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DPS Skis 2025: First Look

The Return of the Wailer

Constantly churning out some of our favorite high-performance skis for soft snow and touring, DPS Skis in 2025 delivers even more to be a fan of. This year, DPS drops an updated Pagoda Tour series and brings back a familiar name. Check out the new goods for the upcoming year.

What’s New

Wailer is a name we’ve seen from DPS for years. Formerly the moniker of the men’s all-mountain resort constructions, the Wailer returns with a fresh mold and new construction. The Wailer is offered in a wider Wailer 107, all-mountain Wailer 100, and snappy Wailer 90.

The Wailers have a full poplar core with carbon stringers rather than the full carbon sheets DPS is known for. They use their RP shaping with all the skis coming with a 15-meter turn radius. Each ski comes in a full-size run with unisex sizing. Top it off with fresh pastels, and these skis provide the high-quality build and durability from DPS we love, with a slightly lower price point and a more easygoing ride.

The DPS Wailer skis out in the wild, with the Wailer 90 on the left and Wailer 100 on the right.

We also get a completely revamped Pagoda Tour collection. DPS uses its carbon construction here with two full-width sheets of carbon—this year, with a flax twist. Flax is interwoven into the carbon sheets to add dampening and stability with hardly any weight penalty. The new collection comes with five new skis: Pagoda Tour 90, 94, 100, 105, and 112. The 90 and 94 come with DPS’s directional shape, and the wider models feature the same molds as their Kaizen counterparts. So 105 is in the directional category, and 100 and 112 are in the more playful and rockered category.

Other Highlights

All the Kaizen skis return unchanged.

All the more playful, “freestyle” oriented Koalas return unchanged.

The various Powderworks skis all return unchanged as well.

On a production note, DPS brings all their skis to being manufactured in the States. That means a more local supply chain and greater oversight over quality control.

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