisect the core from end to end. Working in unison with the Firebird SRC’s traditionally cambered baseline, C-Spine generates propulsive rebound that translates the dissipating energy of one turn into an aggressive entry into the next. “It’s very quick edge to edge” confirms one of the California Ski Company crew.

2016 Blizzard

As we open the 2016 season, Blizzard is firing on all cylinders.  They have a star product in every category, the ideal situation every brand hopes to forge for itself. The company is making some of the finest skis in the world, period. Ruminating upon Blizzard’s...

Blizzard 2016 Brand Profile

Blizzard’s fortunes began to turn around several years ago when the Tecnica Group acquired the brand and factory in Mittersill, Austria, and pumped a few million euros into an overhaul. It’s often the case in the world of industry that he who builds the last factory...

Spur

The Spur is an interesting lesson in the differences between rockered and twin-tipped skis.  As soon as a manufacturer turns up the tail, they tend to turn up the butter-factor, so the ski interprets tipping as an urge for a low-angle skid instead of an instruction to...

Bodacious

The new Bodacious is totally different from last year’s, and yet it isn’t.  The new tip and tail taper, the carbon weave reinforcements, the elimination of metal laminates, all contribute to a ski that’s lighter and easier to coax on edge. But the new Bodacious has to...