2012 Tester's Choice Skis
2012 Tester's Choice Skis
If you only read one thing about skis this winter, this should be it. This year, we tested 150 skis, reviewed 86, and picked nine as our favorites. Here are those skis. Start dreaming.
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Blizzard Cochise
Never in our test’s recent history has a ski elicited such an enthusiastic consensus among testers, which is why the Cochise is Skiing’s 2012 Ski of the Year. Trenching groomers, threading tree lines, and surfing powder—the Cochise never found anything it didn’t like. But the way it smeared so smoothly through chopped pow and bony crud was its most impressive talent. Easterners might consider Blizzard’s narrower Bonafide or Bushwhacker. Everyone else, meet your new one-ski quiver.
135/108/123 | $900 (flat)
Lengths: 177, 185, 193
Turn Radius: 28.5 at 185
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