Photo update: Life is still rockin' at the 2018 FREESKIER Ski Test in Snowmass

That’s right, folks. All is well in Snowmass Village, where the FREESKIER testing squadron is putting 250 of next year’s skis through the wringer. The ones that garner the best scores via our handy mobile testing app will make it to the pages of the 2019 Buyer’s Guide, dropping in September 2018.

On Monday, we were blessed with over seven inches of fresh, blower Colorado snow, which allowed us to test out the 115+ mm skis—the ones you want on the deep days. As the week has progressed, the temperatures rose a bit, and we’ve been fortunate to have damn perfect conditions for testing 100-114 mm skis, as well as the 85-99 mm skis and park-centric ones, too. Whether it’s been trenching groomers, navigating bumps, hitting cliffs, zooming through the trees, jibbing around in the Snowmass terrain parks or enacting the biggest human slalom in the history of skiing (yeah, we’ll claim that), our army of talented ski testers has been kicking ass and taking names.

If you’re OK with becoming green with envy, enjoy the photos below, and stay tuned for more coverage as the week progresses.

The welcome crew, recruiting ski testers to join the monstrous human slalom on Snowmass. Photo: Matt Power

FREESKIER art director, Gunter Jones (a.k.a DJ Hott Dawg) and Zach Berman providing the tunes, with help from Suerte Tequila. Photo: Matt Power

Legendary tester Steve Karczewski. He’s skis better on one leg than most people do on two. Photo: Matt Power