SkiLogik’s Adrenaline is a hard charger with a soft heart.  A sidecut this shallow in an all-mountain ski hasn’t been seen since Monica Lewinski was in the headlines.   This straight a ski should send the Adrenaline jockey on a headlong lunge to the base lodge, but the Adrenaline is supple enough along its length to carve out round, medium-radius turns on demand.

If the Adrenaline could write its own prescription, it would ask for liberal doses of powder (who wouldn’t?), a rider with a fighter pilot’s taste for speed and world peace.  It will turn at low speeds if you insist, but it’s like asking Bode Miller if he wouldn’t mind demonstrating a snowplow turn for the rest of the class. It prefers to go fast, stivot (a half-drift, half-carve hybrid turn) through the top of the turn, blast through the middle, skip the next two turns just for grins, then haul butt to the bottom, not of the turn, but of the mountain.

If this doesn’t sound much like a Finesse ski, the Adrenaline isn’t your typical ride.   It’s actually easy to guide as long as you don’t ask it to stray too far from the fall line.  The Adrenaline expects you to take it off-trail and gradually accelerate until you and the mountain are one.