Corvus

The foundational ski that launched Black Crows 10 years ago, the Corvus, remains relevant today for precisely the same properties that made it a sufficient sensation to serve as the petri dish for a holistic Chamonix ski culture brand. Black Crows’ founders, Camille...

Stockli 2016

Our spider sense tingles when we hear the term “handmade” applied to skis, as the implication is that such slats will receive extraordinary care in manufacture no mass-produced ski can hope to receive.  One reason we look sideways at the “handmade” adjective is that...

Vantage X W 80 CTi

Somehow the Vantage X W 80 CTi manages to incorporate a partial laminate of Titanium with a lightweight wood core and top it with Carbon Tank Mesh and it still weighs less than a whisper. Skis this light don’t normally stay connected to hard snow, but as Stephanie...

Speed Zone 12 Ti

The Dynastar Speed Zone 12 Ti is the 2017 incarnation of what was once a popular genre, the cruiser. Not as brutish as a race-ready GS ski, the cruiser nonetheless shares the same interests and terrain preferences. It isn’t ashamed to admit that it hates moguls and anything that looks like them, not so much because it couldn’t find its way around the cursed obstacles if so required, but because anything that slows it down is an unwelcome interruption in its course.

Dynastar 2016

Dynastar When Laurent Boix-Vives acquired the distressed fledgling brand Dynastar, he already had Rossignol in his portfolio. Thus was born a sibling rivalry that persists to this day, with the elder trying to establish an untouchable record and the younger always...