Member Reviews: 2012 Blizzard Cochise Ski

Tester:  Age: 42 Height 6'0" Weight 170# Years skiing:35 Days/season: 20 Aggressiveness: Controlled aggression Home area: Crystal Mt, WA Preferred terrain: steep and deep Days on this ski: 10 Conditions tested: all length of ski used: 185   this is a great ski.  It loves to run fast and make big turns.  It is great in powder, but it also makes cut-up powder and heavy crud feel like powder.  I think this sets this ski apart from many others.  It really does excel in poor conditions.  Groomers are fun too.  You can put it on edge and ride big turns like you are on rails.  It is super stable.     For me,...

Much like the quest to write the great American novel, there's been an ongoing quest to create the great all mountain ski.  Physics alone dictate that it's impossible to construct a ski that will carve groomers like a GS ski while floating and slarving in powder like a fat ski, but the Blizzard Cochise appears to come about as close as any ski ever created, or at least blows away any that I've ever been on in this respect.  To put it simply: these planks live up to the flipcore hype. In powder, the Cochise has just enough rocker at the tips (it's definitely a subtle, low rise profile for 108mm underfoot) to be effective even in Sierra cement, but it doesn't ski ridiculously...