Volkl

Aura Ski - Women's

When you're riding up the lift, all people see is another pretty pair of pink and purple ski bottoms. Make sure you mount your helmet-cam backwards, so you can relish their stunned faces as you blast through frozen roller-balls on your way to the steep and deep on the Volkl Women's Aura Ski.

Early rising is only good when it relates to a ski rocker profile. The Aura is an early bird, with an early rise tip and traditional camber profile for the remainder of the ski. This profile provides you with powder-puffing ability and corduroy-carving capacity without sacrificing control or speed. With 96mm underfoot, you and the Aura will cruise through big powder dumps with ease, and still be able to lay down curves that would make (Peter Paul) Rubens jealous.

The lightweight Sensorwood core consists of vertically laminated poplar and beech woods. Vertical lamination provides longitudinal stability over roller-coaster traverses and coasts back to lift while you're trying to catch your breath. (Face-high powder sprays can get in the way of breathing sometimes.) Like its male counterpart, the Mantra, the Aura sports titanium alloy sheets on top of and below the Sensorwood core, all of which is then wrapped in Volkl's Power construction. This design combines traditional sidewalls with a torsion box so you have side-to-side stability, grippy edges, and a smooth ride.