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Powder skis are fat skis designed to lift you up so you can get through deep snow--like really deep, best-day-ever snow. To encourage float and easy steering, powder skis feature wide waists (ranging from 106-112mm), more tip and tail rocker than you’ll find in all-mountain skis, and lightweight materials to help them stay above the fray.

Not every skier needs a fat powder ski in their quiver, but if you’re lucky enough to frequent resorts that measure snowfall in feet rather than inches, dive into this list of 2023’s best unisex powder skis to find the right tool to maximize any powder day.

Testing powder skis sounds like it would be a lot of fun (my mom is always asking how I get to call it work) and to be fair, ripping through deep snow on all of the best products for the next ski season is a treat; but it's not always easy to find the right conditions. While Sun Valley provided ample vertical and world-class grooming for testing our other ski categories during SKI’s 2023 gear test, we didn't time the storm right this year. That's part of what makes powder days so special--they are rare, often unpredictable, and can be short-lived.

Luckily, we were able to follow up SKI Test with some additional powder ski testing in Snowbird, Alta, and Brighton, coupled with a weekend of deep days at Copper Mountain in Colorado. When the storms came through, our testers were ready to assess each ski’s performance across six skills categories, with Flotation and Playfulness being the most important in this category. According to our testers, a group of industry professionals with years of gear testing experience to their names, the following 16 skis are the best powder skis of 2023.

Go deep: Learn more about SKI's testing process

Age: 39 | Height: 5'10'' | Weight: 190 lbs.

Larsen owns and operates Salt Lake City's Lifthouse ski shop with his brother, Zac Larsen. Larsen practically grew up in the shop, a family-owned business, and spent his free time chasing gates on the Snowbird Ski Team. He has been gear tester for SKI for more than a decade.

Age: 39 | Height: 5'6'' | Weight: 138 lbs

Pesce lives in Whitman, Mass., and calls the ski areas of Vermont and New Hampshire home. She's an expert skier with an aggressive style that she applies to any and all type of terrain and snow conditions. Safe to say that as the head ski buyer for Boston Ski & Tennis in Newton, Mass., she knows a thing or two about skis--how they're built, and how they perform.

Age: 23 | Height: 5'6'' | Weight: 130 lbs

Gibbons has spent 22 of his 23 years on this earth on skis. The son of Sturtevants Sports' head buyer, Tracy Gibbons, Otto has basically lived in the ski shop his whole life and has worked there for the past seven years as a hardgoods buyer. If he's not in the shop, he's ripping laps at Washington's Crystal Mountain.

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