View post: One Dead After Small Plane Crashes Near Lake Tahoe I’ve learned to never judge a book by its cover, or a ski by its topsheet. When I first picked up Elan’s new Ripstick 102, I’d be lying if ...

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The do-it-all, magic-bullet ski has been difficult for designers to produce. In the past, there have always been tradeoffs: if a ski floated in powder it was skittish on groomers, and if it were ...

Some testers still aren’t sure about Elan’s Amphibio technology, where each ski has one cambered edge (inside edge) and one rockered edge (outside edge). They’re just not sold on the idea of a ...