POWDER KING
A 102-millimeter waist allows the Coomba to float easily in powder. But unlike some big-mountain skis, it’s also torsionally stiff enough to dice high-speed, large-radius turns with ease. Credit K2’s proprietary construction鈥攏amely, a shock-absorbing wood core with interlocking strands of fiberglass in the topsheet. 135/102/121; k2skis.com
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Bonus: A percentage of sales from the ski go to support Doug Coombs’s Memorial Fund, as well as the American Mountain Guide Association’s Chad Vanderham Endowment.
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Bummer: Not much snap out of the turn.
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