Buying alpine ski boots has never been a picnic. It isn’t going to get any easier, at least not in the near term. I’ve just returned from 5 days of intensive on-snow boot evaluation at the MasterFit Boot Test, conducted on the wintery slopes of Bachelor Mountain....
At Realskiers.com, we consider it axiomatic that skiers should entrust boot model selection to a competent boot fitter, rather than trying to negotiate the labyrinth of the current market in hopes of unearthing the magic slipper that will provide the elusive perfect...
If there is a single quality that epitomizes how great skiers ski, it’s fluidity. Fluidity is the application of technical skills to the opportunities the terrain and snow conditions provide. Fluidity is anticipation so precise every arc appears effortless. Fluidity...
Last week on Realskiers.com I wrote about the best all-mountain skis made since that terminology became common usage. This week’s reverie highlights some of the great race skis that served an earlier generation of skiers as their everyday ride. The first race skis...
When asked what sort of ski a prospective buyer is searching for, by far the most common answer is “an all-mountain ski.” After all, doesn’t everyone want a ski that at least purports to do everything reasonably well? Yet all-mountain skis are a relatively new...
