Voile Hyper Charger Ski

Thanks for your question, Eli. While there are limits to every ski, Voile is one of the more durable brands that specialize in backcountry skiing. Unless you find yourself regularly doing 30-foot cliffs to awful landings, the Super Charger should hold up to hard skiing. Please let us know if you have any other questions!

I've murdered these things in some pretty disgusting ski mountaineering conditions including 4,000' of chicken heads from the summit of Mt. Hood. I also did some laps off a kicker with them (totally not designed for this) on a city snow day. Thought I would snap them in half but they're good as new. I'd say they're pretty dang durable.

Thanks for your question, John. Stereotypically, Voile skis are more apt to have fun than a comparable ski from a different brand. The Hyper Charger is Voile's offering aimed at folks who want to arc big turns down the fall line. While it won't be nearly as "fun" as the V8, it will be on the more playful side for this type of ski. Everyone has a different definition of fun, however, for what you've described the Hyper Charger seems like good option. Please let us know if you have any other questions!

Hi Carol,

To compare Dynafit Stoke and the Voile Hyper Charger Womens, the Dynafit Stoke is a less responsive ski with a longer turn radius. In contrast, the Voile Hyper Charger Women is a playful and turny ski that is more forgiving. If you would like to speak in more detail, reach out to us at help@skimo.co!

Hey Doug, thanks for reaching out! The Hyper Chargers are a great replacement for the Helio 105 as far as ski dimensions go, but the two skis have fairly different on-snow feel. The short answer is that what the Hyper Charger lacks in top-end speed and edging power, it makes up for in versatility and easy skiing. If you love the way the Helio 105 wants to point downhill and descend with great haste, then the Hyper Charger isn't the ski for you -- but if you want a ski that can make short-radius turns as well as blasting down the fall line, then it's a great option. The Hyper Charger is definitely the most straight-line-happy, hard-charging ski of the Voile line, but at the end of the day it is still in the Voile family: easy-turning in most conditions, powder-loving, happy to go with the flow of your skiing and the snow available. It'd be a solid corn ski (though a little wider than needed) that could still deal with some icy hardpack in the early mornings, and straight-pull length on the 185cm is 184.5cm.

Hey Rob, thanks for reaching out! Both the AlpTracks 106 and Hyper Charger ski variable chop and hard snow quite well by the standard of wide-body powder skis, so you've got two great options. The main difference in feel that we detect between the two is that the AlpTracks can be skied from a variety of stances (front seat, back seat, perfectly balanced, slightly off balance) while the Hyper Charger really likes a more frontseat, aggressive, "run-and-gun" stance. Some of this comes down to mount point (Alp Tracks more forward-mounted than Hyper Charger), some to sidecut, and some to differential stiffness between tip and tail. The Hyper Charger is also a pinch damper and more amicable on refrozen chunder, while the Alp Tracks gets high marks for its energetic, "poppy" feel.

Coming from the Dhaulagiri, you would find both skis to be quite different, but the flatter tail of the Hyper Charger may be more your speed if you liked the Dhaulagiri's early-rise tip/flat-tailed profile. You might also consider skiing the 177cm/178cm length in the newer skis; I'm your same height/weight and find the 177/178 to be plenty of ski for everything except for, well, January in the Wasatch. :-)

Hope that helps -- don't hesitate to reach out to help@skimo.co for a more in-depth response!