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Information on me: 5’9 (176cm), 145 lbs (66kg) 40 years old skier. Been skiing since I’m five and I ski pretty much anything. Currently on a pair of old Salomon Equipe 10 RC 160 cm, which are too short and not stiff enough for properly ripping turns on hard terrain (purchased them blindly...

I was doing some digging to see how these two differ, and I got some strange results on Soothski- I was expecting the HRC to be a fair bit stiffer than the R15 due to the dense core and extra carbon, but the numbers are showing the opposite??. I don't think the HRC has changed at all since...

One of the best regional shops makes a selection of next year’s skis – and this year’s, in the case of models that are coming back or are still unsold in the shop – available to its customers to “test” on a day in spring. I showed up for this year’s event at Saddleback and have provided some...