Head’s phenomenal success as a racing brand overshadows its less lustrous history as a freeride line, and it’s hard to argue otherwise when one side has household names like Lindsay, Bode, Anna and Ted on its roster. (The old Head Monster series had headline freeride...
The tiny ski industry lacks the financial wherewithal to invest in materials research, but thankfully the aerospace biz shares some similar concerns about ultra-light materials that are super-strong and able to resist unearthly vibrations. Hence Head was able to get...
If the Monster 98 were to submit a personality profile to a dating service, it might read something like this— Background: Mixed race: Mom was a Big Mountain gal; Dad was a Carver. Likes: Soft snow, preferably powder up to the knees. Oh, and going fast; I can’t...
Every ski test card I’ve ever encountered included as its final criterion a catchall bucket such as “Overall Impression,” that tried to capture in one score all the qualities delineated in the previous nine. On a realskiers test card, the one score that says it all is...
Last year we placed the Total Joy among our Power Picks and it still has the chops to hang with that crowd, but more impressive than its puissance is its pussycat ease. The Total Joy is assembled from the lightest materials in the ski-maker’s tool chest, carbon fiber...
