Best All Mountain Skis of 2025

We like to think that there are two ways to go about this. Some folks like to lean into their strengths. Say you’re a traditional, directional skier who maybe used to bash gates in high school, and you love laying deep trenches on groomers at high speed. Maybe the move is to shop for a ski that will help you do that even better than before, taking advantage of new materials and shapes to get the most out of every turn.

But others like to tailor their skis to their weaknesses, to help expand their range as skiers. So playful, freestyle-focused skiers (looking at you, park rats) could look for something more stable and powerful, knowing that they have the skills to ski it playfully if they so desire.

Neither of those approaches is any better than the other, but it’s worth thinking about where you fall on that spectrum. Do you want a ski that does the things you already like doing really well, or are you looking to expand your comfort zone? 

About Powder’s Best Ofs

Our Best Of lists are collections of the skis, boots, outerwear, and other gear that stood out to us while testing. If you want to learn more about how reviews work at Powder, we’re very transparent about our process. These lists are constantly growing and evolving as we try new gear. If you’ve got a favorite piece of equipment that you think we should write about, let us know here. And, if you represent a brand or company and think your gear deserves a writeup, we’d love to get in touch.

Atomic Bent 100

• Waist Width: 100 mm
• Weight (179 cm): 1700 g
• Best for: Skiers looking for a lighter weight do-it-all.

Read Powder’s Full Review of the Atomic Bent 100 here.

The updated 2024/25 Atomic Bent 100 is still one of the lighter options on this list, but that doesn’t mean it’s just a featherweight jib stick. Instead, this is a very versatile ski that can do a lot of things well, and will make an excellent companion no matter the conditions or where you ski. Despite it's light weight, it's surprisingly quiet and damp in tracked out and cruddy snow, and delivers a ton of pop and energy for airing off rollers, cat tracks, sidehits, or just bouncing from turn to turn on fresh corduroy.

The most playful skiers will want to mount it a little closer to center, to help make it feel more balanced and playful, while more traditional, directional skiers will prefer it at its recommended line, or even further back. But, wherever you choose to mount it, the Bent 100 delivers a responsive, intuitive ride.

Blizzard Anomaly 102

• Waist Width: 102 mm
• Weight (188cm): 2240 g
• Best for: Powerful and consistent ski performance, everywhere.

Read POWDER's full review of the Blizzard Anomaly 102 here.

Blizzard’s brand-new Anomaly 102 is an aggressive all-mountain freeride ripper with a need for speed, replacing the much-loved Cochise in the brand's lineup. The finely tuned flex is satisfyingly powerful on hard snow, but not overbearing when things soften up. With a nearly completely flat tail, subtle tip rocker and almost no taper up front, it’s no surprise that the Anomaly 102 wants to go fast. What we came to like, however, was how easy it was to get up to speed and control. It’s just as happy on and off-piste, as long as the snow isn’t too deep. 

If you’re a high-performance skier whose home hill isn’t frequently blessed by fresh snow, the Blizzard Anomaly 102 is an excellent choice as a daily driver. Grab a pair for those mornings when there’s fresh cord, no lift lines, and you want to channel your inner World Cup racer. They might feel stiff when hand flexing, but on snow, the flex feels much more balanced, especially torsionally.

Armada ARV 106 and Women's ARW 106

• Waist Width: 106 mm
• Weight (180cm): 2025 g
• Best for: Making the most of otherwise mediocre days

Read Powder's full review on the Armada ARV/W 106.

The ARV/ARW 106 has been a staple of the Armada lineup for some years now, but it got a full makeover for this season. Despite a trend towards making stiffer, burlier skis in the ARV/W lineup, the 24/25 version bucks that trend, returning to a softer, more playful platform that will make many freestyle-oriented skiers very happy. It's buttery, loose, and really fun, and an excellent choice when you just want to get out for laps even though the snow might not be great.

Our testers found it very able all over the hill with particular praise for the ski’s ability to carve high-speed turns and yet retain a playful feel. The skis split the different between a park ski and an all-mountain ski perfectly, handling most resort conditions comfortably while remaining a park ski at heart.

Atomic Maverick 105 CTi and Maven 103 CTi

• Waist Width: 105/103 mm
• Weight: 1610 g
• Best for: Resort powder skiing

Read POWDER's full review of the Atomic Maverick 105 CTi and the Maven 103 CTi here.

All-mountain skis come in all shapes and sizes, and that’s what makes this category so interesting. Versatility is a hard thing to come by in skis, but the Maverick 105 CTi consistently impressed us with its balance of light weight and performance in soft and variable snow. It’s good on-piste, but really comes alive when you duck off-piste into the more interesting areas of the resort. The ski tracks very precisely and rewards energetic skiing, giving you plenty to push into when navigating bumps, tight trees, steep chutes, or just ripping groomers back to the lift. In fresh powder it belies its waist width, floating really well thanks to the big shovels.

Atomic’s new women’s all-mountain freeride ski, the Maven 103 CTi not only bridges the gap between the on- and off-piste categories, it truly excels in each, offering a smooth, chatter-free ride off piste. A big departure from the existing Maven, the new 103 CTi incorporates design elements from the FWT-proven Maverick 115 CTi into a more versatile package for aggressive lighter weight skiers–very powerful edge grip, solid stability in crud, a penchant for longer turns than the 17m sidecut radius might suggest. All of our female testers agreed the Maven 103 CTi is an excellent choice as an everyday, jill-of-all-trades ski for just about anywhere in the West no matter the conditions.

Blizzard Sheeva 10

• Waist Width: 102 mm
• Weight (174cm): 1735 g
• Best for: A women's ski that can handle it all, no matter what.

Read POWDER's full review of the Blizzard Sheeva 10 here.

Skiing heavy, cruddy snow isn’t all that fun usually. That is, unless you have the right pair of skis. Blizzard’s new women’s-specific Sheeva 10 is definitely one of those, optimized to provide a consistent and predictable ride in just about any conditions and terrain. Inside, the Sheeva features the same Freeride Trueblend woodcore as the men’s Rustler series as well as a slightly lighter version of their Fluxform metal construction (eg. there’s one less sheet of Titanal inside). 

At 102mm underfoot, they will serve you well any day of the season, but ski very differently from the Anomaly 102. All that adds up to a ski that’s stiff, but not too stiff–these are a hard-charging but reliable women's all-mountain resort ski for when there’s a big question mark on the conditions report.

Dynastar M-Pro 100 and Women's M-Pro 98W

• Waist Width: 100/98 mm
• Weight (186cm): 2000 g
• Best for: Steep terrain and variable snow conditions.

Read POWDER's full review of the Dynastar M-Pro 100 and women's M-Pro 98W here.

The magic of the all mountain ski category is that it encompasses such a wide variety of shapes, flex profiles, and constructions that all bring a unique style of the sensation of sliding around on snow. It can be overwhelming. Despite its on-piste-only looks, Dynastar’s M-Pro 100 is an absolute weapon off the beaten path, confidently ripping turns in steep and technical terrain, especially when the snow is soft and edgeable. The ski has boundless energy and responds immediately, adding snap and a serious fun factor to skiing bumps, chalky bowls, and tight trees. It’s the kind of ski that will have you gapping over moguls at speed instead of just slithering through them, and grinning ear to ear as you drop your friends racing down the headwall of a steep bowl.

The women's M-Pro 98 W version performs similarly well all over the mountain. Even with its very pronounced tip rocker, the M-Pro 98 W cuts through bumps and crud at high speeds and remains easily maneuverable. Testers noted that the same tip shape also inspired confidence when skiing a longer-length model of the ski. While the directional shape and rocker profile might make it more attractive to hard charging skiers wanting to ride big-mountain terrain, once the ski was at speed, the stiffness allowed all testers to feel confident. 

K2 Reckoner 102 and Women's Reckoner 102 W

• Waist Width: 102 mm
• Weight (177cm): 1900 g
• Best for: Park rats looking to explore the mountain.

Read POWDER's full review of the K2 Reckoner 102/W here.

All-mountain freestyle skis really have one design goal: be fun. For 24/25, the much-loved K2 Reckoner 102/102W (same ski, different topsheet) gets a total overhaul all in the name of improving pop, playfulness, and agility. The new ski has a similar footprint and profile to the previous model, with a smidge more camber underfoot and a slightly stiffer midsection, but with softer tips and tails.

The updated construction translates to a ski with a little more oomph underfoot than the previous Reckoner 102. It has a bit more energy edge to edge when carving on groomers and a little more bite too. Overall, the ski is more surfy feeling than edgy. It isn’t a powerful ski for charging on groomers but skied with a light touch it’s still quite rewarding on hardpack. It's excellent on jumps, rails, and sidehits, and really fun to rip through moguls and other variable snow. If you're a park skier who's excited to explore the rest of the mountain, and jib everything in sight, the Reckoner 102/102W might want to be your next ski of choice.

Nordica Enforcer 104 and Women's Santa Ana 102

• Waist Width: 104/102 mm
• Weight (173cm): 1960 g
• Best for: Hard-charging ex-racers.

Read POWDER's full review of the Nordica Enforcer 104 and women's Nordica Santa Ana 102 here.

Nordica’s new Enforcer 104 has an insatiable appetite for speed and offers one of the quietest, dampest rides on the mountain. With a heavy focus on hard-snow, high-speed inbounds ripping, it’s not particularly playful, but if your legs can handle the Enforcer’s ability to plow through absolutely everything in your path, it really unleashes a new way to ski your favorite runs. On hardpack, the edge grip is astounding. The ski’s double metal-laminate and wood/elastomer core construction eats up inconsistencies in the snow with absolutely zero chatter. A big part of the redesign involved adding some tail rocker, bridging the gap between the nearly twin-tipped Enforcer Free and the old flat-tailed Enforcer 100.

There’s a reason the Santa Ana is one of Nordica’s most popular ski lines. The widest in the line but not wide enough to be considered a true powder ski, the Santa Ana 102 moves between conditions as easily as it does across the mountain, and takes many of the Enforcer 104's design elements into play. Combining that same wood/elastomer core with a single sheet of titanal, the Santa Ana 102 makes a strong case as the perfect daily women's ski for the Rockies and West Coast.

Völkl M7 Mantra and Women's Völkl Secret 96

• Waist Width: 96 mm
• Weight (184cm): 2090 g
• Best for: High speed crud busting.

Read POWDER's full review of the Völkl M7 Mantra and women's Völkl Secret 96 here.

Völkl’s seventh version of the venerable Mantra and Secret 96 (same ski, different topsheet) doesn’t change its tune. It’s a further evolution and refinement of the ski that has been the gold standard for high-performance all mountain skiing, no matter what snow conditions lie underfoot. The new ski features Völkl’s 4-Radius Drive sidecut technology, which adjusts the turn radius to various sections of the ski to optimize edge grip and stability.

While definitely not for everyone, the new M7 Mantra does what old Mantras have done, only better–lay trenches on groomers, blast through chunky off-piste snow, and perform like a finely-tuned sports car under the boots of a powerful skier.

Völkl Blaze 104

• Waist Width: 104 mm
• Weight (186cm): 1780 g
• Best for: A one-ski quiver for resort and backcountry use.

Read POWDER's full review of the Völkl Blaze 104 here.

As an excellent one-ski-quiver option for both touring and the resort, Völkl’s Blaze 104 is equally at home chasing chalky steeps inbounds as it is deep in the mountains skipping through powder meadows. At under 1800 grams, it would make an excellent ski to mount a pair of hybrid bindings for split resort/touring use, or to use as a full-time backcountry freeride ski. 

Thanks to subtle but long rocker lines in the tip and tail, the Blaze 104 is shockingly maneuverable in tight terrain and happy making short radius turns in trees, chutes, or anywhere without a lot of room to spare. While still a very directional ski, with a massive tip and a much smaller tail, it feels a lot more modern and “fun” than the Völkls of yesteryear. If you’re a skier looking for a single ski to ride all season long, the Blaze 104 would be a very safe bet.

Salomon Départ 1.0

• Waist Width: 104 mm
• Weight (180cm): 1740 g
• Best for: Turning the whole mountain into your playground.

Read POWDER's full review of the Salomon Départ 1.0 here.

Salomon hasn't made a freestyle ski for several years, but returns to the game for 24/25 with their long-awaited Départ 1.0–one of the most unique shapes of the season. It looks like anything but a traditional twin-tipped park ski, and that’s because athletes and designers Sami Ortlieb and Nico Vuignier didn’t want a spin-to-win comp stick. 

Instead, they recognize that freestyle skiing is turning back into all-mountain skiing, and returning to its pre-terrain park roots. They wanted a ski to express their creativity anywhere there’s snow on the ground (or not). With deep rocker lines, a pointy directional tip shape, and a core built specifically to generate as much pop as possible, the Départ promises to help you unleash your inner freestyler anywhere on the hill. It floats, it pivots, it carves, it’s weird, and most of all, it’s really fun.

Rossignol Super Black Ops 98

• Waist Width: 98 mm
• Weight (182cm): 2000 g
• Best for: Non-stop edge grip when rallying hardpack.

Read POWDER's full review of the Rossignol Super Black Ops 98 here.

It's not a new model for 2025, but Rossignol’s Super Black Ops 98 is still exciting. The ski is a precisely-tuned sports car that bridges the gap between all-mountain jibbing and on-piste carving performance. The ridiculous 80s-inspired topsheet (ignore it or embrace it!) hints at the skis intentions–embracing your inner hotdogger and having fun all over the mountain. 

But this isn’t your average dad ski. Mixing rock-solid edge grip with a damp, smooth ride, the Super Black Ops 98 beckons for speed and style no matter the terrain or conditions. It’s been around for a few years now, but we hope it doesn’t go anywhere anytime soon.

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