The Alchemist Wailer 112 plays in the snow like Carlos Santana plays the guitar: fun, lively and with hips-a-swingin’. The Wailer’s aspen wood core provides energy and pop, supplemented with a prepreg carbon fiber laminate and other proprietary dampening materials to yield a ride as smooth as Santana’s 1999 hit single featuring Rob Thomas. The ski’s 112 mm waist, rocker-camber-rocker profile and tapered sidecut also add to its versatility. “A much more playful and buttery feel than many in this class… super smooth,” commented Mikey Wechsler, while Adrian Bouthot said it “makes skiing easy!”