When Rossignol elected to make its core Experience line more homogeneous by sharing a common technology, it entailed making the flagship model, formerly the burly Experience 100 HD, more like the step-down second fiddle, the Experience 88 HD. Of all the new Experiences, the 94 Ti is the least like its immediate ancestor. The new line’s off-trail orientation comes at the sacrifice of hard-snow mastery, and while the 94Ti is perforce a bit quicker on and off the edge, it lacks the imperturbability of the E100. To put it succinctly, the Experience 100 HD was a pure Power ski; the Experience 94 Ti is emphatically a Finesse model.

Left to its own devices, the Experience 94 Ti will drift into a long, lazy GS turn that puts the “ooze” in cruising. It likes its snow soft and relatively smooth and doesn’t require a high edge angle to feel fulfilled. The advanced skier who’s into low-stress skiing will find the Experience 94 Ti to be on the same wavelength.