Every year, ski companies aim to one up each other. This weekend at the SIA tradeshow in Denver, all of your favorites brands came together to duke it out. Obvious battles were waged over things like flex and pop, innovation and sustainability, tech and price. But one war is more opinion than fact: the war of topsheets.
Though it’s nearly impossible to put together a firm list of the best lookin’ skis of 2016/17, these are a few of our favorites: eight skis that, while we haven’t ridden ‘em yet, look pretty amazing even standing still.