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Scaling Colorado’s fourteeners necessitates lightweight skis. But light is often synonymous with flimsy, and anything less than bombproof gets mangled by the aptly named Rockies. Leave it to Crested

Butte’s Romp to engineer a solution: the featherweight yet resilient Leif 94. With a ski-anything 94mm waist and an agile sidecut, the Leif executes precise turns when warranted. $949; rompskis.com