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GEAR:30

Best Skis of the Century from Each Brand, Part 2

GEAR:30

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🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2 of our series on the Best Skis of the Century, Luke Koppa and Sascha Anastas join Jonathan Ellsworth to dive into the best skis from 23 more brands, and we also discuss some of the best and most notable women-specific skis of the past 25 years.

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TOPICS & TIMES:

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Sascha on Women’s Skis from Part 1 (3:58)

SCOTT (16:38)

Armada (18:23)

4FRNT (24:40)

Zag (28:12)

Moment (29:49)

Liberty (33:26)

Prior (37:30)

DPS (38:54)

Icelantic (45:33)

Black Crows (47:58)

Faction (49:25)

Wagner (51:46)

Majesty (55:31)

ON3P (56:37)

Folsom (1:04:38)

RMU (1:07:14)

Shaggy’s (1:09:00)

Meier (1:10:15)

Whitedot (1:11:18)

J Skis (1:12:20)

Parlor (1:15:17)

Coalition Snow (1:16:13)

Renoun (1:18:39)

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister podcast network, where we are very

0:10.3

proudly based out of Elevation Hotel right here in Crested, New Colorado.

0:16.4

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you, of course, can check out everything

0:22.3

we're doing and reviewing over at BlisterReview.com.

0:27.6

Today, we've got part two of our series on the best skis of the century, and as we did in

0:33.8

part one, today we are going to be looking at more ski companies to identify

0:38.8

which ski we'd call the best ski and or the most iconic or most influential ski from

0:46.5

that particular company.

0:48.8

We covered 15 ski brands in part one, and today we're covering another 23 companies, which brings our total

0:57.1

up to 38 ski companies covered. Also, today we are going to be taking a look at women's skis

1:04.7

with Sasha Anastis, and then joining Sasha and me is Blisters Managing Editor, Luke Kappa.

1:12.6

And if you are a Blister Plus member or Digital Access Pass subscriber,

1:17.5

then you should definitely check your inbox.

1:20.7

Because yesterday we emailed all of you a survey where you can offer your selections to the question of what is the best

1:30.3

ski from each of these companies. And then in part three of this series, right here on Gear 30,

1:37.0

we are going to be sharing some of your thoughts. And we're probably also going to be

1:41.5

sharing some thoughts from ski designers and some pro skiers

1:45.8

and some folks from some of our Blister recommended ski shops. We're going to have some of those

1:50.7

folks way in two. Then for the grand finale of this series, we are going to offer our choices

1:58.2

for the very best skis of the century.

2:02.4

And we'll also be sharing some of your answers to those questions too.

2:06.3

And we're going to see if we can try to get to a top 10 skis of the century.

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