![]() photo: ADAM STEIN * tester: DAVE GOLLOGLY Also available as a free app from the iStore & Google Play. WRITTEN BY RON BETTS from Buyer’s Guide 2015 issueĪtomic | Blizzard | Elan | Fischer | Head | K2 | Kastle | Line | Nordica | Salomon | Snoday | Stockli | Volkl FIND SKIS using Ski Canada’s interactive ski test tool – SkiFinder. You’ll ski faster, more confidently and you won’t be bringing a knife to a gunfight. What you need is a pair of Big Mountain skis under your feet. You don’t want to be the person in the lift line on a narrow carving ski when everyone around you is ready to charge on skis built for the job. ![]() So let’s not forget the most important decision you’ll make when hunting the elusive powder day. Leave nothing to chance and you’ll be getting faceshots while the rest of the world stares at their office cubicle walls. Your gear needs to be properly tuned and readied, ski clothing laid out and winter tires on the car in October-just in case there’s an early-season storm. Today’s winter warriors need to possess the same level of preparedness and precision as Special Ops soldiers. What are the chances that your solid snowfall ends up dusting you and dumping one mountain range over? If snow comes in with wind, then the cold smoke turns into crust and hardpack. If temps warm up midway through a storm, a perfect powder day becomes a struggle in boot-deep cement. Our sport is weather dependent and prone to subtle changes in environmental conditions. We’re all just a bunch of snow-hungry frothers-winter junkies who watch weather maps and plan important life events around the possibility of the big dump.
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