What skiers say...
High performance skis from large factories may be good, but they're designed by and for someone else -- not specifically for you. Wagner Customs are designed with your collaboration, for your weight, strength, agility, aggressiveness and goals. Here's what some real-world skiers have to say about the Wagner Custom experience.
Name: Herb M.
Home Town: Bethel, Maine
Age: 35
Favorite Ski area: The Arlberg Region, Austria
Wagner Custom ski specs: T180cm length, tip waist-tail: 140mm-109mm-128mm, 24m sidecut radius
Topsheet graphic: Custom American Flag
Describe your perfect ski day: Wake up- it's dumping. Walk to the lifts- still dumping. Catch up with some friends in the powder line. It's gonna be knee, no, waist deep up there! Push, chase, and leapfrog your buddies all the way back to the lift, going just a tad harder and faster than you would normally on a non-powder day. Repeat this until you either collapse or have to bail to show up for work.
Why do your Wagner Custom skis make sense: My Wagners are hand made for me. That quality translates into more confidence to charge hard and less fatigue at the end of the day. I have felt my skills go up one whole notch with my customs and I've also noticed the same from others who have switched to Wagners. Durability is also very important to me. Wagners are bomber. They last easily twice as long as production skis in my experience.
Name: Travis Wolfe
Home Town: Ophir, Colorado
Age: 23
Favorite Ski area: Telluride, Colorado
Wagner Custom ski specs: 184cm length, tip-waist-tail: 135mm-100mm-121mm, 23m sidecut radius
Topsheet graphic: Custom Wolfe
Describe your perfect ski day: A beautiful blue sky day after a fat dump, when my friends and I find the freshies in the trees. The powder is bottlomless and the trees sparkle. Each turn feels like you're floating on a white fluffy cloud.
Why do your Wagner Custom skis make sense: My skis are made for what I do and respond to my skiing senses like they are part of me. I can charge cliffs, bomb thru trees, tear over rocks, and yet they still perform with grace.
Name: Melissa V
Home Town: Telluride, CO
Age: 26
Favorite Ski area: Whistler/Blackcomb
Wagner Custom ski specs: 167cm length, tip-waist-tail: 129mm-96mm-117mm, 19m sidecut radius
Topsheet graphic: Custom purple powder
Describe your perfect ski day: A private helicopter on a bluebird Alaskan morning with just me, my boy, and our guide Seth Morrison. A four-course gourmet lunch stop at an alpine chalet in the Swiss Alps. Finishing it all off with snowcat laps in the alpenglow-orange powder basins above the fjords of the Lingen Alps in Norway as the sun sets into the ocean. Duh!
Why do your Wagner Custom skis make sense: For me it's as simple as this... it's GAME ON! They fit. They rip. They "get" me. They are purple with yellow snowflakes for heavens sake!
Name: Sven B
Home Town: Durango, Colorado
Age: 39
Favorite Ski area: Swiss Alps
Wagner Custom ski specs: 185cm length, tip-waist-tail: 161mm-124mm-141mm, 23m sidecut radius
Topsheet graphic: Aqua Fizz
Describe your perfect ski day: A day puking so hard that you can't see another soul let alone a track. A day when the spindrift settles in over your tracks and they are gone the next time you make a lap. A day where the trees are your only point of reference and when you find yourself alone but never lonely.
Why do your Wagner Custom skis make sense: Wagner builds skis that feel like an extension of my body. Its like a ski that thinks for me. It floats when I need to surface and bites on the wind packed chalk found in my favorite zones. It's the best of every ski you have ever had all wrapped into one package unlike any other. It the brush to paint my canvas of life.
Name: Michelle CS
Home Town: Christchurch, NZ
Age: 31
Favorite Ski area: Craigieburn Range, New Zealand
Wagner Custom ski specs: 174cm length, tip-waist-tail: 137-106-126, 21m sidecut radius
Topsheet graphic: Custom kiwi
Describe your perfect ski day: If I had the ability to be in two different hemispheres on the same day in late November, mmm, Silverton, deep and dry Colorado powder in the morning and then corn on Ardies Peak, Mt Olympus, NZ.
Why do your Wagner Custom skis make sense: As soon as I stepped into my Wagners I had found my true soul mate. Skis that feel like a true extension of your body, why did I wait so long? I needed a ski that would be the ski I would take everywhere; Wagner created that ski!
Name: AJ Linnell
Home Town: Victor, Idaho
Age: 33
Favorite Ski area: Garnet Canyon in the Tetons
Wagner Custom ski specs: 169cm length, Nose-Waist-Tail: 302-256-298, 10m radius.
Topsheet graphic: Fire Red
Describe your perfect ski day: Sunrise on a bluebird day. A crew of good friends moving fast. Firm powder in the couloir--solid cramponing and sweet turns. Rollicking back down the canyon, and a fast skate across the lake. Budweiser on the tailgate.
Why do your Wagner Custom skis make sense: My board is pretty ideal--stiff, snappy, light. Long enough to surf in powder, but not too long for tight spots.