I took some of the best backcountry skis for powder up and down my home mountains in Salt Lake City, Utah, in a wide range of conditions. Use my reviews of the best backcountry skis for powder to ...

Völkl makes a very strong case for a high-performance one-ski quiver with the newly revamped carbon fiber V-Werks Katana.

With a 22 meter radius, minimal taper, 2mm of traditional camber underfoot and wide shovels on either end ... a season in bounds throws your way. J Skis wins the simplicity category for me this year ...

In fact, it’s one of the softest powder skis we tested this year ... but that's fine. The wide 114mm waist width, paired with the huge amounts of tip and tail rocker give the ski impressive ...

What I’m saying is that narrow skis–85mm and skinnier–are ... the notion that one must have an immensely wide ski to properly make turns in powder is a farce. Does that mean we need to ...