JOURNAL

Tom Wallisch on urban roots, creative progression, and sustaining a ski career from rails to big mountains. A deep dive into mind, body, and style.

Photographer Pete McBride teams up with Wagner Skis to turn Colorado River imagery into skis that raise awareness and support river conservation.

From X Games to Alaska lines, Maggie Voisin shares how resilience, healing, and joy shaped her skiing—and why fun always comes first.

Mali Noyes skied all 93 lines in The Chuting Gallery in just 47 days. Hear how Nordic roots, grit, and intuition fueled an epic feat.

Discover Crested Butte—Colorado’s steepest terrain, great food, lively après, and the best places to ski, eat, stay, and drink.

26-year-old Parkin Costain grew up in Whitefish as a skiing prodigy. For the last decade, he has been pushing big-mountain skiing with a high-speed, swift-footed style in the heaviest, most technical terrain around.

Discover how artist Charlotte Coughlin turns nature, color, and playful pattern-making into bold ski topsheets for Wagner Custom.

Discover the story behind Aspen Mountain’s new Hero’s terrain and how reclaimed Engelmann spruce became Wagner’s limited-edition Hero Spruce custom skis.

Here are all the best apres ski stretches to help you be the best skier possible, from spinning on a bike to using the roller ball and scheduling a massage.

Give the best gift in the world to the skier in your life: a pair of Wagner Custom Skis. Every ski we precision-craft is dedicated to an individual skier’s profile which means our skis make skiing easier and more fun—and what gift could be better than that?

Boulder-based artist Andrew Barker draws inspiration from the Rockies, wildlife, and his global experiences to create vivid, geometric interpretations of nature. From cranes and nuthatches to big horned sheep, his designs capture the colors, patterns, and stories of the natural world.

We at Wagner Custom firmly believe that every skier is best-served by a ski that’s made exactly for them. Thus when it comes to women’s skis, we don’t build women-specific skis as a category, but we customize each ski to each woman.

Walking into a ski shop and being confronted with a dizzying array of skis can be overwhelming. Get the knowledge you need to make an informed decision about skis (and not feel like an idiot).

Telluride artist Brooke Einbender has a mind that’s humming with ideas—ideas that come alive in her new kaleidoscopic topsheets that seem to shape-shift the more you look at them. We caught up with her in our hometown to find out what makes her buzz.

It’s time to start getting in shape for skiing—and our fitness guru Jake Hutchinson knows exactly how to get you there. After creating our 6-week high-intensity program to get people mountain-ready fast, he’s back with a refined 9–12-week plan to build strength, improve form, and prevent injury for the ski season ahead.

The truth is there are a lot of good skis out there, wrapped in cellophane and priced competitively on the ski shop rack. With all these offerings, you might be wondering why you should invest in full custom skis.