The Storm presides over the Affinity series, the bridge collection that spans the gap between the on-piste Cloud series and the wider-bodied Vantage women’s models. As befits the head of her household, the Storm does the best job of blending the carving traits of the...
As we’ve pointed out in each of the last two seasons, the Affinity Pure is one of the best buys in all of skiing. Like a lot of superlight skis, the Pure can’t cope with blistering speeds and heavy snow can slap it around, but if these boundaries are observed, little...
Atomic created the Affinity Sky to fill a gap in their line between the Pure and the Storm, in the process making a model our testers preferred in some respects to its more established elder siblings. The Sky is essentially the ever-popular Pure with a wood core...
If this category could be said to have a defining purpose, it would be to give skiers the confidence to ski better than they thought they could. Atomic’s Cloud Nine is well equipped for this assignment, for it’s made of equal parts of comfort and control. Its unusual...
The story behind the Smoke Ti is as plain as the nose on Ben Franklin’s face; you’ll save a C-note or so compared to other skis in its class. The Smoke Ti will most often go out the door at $599, and if that doesn’t sound like such a great deal, consider this: the...
