Checking in on the 2024 Women’s Market

Checking in on the 2024 Women’s Market

Every few years I take a deep dive into the women’s ski market, partly to re-visit the latest trends in the overall women’s field and partly to identify brands that have done the most to differentiate their women’s models from their unisex counterparts. This week’s...
The 2021/22 Women’s Ski Market

The 2021/22 Women’s Ski Market

The pandemic tore every plan I ever had for women’s ski coverage to shreds.  Undaunted, I’ve provided a full slate of  reviews of 21/22 women’s models.  In this Revelation, I divulge how Realskiers.com pulled off this unlikely coup.  Once upon a...
The Best Women’s Skis of 2020

The Best Women’s Skis of 2020

Before getting down to the business of picking favorites, let’s re-examine the fundamental question, what makes a ski a women’s ski?

Not to be flippant, but any ski its maker markets as a women’s model qualifies in that it will come in shorter lengths, which are scaled to match smaller people, a considerable percentage of which are women. To drive this point home, the women’s models will also be decorated in themes deemed – however correctly – to be more appealing to women.

Realskiers 2021 Women’s Ski Test: A Series of Linked Recoveries

Realskiers 2021 Women’s Ski Test: A Series of Linked Recoveries

If you ever saw footage of early-1970’s mogul contests, you understand the expression, “linked recoveries.” This turn of phrase sums up my repeated attempts to capture coverage of the primary players in the 2021 women’s Alpine ski market.

Before we learned coronavirus wasn’t street jargon for overindulging in imported beer, I had a plan in place. I’d paid handsomely to have my test card app refreshed just in time for the major western trade fairs at Mammoth Mountain, CA and Snow Basin, UT, which convened on overlapping dates.

The State of the Women’s Ski Market II

The State of the Women’s Ski Market II

Solid technical skills translate beautifully to powder, regardless of gender. Photo courtesy of Blizzard.  In 1993, there were 25 models of reputedly made-for-women skis entered in the Snow Country Magazine ski test. They were classified as “recreational,” but a more...