Finesse Favorites: Ability Boosters

A case could be made that the whole idea of acquiring a modern ski is to make the business of getting from point A to point B as easy and effortless as possible. The skis our test panel has identified here have taken this mission to heart. These aren’t limp noodles...

Power Picks: High Speed on High Edges

The most powerful women’s Frontside skis aren’t the barely bendable beasts that populate the men’s Power selections, but they get the job done for the fairer – and lighter – sex. They possess the primordial property of maintaining snow contact when the skier pushes...

Women’s 2018 Technical Recommended Skis

There are no women’s race skis made for consumers, only unisex skis in shorter lengths. Thus has it ever been so. If you calculated all the varieties of race models already being built at great expense by the brands committed to the category, you’d understand why...

Women’s 2018 Big Mountain Recommended Skis

The women’s Big Mountain genre has bedeviled us since we began covering these super-fat models as a separate category five seasons ago. Part of the problem is that skis this wide require some semblance of new snow to be given a fair evaluation, limiting their appeal...

Women’s 2018 All-Mountain West Recommended Skis

In yet another example of our cutting-edge journalism, permit us to point out that men and women are different. The pertinent manifestation of this principle is that the same width ski that makes an ideal men’s all-terrain tool is a tad too wide to be an everyday ride...