90EIGHT

How the 90EIGHT behaves depends on how you ski it. At low edge angles it wants to drift and needs some snow under its prow to keep it calm. This drift-ability comes in handy off-trail, but it makes for uninspiring handling on hard snow. To shift out of drift, inject...

Aura

If you’re fortunate enough to catch first tracks, it almost doesn’t matter which All-Mountain West model you’re on. They all offer approximately the same flotation, and fresh snow is so consistent that skis sustain relatively little shock.

It’s on runs 2 through 20 that you’ll be particularly pleased you’re on an Aura. Cut-up snow is utter bliss if you ski it right and pure hell if you don’t. Whether you spend the day upright and smiling or upside down looking for your goggles depends a great deal on the tool you use.

90EIGHT W

The 3D.Ridge design puts any ski it’s applied to on a crash diet, making this svelte construction better adapted to men than women. With only a carbon stringer for reinforcement – compared to two sheets of Titanal in sister ski Aura – and a wafer-thin core thickness...

100EIGHT

The 100EIGHT is so good at leveling the unruly rubble that remains two days after a storm that a fleet of them could be used as an off-trail grooming machine. They love to be pushed into a wall of snow where their fully rockered, U-shaped baseline can feel complete...