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The HEAD STELLA is a lightweight and easy-to-ride snowboard for beginners and slightly advanced riders. The True Twin shape and Zero Camber profile make the board easy to control and provide a solid foundation for making your first strides on the slopes, riding switch, and in the park. I tested the STELLA for several weeks in a variety of conditions, from hard and icy slopes to soft spring snow and even some off-piste excursions. The test shows just how versatile this board really is.

The last summit of this year's Freeride Testival Tour had everything a freerider's heart could desire. Bright blue skies, fresh snow and cold temperatures made for a worthy end to the Testival season. And of course there were once again great prizes to be won in the snow depth prediction game!

The legendary PowderGuide snow depth prediction game will be at the Freeride Testival stops four times this winter - and each time you can win great prizes. PowderGuide will be present at all stops to hand out the prizes directly. Now at the last stop on the Stubai Glacier from March 21st to 22nd, 2026, you can take home unique prizes from Faction, Head, Kohla and Scott Sports worth almost 2,000 euros!

The Head Crux 93 is a versatile, medium-width and medium-light ski from the freeride touring segment. In the test, the Crux 93 performs well in powder and offers a solid skiing experience even in tougher conditions.

After the successful stops in Hochfügen and Montafon, the Freeride Testival 2026 returned to Warth-Schröcken for its third stop. PowderGuide was once again part of the action. In perfect spring weather and firn, we were not only able to put numerous skis through their paces, but also present our newly launched weather map to the public!

The legendary PowderGuide snow depth prediction game will be at the Freeride Testival stops four times this winter - and each time you can win great prizes. PowderGuide will be present at all stops to hand out the prizes directly. At the third stop in Warth/Schröcken from March 7 to 8, 2026, you can take home unique prizes from Head, Fritschi, Black Diamond, Contour and Forest Skis worth over 2,000 euros!

The new Freeride World Tour season is already in full swing. An exciting start to the 2026 season, in which the best freeriders in the world will be chosen on one and two boards. PowderGuide will once again be reporting live and up close from the tour this year. This year, we have already had the opportunity to interview one of the absolute high-flyers of recent years and get her in front of the lens. It's about the path away from the pressure to perform in the alpine system, mental low points on the Freeride World Tour and the search for true freedom on the mountain. Lena talks openly about her journey from racing to freeriding. It's about learning from mistakes, process-oriented thinking instead of fixating on results, responsibility in risky sports and why she now skis lines by feel and not by points.

The HEAD KORE Ti collection promises uncompromising off-piste fun. Whether on the piste, in perfect powder snow or when the going gets rougher. In the wide KORE series with six different middle widths from 88 to 118 mm for men and four versions for women (87 to 104 mm), everyone will find the right companion for perfect days on the mountain. Whether as an all-mountain version, versatile freeride all-rounder or big mountain machine. The sporty and reliable DNA runs like a perfect thread through the KORE series.

The legendary PowderGuide snow depth prediction game will be held four times this winter at the Freeride Testival stops - and each time you can win great prizes. PowderGuide will be present at all stops to hand out the prizes directly. It starts with the stop in Hochfügen from January 23 to 25, 2026, where you can take home prizes from Korua, Head, Dynafit, Deuter and of course PowderGuide worth 1,400 euros!

With the new Crux series, Head is launching a very light freetouring ski onto the market, which are intended to stand out from the competition in particularly through its downhill performance. At the same time, Tyrolia is launching new pin bindings. We have tested how the widest ski in the series, the Crux 105, mounted with the top Almonte 12 PT binding performs on snow.

As was to be expected, there are hardly any innovations or groundbreaking new products in the ski sector for the 2017/18 season. Ultimately, almost all manufacturers are taking up the ideas from previous years and presenting them in the form of further expanded freetouring series. They try to differentiate themselves from one another through various lightweight construction methods and sometimes incorporate complex designs into the ski structure, or offer a cheaper price point or entry-level model. Flagship models are given an asymmetric sidecut with an asymmetric tip design, which is presumably a foretaste of the ski design in the coming years. As we saw last year, powder twin tips continue to die out for many major manufacturers. There are more and more directional, lightweight skis with center widths of 90-110mm or for "bad snow".