Canvas 118 | 2027

New from Blizzard, this ski holds its own when you open the throttle. Its playful shape and super energetic nature make it a modern freeride tool and mark Blizzard’s entry into an entirely new category.

Over three years and countless prototypes, the Canvas 118 was truly built from the ground up with the help of numerous Blizzard freeride athletes, from Piper Kunst to Connery Lundin. With those pros in mind, Blizzard designed this ski to be equally adept at floating in soft snow and charging through tracked out pow, with no apparent speed limit.

At a relatively light weight, 1960 g per ski (in the 188 cm length), the Canvas 118 is built to keep you on the hill without tiring you out on those free-refill kind of days. Combine that lightweight nature with insane energy that does a lot of the work for you, and this ski might be your new best friend for bell-to-bell powder days. It proved an effective weapon not just for the aforementioned surfy pow turns and frontside power prowess, but also extremely nimble and easy to pivot in tighter technical terrain.

If you’ve skied Blizzard’s Rustler 11, you might feel a familiar shape in the Canvas 118, but that is where the similarities end. It weighs less than the Rustler 11 and is much more playful thanks to softer tips and tails, less metal and more rocker. While the new Canvas lineup provides the most playful and surfy skis we have ever seen out of Blizzard, it should be noted that the Canvas 118 is not quite as soft-flexing as most powder skis in the same category coming from other manufacturers.

If you’re looking for a pair of powder boards that bring the energy, can hold the throttle open and serve as a reliable stomp pad, give the new Canvas 118 a good look.