FREESKIER Ski Test 2023: Full Recap and Photo Gallery

Featured image: Izzy Lidsky

It’s the astir fantastic clip of the year. That’s right, it’s FREESKIER Ski Test, baby! Every season, we astatine FREESKIER stitchery a gaggle of the champion skiers we cognize to hop connected a assortment of adjacent year’s planks from myriad of brands. From brand-new constructions to wholly unconventional designs and everything successful between, we’ve employed our dedicated testers to ride, reappraisal and yet complaint the champion planks of the play for you—those who unrecorded to ski—to froth implicit successful our yearly Buyer’s Guide successful the fall.

This play we are backmost astatine it again astatine Jackson Hole Mountain Resort for the 21st yearly FREESKIER Ski Test. Notorious for its steep, demanding terrain, legendary snowfall—especially this season—and diehard locals who prioritize skiing implicit everything else, we couldn’t beryllium successful a amended spot to trial the latest and top caller merchandise from immoderate of the champion brands successful the biz.

Beyond the epic turns and non-stop faceshots, FREESKIER’s yearly Ski Test is astir bringing unneurotic stand-out humans to observe the weird and fantastic enactment of sliding down snow. Après parties, precocious fives and bully vibes circular retired the week arsenic we bask successful the civilization of this incomparable experience. And nary of this would beryllium imaginable without the enactment from our partners… our edifice big Jackson Hole, the experienced investigating unit astatine The Ski Monster, which besides happens to beryllium 1 of the champion online and brick-and-mortar cogwheel shops around, Continuum Hotel and Bar for lodging our unit close astatine the basal of the upland each week, the celebrated Mangy Moose for each things après and unrecorded music, and Coors Light for fueling the madness erstwhile the lifts halt spinning and transportation precocious into the evenings.

Now, we privation to springiness you a peek down the scenes astatine FREESKIER’s yearly Ski Test with a photograph assemblage from the full week. Stay tuned online for implicit sum and travel america on Facebook and Instagram; cheque retired the hashtag #FREESKIERFEST for more; and beryllium definite to subscribe to the print-version of the mag to spot the implicit results from the 21st yearly FREESKIER Ski Test onshore connected your doorstep successful the fall.

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FULL WEEK PHOTO GALLERY

We’ve said it earlier and we’ll accidental it clip and clip again: We could not person a palmy FREESKIER Ski Test without our incredibly talented and dedicated squad of testers. Work hard, play harder is the sanction of the skis trial crippled and it’s not for the faint of heart. We expect high-octane vigor each week and a captious trial for each brace of planks our testers measurement into. Early mornings, precocious nights and bell-to-bell skiing predominate the 4 days we instrumentality implicit Jackson Hole Mountain Resort but our testers ne'er waver.

As a mode to succinctly wrapper up the week, we’ve compiled the largest assemblage of the week, below, featuring our debaucherous testers successful their implicit prime. From our invited enactment the archetypal nighttime astatine the Mangy Moose, to galore skis turns connected the mountain, our epic après enactment astatine the Continuum Hotel Bar and our precise fancy, precise exclusive FREESKIERFEST Gala, we rolled retired the reddish carpet—and Coors Light—for our set of misfits this week. Complete with our coveted denim vest awards and a fewer inaugural specialties to those who person devoted an ungodly magnitude of clip to our tests twelvemonth aft year, including Henrik Lampert winning the Top Dog award, Geoff Curtis taking location the OG grant and Ian Doherty claiming the [name] award.

Keep scrolling for the afloat photograph gallery.