Not every Völkl is made for those who graduated at the head of their class in ski school. The Chiara has no pretensions about an elitist pedigree; it’s more than happy to do charity work among skiers who could use some extra tutoring.
Experts should look elsewhere for thrills. (Note the sizes offered: the only expert you’ll find on a 141cm better be doing ballet.) The Chiara is geared down to match the speed range intermediates usually inhabit. It’s as interested in charging into heavy, uneven snow as someone wearing stilts would be. But if you keep her corralled on the gentle groomed slopes that are her comfort zone, the Chiara will make a commoner skier feel like a queen.

