Gear: G3 Cake Skis

January 25th, 2014 • BY

This Goldilocks ski hits the sweet spot: It’s light enough for backcountry touring, but plowy enough to deliver a giggle-good time on the downhill—making it just right for women who seek maximum fun out of the least possible weight.

The G3 Cake 100 ($636) achieves that balance by sandwiching a sheet of Titanal aluminum between triaxial fiberglass and a wood core made of lightweight poplar and paulowna (which is unusually strong for its weight). At 3.4 pounds per ski, it’s not the lightest touring option out there. But it’s no cement block, either. It tours ably enough for half-day forays in Colorado’s Park Range and kept pace on 13-mile epics in Wyoming’s Beartooth Mountains.

Once the skins come off, the G3 Cake punches above its weight class. It feels snappy in untracked powder, and slices through sun crust with authority. It’s also at home in tight trees, thanks to its early rise tip and tail and pronounced sidecut (132/100/123) that make the Cake adept at short-radius turns.

It’s capable enough in-bounds, though resort-specific conditions such as hardpack and chunder aren’t where this ski shows its best side. When weight is no object, we’d choose a heftier plank for more flotation and assertive performance in challenging snow. But when you’re fueling the uphill and the down, you’ll love the Cake on both legs of the journey. The G3 Cake ski is a daily driver for girls who earn their turns.

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Kelly Bastone

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Once upon a time, contributor Kelly Bastone lived in the Big City of Denver, Colorado, where she visited the mountains as much as she could. Then she wised up and flipped the arrangement: Ten years ago, she moved to Steamboat Springs, where she skis (resort, skate, and backcountry), hikes, mountain bikes, fly-fishes--and occasionally ventures forth from her beautiful mountain valley to visit cities worldwide. A freelance writer,— More about this author →