DPS Skis Cassiar 95 Pure3 Ski
DPS Skis Cassiar 95 Pure3 Ski

Storm riding is great, but since we don’t all live on Hokkaido, having a killer frontside ski in your quiver is a must. DPS made its name with fat powder boards, but that’s not all the company does; the Cassiar 95 Pure3 Ski is an all-mountain missile made to rail groomers, stitch up tight bump…

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DPS Skis Cassiar 95 Tour1 Ski
DPS Skis Cassiar 95 Tour1 Ski

In ski construction, “light” has traditionally been a synonym for “cheap,” “entry-level,” or “backcountry,” but DPS never saw it that way. From the beginning, the company focused on making its skis light, not as an end unto itself but because cutting weight meant increasing quickness, boosting…

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DPS Skis Lotus 120 Spoon Ski
DPS Skis Lotus 120 Spoon Ski

We’ve all been there–the first turn that sends snow well over your head and leaves you gasping for breath, followed by nothing but the white room for what feels like minutes–it’s this feeling that will make skiers quit jobs, sleep in snowy parking lots, and drive hundreds of miles cross-country…

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DPS Skis Lotus 138 Spoon Ski
DPS Skis Lotus 138 Spoon Ski

It’s hard to describe why powder skiing is awesome without sounding like you’ve been taking spiritual instruction from your burned-out uncle, but hey, sometimes you’ve just gotta float through pow like a disembodied conscience through the beautiful nothingness that we call existence, man. Whether…

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DPS Skis Nina 99 Pure3 Ski – Women’s
DPS Skis Nina 99 Pure3 Ski – Women’s

El Nino might be the preferred weather pattern of most skiers, but even The Boy doesn’t guarantee you’ll spend the whole winter living in dumptown. When you’re ripping variable conditions, with boot-deep blower one day, manky leftovers the next, and crusty groomers for a few days after, the DPS…

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DPS Skis Spoon Ski
DPS Skis Spoon Ski

Ticking off heli drops with an all-mountain ski on your feet is like going to a five-star restaurant and eating $40 soup with a fork: tasty, but you’re totally missing the point. If your 96mm-underfoot boards are a fork, the DPS Spoon Ski is a ladle made of carbon fiber and 24-carat gold, an…

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DPS Skis Wailer 105 Pure3 Ski
DPS Skis Wailer 105 Pure3 Ski

DPS gave the iconic Wailer 105 Pure3 Ski a redesign last season, and things went well enough that the company left well enough alone for 2015/16. To make this all-mountain freeride ski a little more aggressive, DPS mellowed out the sidecut profile, giving the 105 a raging 28m turning radius in…

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DPS Skis Wailer 112RP2 Pure3 Ski
DPS Skis Wailer 112RP2 Pure3 Ski

A ski with legendary status can be tricky. Changing it will risk the ire of a diehard group of fans, but leaving it untouched means it’ll probably lose its legendary status after a few years. What to do’ From the beginning, DPS has never been a company content to stand pat, so it wasn’t…

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DPS Skis Wailer 112RP2 Tour1 Ski
DPS Skis Wailer 112RP2 Tour1 Ski

DPS’ M. O. is to pick a killer shape and camber profile, then build several skis with different cores and laminates so you can choose the one with the characteristics that best suit you. The Wailer 112 RP2 Tour1 Aki, for example, is a quiver-of-one pow ski with a solid amount of tip rocker,…

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DPS Skis Wailer 112RPC Pure3 Ski
DPS Skis Wailer 112RPC Pure3 Ski

The original Wailer 112 RPC is perhaps DPS’ most beloved ski, with a giant sweet spot and loads of stability, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect for everyone. Never fear, though; if you love the RPC’s reliability and float but want a little more aggression and down-the-fall-line attitude, the new…

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DPS Skis Wailer 99 Pure3 Ski
DPS Skis Wailer 99 Pure3 Ski

There’s no shortage of mid-sized all-mountain skis in the industry today, but few, if any, share the same progressive geometry, feather-light construction, and torsionally stiff feel of the DPS Wailer 99 Pure3 Ski. Designed and built in the long shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range, the Wailer 99s…

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DPS Skis Wailer 99 Tour1 Ski
DPS Skis Wailer 99 Tour1 Ski

DPS has the reputation of being a backcountry-first company, but that’s not entirely accurate. It’s always valued lightness, but that’s been taken to mean, “touring performance,” which wasn’t really DPS’ intention. Lightweight skis, the company will tell you, are just as useful in bounds as out,…

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