POINTLESS PLEASURES

CONSIDER THE TURN.The bare-bones, no-frills, functional purpose of turning a ski is to control where you are going, but also, and perhaps more importantly, to manage your speed.

Now imagine you had retractable, tail-mounted snow-combs that you could lower by degrees to drag in the snow. You wouldn’t need turns to slow you down at all.

By deploying your tail brakes with a wireless