The stuff of dreams
The Buyer's Guide 2024 intro
- Author: Davide Marta
- Photographer: Nicola Damonte
Aside from the fact that you’ve actually got more than one pair, jealously guarded in either the basement, garage or closet. They just don’t get what a new pair of skis means.
Because they don’t have the same way of seeing things, the same need to travel, the same fascination for the unknown. They don’t understand, and you can’t blame them for that.
They have never known the feeling of holding a pair of sticks in your hands — that seem to have been asleep for a hundred years awaiting their knight in shining armor — and feel that jolt of electricity that transports you to a pristine mountainside, where everything is perfect, where
you carve out endless perfect turns. They can’t imagine just how indispensable those skis are for feeding that inner child with the cold air in our face like those first days on the snow that we will never, ever forget.
So let them say it.
Because they don’t know that a pair of skis is
the stuff that dreams are made of.
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