2022 Rossignol Black Ops Sender Ti

[SkiTalk Test Team]

Philpug: (snippet from full preview/review HERE) As soon as I got the Sender Ti on snow, I knew I had gone two for two (ie, the length and the mount). To reiterate, the Sender Ti is so not the Soul 7. Where the Soul was light and pinged on the snow, feeling and sounding almost synthetic, the Sender Ti is confidence-inspiring. The conditions for testing were a bit unusual for Squaw. It rained slightly the previous night but never really froze, nor did it get too heavy or even manky. The glossy spots were firm but breakable, and the places people had skied were almost like corn but with more resistance than spring corn. Throw in some flat light in sections, and a ski whose main trait is stability was indeed a solid weapon of choice.

We were only out for a couple of hours or so and started on the undulating bumps on the Saddle where the 180 Sender Ti was actually playful. Then we were off to Siberia chair and a couple of runs down the face along with traverses over to East Wall and down. I was duly impressed with the way the Sender Ti handled the mixed conditions, and the 180 never felt short.

The published turning radius of the 187 is 21 m, which means the 180 is probably just under that, around 20 m, and it felt all of that. This longer turn radius was noticeable on the flats, and the ski wasn’t quite as quick across the hill as some others. But that's fine, because those skis aren’t as good off piste as this one. Rossignol committed to making an off-piste charger, and by golly it succeeded.

Long-term update (from last season): I was finally able to get out on some wider skis in applicable conditions -- and damn it, it felt good. The all-new Rossignol Sender Ti was a welcome addition to the test fleet last season. After selfishly mounting it with some shiny Look Pivot 15 Golds, I made it my personal weapon of choice in our demo fleet.​

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Mt Rose received a foot-plus of Sierra cement the night prior; the fresh coat of spackle was sorely needed and the Sender Ti performed exactly as I had hoped. This was one of those days where the snow and ski matched with perfect synergy that of the other 40 or so skis I have access to in our test fleet, there was no other ski I would have rather been on.​

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In these heavy-ish conditions, the Sender Ti was the perfect choice to go from the fresh to cut-up to the groomed main arteries. While I would never profess that a One Oh Something is the ideal daily driver, the Sender Ti was really ... really ... good today.​

 

[SkierGolferNH]

I agree completely. This is similar to the Experience 100 from a few years ago (the green one).