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Best skis for a 70 to 90 kg intermediate on hard snow
How we chose
We ran the Edge Lab model for a 80 kg intermediate skier on icy, hard snow, the middle of the 70 to 90 kg band. It works out carve radius, edge hold and float for every ski in the catalogue (547of them), then ranks them. These are the best available in our catalogue today, in the model’s order, not ours.
Reviewers like you count for more: a tester within 10 kg of 80 kg and at the same ability moves a ski up further than one who is neither. 1 of these picks have reviews so far, 0 with a tester within 10 kg.
Shops never change the order. Where a number is our estimate rather than the maker’s, it says est..
Top picks
1. Faction Dancer 106 TI
image © Faction - Carve radius about 15.6 m at 30° edge and 12.7 m at 45° (172 cm)
- In the model: edge hold “on the limit”, float “floats well”.
No reviews yet
Model inputs we estimated: flex, camber, rocker, mount pointest.
Faction Dancer 106 TI in full2. Faction Dancer 3
image © Faction - Carve radius about 15.6 m at 30° edge and 12.7 m at 45° (172 cm)
- In the model: edge hold “on the limit”, float “floats well”.
No reviews yet
Model inputs we estimated: flex, camber, rocker, mount pointest.
Faction Dancer 3 in full3. Faction Dancer 3 Jackson Hole
image © Faction - Carve radius about 15.6 m at 30° edge and 12.7 m at 45° (172 cm)
- In the model: edge hold “on the limit”, float “floats well”.
No reviews yet
Model inputs we estimated: flex, camber, rocker, mount pointest.
Faction Dancer 3 Jackson Hole in full4. Faction Dancer 3 Sam
image © Faction - Carve radius about 15.6 m at 30° edge and 12.7 m at 45° (172 cm)
- In the model: edge hold “on the limit”, float “floats well”.
No reviews yet
Model inputs we estimated: flex, camber, rocker, mount pointest.
Faction Dancer 3 Sam in full5. Blizzard Sheeva 9
image © Blizzard - Carve radius about 13.9 m at 30° edge and 11.3 m at 45° (174 cm)
- In the model: edge hold “on the limit”, float “some float”.
2 reviews, none by a tester within 10 kg of 80 kg
Model inputs we estimated: flex, camber, rocker, mount pointest.
Blizzard Sheeva 9 in full
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