2025 Nordica Enforcer 89

“The biggest problem in the Enforcer family is making a choice of the best one as an overall tool. I’m not sure you want to own multiple Enforcers; however, somewhere in that family is one that will best suit your style.” These are the pithy ruminations of the multi-talented Jim Schaffner, who can count among his many skills that of race coach, so he knows how to make a ski turn both ways. To expand a bit on Schaffner’s counsel, you can’t make a poor choice unless you make the unlikely mistake of getting the 104 when you never leave groomers or opt for the 89 on a heli trip. By the way, this virtual interchangeability within a model family is rare. It’s more common for one shining star to out-perform its siblings, or for the family to be structured around descending price points, with only the top model receiving the optimal construction. While there are some slight adaptations among the new Enforcers, it’s along the lines of optimizing the basic design for a specific footprint, not deleting critical components to meet a perceived market dependency on a lower price. So, what is the skier profile of the prospective partner for an Enforcer 89? We call the genre to which the Enforcer 89 belongs All-Mountain East for a reason: it inherently embodies the traits that are needed to navigate snow that tends to be hard on runs that are often narrow and relatively short. While hard snow surfaces are the norm, if prayers for fresh snow are finally answered, the all-terrain skier wants a ski that can handle it. While the Enforcer 89 can’t match the flotation of its fatter family members, its combination of agility and stability travels very well in the cut-up chunder that powder quickly evolves into. It’s earned its place on the short list of the best all-mountain skis currently available.