The Santa Ana illustrates an interesting point:  if a wide-waisted ski has a short meter-radius measurement, which dimension dominates behavior?  As your Editor at realskiers has contended for 20 years, the width dictates response as it doesn’t matter what the math says about turn shape if you can’t tip the ski.

Getting back to specifics, the Santa Ana is first and foremost a powder ski.  It shares the shape of the men’s Enforcer, so it has plenty of surface area to keep the fairer sex afloat.  Utterly unlike the Enforcer, however, is what’s inside those dimensions, namely balsa wood with some carbon reinforcement.  So while the Enforcer is for the accomplished only, the Santa Ana accepts all applicants.

Galena Gleason of Telluride’s The Boot Doctors loved its Finesse properties, giving the Santa Ana a rhetorical high-five: “Go Nordica! You have made a ski that anyone can ski.  Great ladies ski – easy breezy.  Intermediates to experts will ♥.”