As the 2014/15 season drew to a close, so did the window in which we test the next year’s crop of new skis, affording us a long view of the year just past and a short glimpse into what the immediate future holds for the alpine ski market. If you break down the...
Few skiers are as zealous as Masters and Citizen racers When the editors at realskiers worked in product development for Salomon in the early 1980’s, extensive consumer research led to the identification of three skier archetypes we’ll call Tourists, Players and...
The average American skier buys a new ski every 8 to 10 years. (Please don’t tell Donald Trump we alluded to any American as “average.”) For every gear junkie adding to his or her arsenal every other year there’s someone who, as far as the ski industry is concerned,...
This shot of Austria’s Anna Fenninger captures feminine perfection on skis. Call it gratuitous, but we’ll use any excuse to showcase talent like Anna’s. This week’s pensée isn’t about the four brightest, most talented and photogenic stars in ski racing’s recent...
For as long as skiing has been a sport, skiers have squabbled over the ideal location of the skier on the ski. The emergence in the 1970’s of manufacturer recommended mounting marks did little to settle the argument. For more than a decade there remained two...
