Ski Press Magazine Ski Test Week – Day 2 Summary

Our first day started out as an adventure. We got to the top of the mountain fairly early and decided to take a run down the south side. Since we’ve arrived there has been some rain and it’s been warm.

We scooted over to the top of one of our favourite runs, the super s, and we found un-groomed ice bumps with a trace amount of dense powder in some of the troughs. It made for a tough warm-up run.

Our first test run was one of the epic runs – perfectly groomed and firm

After our ‘warm-up,’ or survival ski, we headed over to the tents for some more testing. Our day was to follow the theme of yesterday and test some more big mountain skis. Phil had a few ‘holes’ in his day, so he threw on his world cup slaloms and I chased him down the hill.

With all the test runs we’re doing we’re doing over 40,000 in vertical per day

The wind had died down so all the manufacturers had their tents lining the ‘catwalk.’ It was a great site, all the big ski names, some smaller ones too, and a whole bunch of people lining up to get their next skis to try.

On our way down the mountain after our day on snow we skied by the Super S and noticed that they had closed it off! We sped down the mountain and into the apres-ski where I won a long sleave shirt from Icebreaker. Most of the testers ended up at Laventure for dinner, but unfortunately they couldn’t handle the group and we spent 3.5 hrs waiting for dinner. All we could do is sip decent wine… so needless to say we were pretty much ready for bed after dinner.

Next we are trying the carving skis. It should be an epic day with the promise of warm weather and blue bird skies.