We’re having the best week ever here at Snowbird testing out next year’s skis, and want to give you a behind-the-scenes look at what’s been goin’ down via a ridiculous amount of photos, below. Scroll through, enjoy and get psyched for our 2018 Buyer’s Guide (subscriptions available now for a crazy-good deal).
Photos from the 2017 FREESKIER Ski Test:
(Photos by Erik Seo, Jay Dash and Sarah Sherman)
Conditions all over Snowbird couldn’t be better right now. Here, Strafe‘s Whit Boucher arcs some Icelantic boards.
The whole crew got absolutely pitted… The weapon of choice, here, the asymmetrical 2017-18 Blizzard Spur.
One of our testers Willie Nelson, gets airborne with 4FRNT.
Seriously… We cannot tell you enough how rad it is out there.
Tester Katrina DeVore gets the goods w/ next year’s Faction Skis under her feet.
Mr. Mike Filander, veteran tester, out for a midday flight.
Here’s Katrina again, still shredding the sh#t out of Snowbird, this time with that new-new from DPS.
D.E.E.P.
REALLY deep.
Our Senior Editor Donny O’Neill is in there somewhere…
There he is! Hi, Donny!
Pep Fujas was in the house, ladies and gentlemen. In true Pep fashion, he launched a massive cliff nice and early and completely blew up his binding.
J Skis athlete Giray Dadali also made a guest appearance—ready for any and all situations.
Dadali joked around with his Daymaker Touring adapters in Sego’s mini skis.
Very happy testers, as expected.
A fresh pair of 2018 Head skis getting prepped for testing.
Binding adjustments are the name of the game at Ski Test.
A pair of Faction skis en route to the slopes, with some new Fischer skis in the background.
Discussing testing protocol at the base of Snowbird.
Tester Jenny Harris gets set up with a brand-new pair of Faction skis.
“That was f#cking awesome!”
Aaargh!
Conditions have been so darn good all week.
Pro shredder Dale Talkington made a guest appearance; he was psyched to spin many awesome laps with our ski testers. Here’s Dale sending it into the pow leftover from Monday’s 14″ storm, following 75+ inches in last week’s storm cycle. Photo by Evan Williams, of Nordica.
Dale Talkington, yet again, blowing through a massive pile of pow. Photo by Evan Williams, of Nordica.
It’s DEEP out there, folks.
Well over a foot of snow this week means epic turns on top of epic turns.
Retro run! Look at that spread eagle!
Wee!
Truly doesn’t get any better than this ????.
Prepping 4FRNTs for another test run!
A taste of next year’s Faction products—including the Dictator 2.0, Prodigy and others.
Our love for Fischer continued this week via top-notch offerings for winter 2017-18. Here, we display only a few.
So. Many. Skis.
Just a smidge of HEAD‘s massive ski collection here.
LINE‘s newest fleet of Sick Day skis and others have had testers totally psyched here at The Bird.
Sego arrived with a wide variety of kickass boards—here are a few of ’em!
Models from Völkl like the Mantra, 100 Eight and many others are all present here at Snowbird.
Chamonix-based Black Crows is making its way into the US market like crazy right now and we know exactly why: their skis, like the ones pictured here, are insanely fun to ride. And these are just three of ’em.
FREESKIER’s Online Editor, Connor Davis, with next year’s Blizzard Rustler 11, a Pret helmet and a Phunkshun facemask. In other words: some of the hottest products out there.
Blizzard‘s Pearson Neal with some of next year’s fleet.
Alex Hunt of DPS with his pride and joy for winter 2017-18.
Dynafit ain’t just a touring brand, folks; we tested these boards all over Snowbird on gnarly terrain and had a frickin’ blast.
Elan brought some rippin’ boards to the test, meaning they have plenty to smile about.
Icelantic, as expected, showed up with some top-performing skis covered in amazing graphics.
We celebrated International Women’s Day with our #GirlCrew of badass, ripping lady ski testers. Sending a big shout-out to ski-loving women around the world.
Thanks to Pret Helmets for protecting our testers’ noggins.
Whip it! Whip it good!
Awesome to have our friends from Ski Utah on-site this week, proponents of “The Greatest Snow on Earth.”
Ski tester Katrina DeVore crushing the piñata, first go.
Victory!
So. Serious.
One word: Fashion.
Unce, unce, unce.
Thanks, YETI, for keeping our beverages nice and cold all darn week.
[caption]Marcus Caston arcing the dreamiest of turns on his Blizzards—showing the racers how it’s really done.
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