Elan Ripstick Black Edition – Test 2022

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Reading Time: < 1 minutes SKI CANADA TEST 2022 ELAN RIPSTICK BLACK EDITION 96 * NON-METAL ALL-MOUNTAIN * EDITORS’ CHOICE BEST FOR: An all-mountain quiver killer.  This was one of the most popular skis on […]

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Coming to a Ski Shop Near You

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Reading Time: 3 minutes From the longest lift lines in memory to locked-down resorts to the continued rise in alpine touring, the one thing uniting skiers across the country is our hopeful look to […]

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Elan Wildcat 86 CX ski test

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Elan Ripstick 106 ski test

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Reading Time: 2 minutes A 106mm waist is at the top end of what we consider an all-mountain width, but the Ripstick encouraged us to keep an open mind. This is a sequel and […]

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Test 2020: Elan Wingman 86CTi

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Reading Time: < 1 minutes Test 2020: Elan Wingman 86CTi BEST FOR: Those searching for a classic do-everything all-mountain ski. LENGTHS:              160, 166, 172, 178, 184 DIMENSIONS:         127/86/113 RADIUS:                 17@184 SUGGESTED RETAIL: $700 OTHER MODELS:    […]

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Test 2020 – Elan Black Edition Insomnia

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Fast As A Porsche     Porsche builds fast, refined cars. Elan builds skis that make our sport more fun. And when the two companies work together on a product, we […]

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Do skiers owe snowboarders?

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever zipped past snowboarders who couldn’t get enough speed on the flats in deep snow? If you love off-piste skiing as much as I do, I’m sure you’ve […]

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Test 2019 women – Elan Delight Black Edition

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Ski Canada Test 2019 On-Slope Reviews SWAROVSKI ON THE SLOPES Inlaid into the topsheet of the Elan Delight Black Edition are actual Swarovski crystals. While they don’t add anything to […]

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Test 2019 – Elan Amphibio Black Edition

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Reading Time: 2 minutes   Ski Canada Test 2019 On-Slope Reviews TAKE IT TO THE BLACK Like it did with its Ripstick freeride ski and Delight women’s carver, Elan designers upped the performance on […]

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RYAN REPORT – Highlights from the snow show

Reading Time: 2 minutes Over four days at the end of January the ski industry unveiled the future of skiing. I checked it all out at the annual retail buying show in Denver, previewing […]

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RYAN REPORT – Elan Ripstick 106

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Reading Time: 2 minutes As a gear reviewer I see products long before they make it to stores. I see a lot of new gear. Through all the noise of new skis, jackets, helmets […]

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Test 2018 – Freeride Women Specific Models

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Reading Time: 6 minutes by RYAN STUART in the Fall 2017 issue VÖLKL 100EIGHT W BEST FOR: Power skiers in deep snow   *   LENGTHS:  157, 165, 173   *   RADIUS:  16.7@165   *   SIDECUT:  141-108-124   *   $799   […]

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Ski Canada Test 2018 – Freeride

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Reading Time: 12 minutes Freeride skis are inspired by deep snow, high speeds and big airs. These are the sticks the crazy guys and girls ski on in the movies. But that doesn’t mean […]

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RYAN REPORT – Elan skis & White Wilderness Heli

Reading Time: 2 minutes Elan partners with White Wilderness Heli Skiing Elan’s Ripstick skis are designed for ripping powder, launching cliffs, playing in the trees and arcing huge turns in even bigger terrain. They’re […]

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Test 2018 – 14 All-Mountain skis

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Reading Time: 17 minutes When pulling together a winter’s worth of feedback, we realized this new test has some valuable differences. The reviews are more thorough, personal and in-depth. The quality feedback allowed us […]

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Notable Mentions 2017

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Reading Time: 5 minutes By day four of any trade show most of the new gear one sees blurs into a kaleidoscope of marketing verbiage. That said, a few products manage to stand out […]

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Frontside 2017

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Sexy has finally made its way into frontside skiing. Groomers and carving may sound staid, but with direct trickle-down from the World Cup and substantial R&D, some of the most […]

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What’s Trending

Reading Time: 7 minutes When does a fad become something more? Every year new ideas, styles, colours and flavours emerge. Some of them stick around to change the sport for the better—think rocker shape […]

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Welcome Wagon

Reading Time: < 1 minutes “We all know the biggest problem with our sport is not just getting new skiers and snowboarders to come out and try it, it’s getting them to come back,” says […]

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Frontside 2016

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Classic Frontside skiers typically look for narrower waist widths than the true All-Mountain crowd—generally less than 85mm. This season expect to see revamped cores, lightweight modifications and vibration control technologies […]

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News and Trends From the Trenches

Reading Time: 2 minutes MORE U-FLEX Former World Cup racer and now Elan President and CEO Primoz Plestenjak made it clear when he told Ski Canada, “We can’t teach people to ski, but we […]

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All-Mountain Skis

Reading Time: 4 minutes  by Marty McLennan, tech editor, in Buyer’s Guide 2014 issue photo: HENRY GEORGI  All-mountain ladies Fischer’s KOA 80 (122/80/110) is a strong all-round tool for powder and piste ladies. All-mountain […]

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Your Run – Spring 2012

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Reading Time: 4 minutes LEFT AND RIGHT. RIGHT? » I read your review of the Elan Amphibio with great interest (“Elan: Slovenian for common sense,” First Tracks, Winter 2011). But I have a question. When you accidentally […]

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Big Mountain 2012

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Reading Time: 9 minutes    Size matters in the domain of the Big Mountain—and it doesn’t get any bigger than here. Big Mountain means big snow, air, tricks and glory. It starts around a century underfoot […]

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