“Go fast or else.” That was the terse advice scrawled, ransom-note style, on the bottom of a Fire Arrow 84 EDT EVO test card. Indeed, it’s impossible to overlook this ski’s insistence on speed. The same technology that allows the 84 EDT to hold an incorruptible edge...
The Cinnamon Girl has changed her dress size since last season – the better to share mold costs with the men’s Fire Arrow 76 CA EVO – but she didn’t suffer a change of heart. The Cinnamon 76 still likes to get after it, finding a high edge almost by itself and using...
The way Bill Kline rhapsodized over the Nordica SLR you’d think he’d discovered the Fountain of Youth. The 63-year old coach for the Wasatch Freestyle program couldn’t believe how easily fall line turns spooled off the edge. Kline’s experience suggests that the SLR...
If you don’t own a mountain with 3,000 nearly vertical feet, you might want to consider another ski. The Nordica Dobermann GSR EVO EDT isn’t even warm at 30mph, and 60mph feels like idling speed. You can point it out of the fall line, but don’t think for a nanosecond...
Someone somewhere is skiing the Supernatural 115 as his everyday ski. That person is certifiably insane. Good luck deflecting the Supernatural 115 out of the fall line on hard snow where it doesn’t have anything to push against. The time it takes it lift the ski to...
