Skialper 2016 buyers' guide. The new gold standard
I've been checkin buyers' guide for years, both in english and in french.
As you know, the very large majority of them is bullshit, a few are of some (ehm.. little) interest, so far the only one I really liked was the FriFlyt one because of abundant data and flex indexes by the genius of Mr. Endre Hals. What a pity, it is in Norwegian, only a few scandi can read it :(
Now we finally have a GREAT buyers' guide, with tons of meticolous data (actually, all the real, analytical data one can ask for..) and comments from very good skiers who actually skied intensively all the gear. And yes, it's by an italian magazine, but it's written ALSO IN ENGLISH.
Kudos to the Skiapler magazine crew. They already did two stellar buyers' guide in 2014 and 2015, but they were only in italian. Now they made the huge effort to publish it also in english, and they would deserve all your support if you're gear geeks like I am.
Although they were born as a skimo magazine, they wisely dedided to open to steep and freeride, so the guide includes a lot of decently large sticks. Bummer there was no way to test US skis that still have a poor EU distribution (4FRNT, Moment, ON3P, etc...) but they might be included in the future should the guide have the success it deserves.
The pdf can be downloaded by the iphone and android app called skiapler.
They also told me that in a few days a direct e-commerce link will be available.
It might look like a spam, but I have no involvment with the Skiapler guys at all. I just like they way they have done the guide, and believe many of you will like it too.