Perhaps you don’t side with this tester’s idea of a good time, but surely you can appreciate the enthusiastic analogy. He wrote, “More fun than firing a rifle into the air while balls-deep in a squealing hog!” The Blizzard Cochise ski is a bad mother that rails on the firm stuff and drives through turns with the help of a cambered midsection and flat tail. It’s also right at home tackling variable terrain with the help of tip and tail rocker plus camber underfoot, remaining ultra-stable all the while, as evidenced by the 4.71 score in said category. “Rips like a race ski and can smear like peanut butter on bread,” said another.