There are few issues in snowboarding fairly like FREESKIER’s annual Ski Take a look at—heck, we’d even go so far as saying it’s the perfect rattling week of the 12 months. Each season, we invite a cohort of the perfect skiers we all know to get a sneak preview of the best, fresh-off-the-press planks that can be featured in our annual Purchaser’s Information. Practically 30 manufacturers, massive and small, fill the racks with skis that includes new applied sciences and constructions, and our group of riders price, overview and rank the gear that will help you—the avid skier—sift via the insanity to seek out your latest favourite skis.
This season, we’re on-site at one of the famend ski locations on this planet, Jackson Gap Mountain Resort. Identified for its steep, demanding terrain, legendary snowfall and diehard locals who prioritize snowboarding over every little thing else, we couldn’t be in a greater place to check the newest and biggest new product from among the finest manufacturers within the biz.
Past the snowboarding, although, FREESKIER’s annual Ski Take a look at is about bringing collectively wonderful folks to have fun the extraordinary sport we love a lot. Après events, excessive fives and good vibes spherical out the week as we expertise the tradition of this snow sliding expertise. And none of this might be potential with out the help from our companions… our resort host Jackson Gap, The Ski Monster, a crew of skilled gear testers with the most effective on-line and brick-and-mortar gear outlets round, Leki, who decked out our complete testing crew with recent ski poles and Stillhouse Whiskey, a Colorado-based distiller cooking up belly-warming spirits which can be preserving the occasion going late into the evenings.
Now, we need to provide you with a peek behind the scenes at FREESKIER’s annual Ski Take a look at with a photograph gallery from all the week. Keep tuned on-line for full protection and comply with us on Fb, Twitter and Instagram; take a look at the hashtag #FREESKIERFEST for extra; and be sure you subscribe to the print-version of the journal to see the whole outcomes from the twentieth annual FREESKIER Ski Take a look at land in your doorstep within the fall.
DAY ONE — March eighth, 2022
Testing day one commenced with excessive vibes and FAT flakes falling from the sky. It brief, we fucking nailed it. Jackson wanted a recent coat and we received the products. With a brand new inches of recent atop the leftovers from the earlier storm, we had our testing squadron take out the narrowest skis within the lot—85 mm to 99 mm underfoot, designed to arch turns but additionally handle the variable snow protecting Jackson’s professional terrain. And, with a full day of snowboarding underneath our belts, we needed to finish the day with an outrageous charcuterie board and a rockin’ dance occasion.
