Stöckli already made the best ski in the Frontside genre, the 2022 Laser AR, but the Swiss have a habit of upgrading their models whether they need it or not, so in 2023 they gave the AR a slightly wider waist, a skinnier tip, a wider tail and a new damping system,...
The Montero AX has only been in the Stöckli line for two years, but in a sense, it’s been around forever, for it was built on the bones of the Laser AX, a legendary Frontside powerhouse with legions of fans. The Laser AX, and its stablemate, the Laser AR, were...
If you ever skied a Stöckli Laser AX, an iconic hard-snow ski whose owners fall so deeply in love they tend to ski them everywhere, all the time, then it won’t be hard to imagine the performance profile of the new Montero AS. Stöckli created the Montero family last...
Back in the early 2000’s, when I was ski testing for SKI magazine, it seemed to me that every Stöckli I essayed cut a beeline for the base lodge, like a high-strung Super G that wanted to win every run. To this day, most Stöcklis still have a higher speed ceiling than...
The one condition that separates the best All-Mountain West skis from the merely excellent is crud. It’s the dream of perpetual powder that drives the category – there’s no other reason to have a ski this wide – but the reality is uncut powder is over and done...
