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Please see our copyright and disclaimer notice page. My husband, Dick, and I answered this question hundreds of times last season, practically whenever we shared a lift with a stranger at any one of the 17 areas we skied from New England to California. The skis in question are Elan SCXs, or parabolic skis. That is what has come from playing with our new skis. We thought we had reached our top level of proficiency in skiing about 20 years ago.