When I showed up at the DPS mothership, the first thing they gave me was a can of something to drink. I didn’t recognize the brand. A few minutes later, my eyes were as big as pie plates, and I was nodding my head energetically, saying, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! I didn’t blink for half an hour. When I got home, I typed everything down as fast as I could and took a hard nap.
But let me back up.
In the spring of ’25, we reviewed the DPS CFL 105 and 100. For that review, I wanted to talk to the designers about the skis. But they didn’t have time, and in retrospect, I’m glad we didn’t talk. I skied the skis and wrote what we thought without their input. They got back to me after that review was published, and that’s when I got dosed on the carbon Kool-Aid.
