Renoun Endurance 88 Skis Review: Switch Between Soft and Stiff

The advantages, though, were wide successful my 2 days of investigating successful Arizona (I planned to skis a 3rd time astatine Mount Hood successful Oregon, wherever conditions are worse than successful the Southwest, but a large outpouring tempest had the roads nether wintertime advisory, and I was not funny successful strapping tyre chains onto a rented Nissan Rogue).

Most skiers hold that a softer skis is amended connected bumpy terrain oregon atrocious snow, portion a stiffer skis is much comfy astatine higher speeds. Swapping betwixt the 2 is fundamentally the committedness of Renoun's design. I skied groomed runs from the somewhat icy apical of the highest to the slushy bottommost successful mid-March and recovered the Endurance 88s performed precise good the full time. I kept my edges erstwhile I wanted them, didn't drawback them arsenic I carved turns, and felt nary vibrations adjacent astatine apical speed.

The Renoun skis I tested are besides noticeably lighter than my regular ride, a brace of decade-old Armada TSTs the aforesaid length. The stats accidental determination is simply a 100-gram quality per ski. That means the Renoun skis are astir 5 percent lighter, though antithetic bindings marque it hard to comparison directly. My demo brace has adjustable bindings, which are heavier than modular bindings, and the skis were inactive noticeably lighter.

Fresh Legs

The Renoun's main vantage for a edifice skier bombing blues, similar me, is that dampening vibrations keeps your legs fresh. I'm unluckily cursed by mediocre beingness decisions to unrecorded arsenic a flatlander and lone get retired a fewer times a year, truthful I usually find my legs are jelly aft 2 days connected the hill. But connected the time aft my 2 sessions utilizing the Renouns with a brace of CEP compression socks, my legs felt nary antithetic than they would connected a mean time wherever I'm awakening astatine 7,000 feet of altitude aft an extended après.

The company's stated extremity is to halt you from reasoning astir your skis, and that was my experience—as I was reviewing them, I had to unit myself to halt and deliberation astir them alternatively than conscionable enjoying the presumption from the gondola. My lone different thought was that the blue-gray colorway looked atrocious with my greenish and orangish boots, and I privation they'd beryllium a small bolder successful style.