HEAD’s award-winning KORE series was met with rabid enthusiasm when it debuted last winter, so it makes perfect sense that the brand has added a versatile 99-mm waist width to the family for 2018-19. “This ski has no compromises,” commented Adrian Bouthot. “It has a super fun waist width and would be an ideal one ski quiver that excels in a lot of areas.” The Head Kore 99 utilizes the same construction found in the rest of the family—lightweight karuba wood, incredibly strong yet thin Graphene, rockered tips and tails with camber underfoot—but in a waist width that’s dreamy in a few inches of fresh or the chopped up crud from last week’s storm.