The Stormrider 102 doesn’t match the usual Big Mountain ski profile. Most skis in this genre are Finesse skis that enter the turn a day late and depend on a smudged swivel to come across the fall line. Despite a shallow sidecut that should be disposed to drift instead...
Overview Our spider sense tingles when we hear the term “handmade” applied to skis, as the implication is that such slats will receive extraordinary care in manufacture no mass-produced ski can hope to receive. One reason we look sideways at the “handmade” qualifier...
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...
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...
The Stormrider 102 doesn’t match the usual Big Mountain ski profile. Most skis in this genre are Finesse skis that enter the turn a day late and depend on a smudged swivel to come across the fall line. Despite a shallow sidecut that should be disposed to drift instead...
