4FRNT Skis

Raven Ski

4FRNT's White Room is the Santa's Workshop of the ski industry—a magical place where hard-working elves turn out the best toys that we get all worked up about come cold weather. All the BB guns, toboggans, and video-game consoles in the world aren't as much fun as the Raven, which is a mountain-crushing, touring-ready ski built to handle variable conditions, charge chop, and plunder pow. With a skinnier waist than the Renegade and Hoji, the Raven comes in at 104mm and boasts a long and ludicrously fun 29m turn radius, so you can surf the white waves when the terrain opens up. The full flat camber and tapered tip and tail give the Raven edginess on hardpack and a smooth, hook-free feel in soft snow, and make it easy to pull the skis around in tight spots so you feel like you're skiing them, and not the other way around.

You wouldn't expect a touring-friendly ski to have any metal in it and, sure enough, the Raven skips out on heavy and damp titanium layers in favor of lighter, nimbler, and more energetic carbon. With the reprofiled Neo Core, this year's Raven offers an even stiffer and more supportive flex pattern as well as weight savings from previous seasons, giving the ski better uphill performance so your hip flexors won't be shredded like pulled pork by the time you hit the top of your line. 4FRNT also laid down its famous Vibe Veil dampening laminate to cut out chatter when you hit patches of hardpack and built the Raven with a semi-cap construction, which combines the edginess of a sandwich with the lightness of a full cap, so you can have your cake and shred it, too.