The Scott Crusade Alpine Ski glides through pow, finesses the crud, and carves like a champ. Scott’s Venturi tip and tail employ concave channels to provide surprising float and crud performance off piste. On hardpack the Crusade performs closer to how its dimensions would suggest, railing high speed carves with the best of them. The wood core is both lively and forgiving and helps the Crusade smooth out any terrain.
Bottom Line: The Scott Crusade Alpine Ski delivers silky smooth performance in any condition.
I picked up a pair of the 179’s last year and they were a blast right out of the box. The Crusade is my second pair (first were the 07’-08’ Missions) of Scott skis and I have become a huge fan. The Crusade is amazing in varied snow conditions, a lot of fun in fresh powder from few inches to thigh high, stable at speed and very much a Wasatch Mt. ski so don’t expect east coast ice edges.
These skis pretty much rip all over the mountain. I'm 5-11 170lb, and ski the 179 with Fritschi Freerides. On hard snow, and groomers, they're super fun to carve, the aggressive sidecut lets you really lay down GS, Slalom style turns.. a little unstable at Super G speeds. In the crud they're great, floaty and quick. The fat shovel allows you to stay on top, rip fast turns, and quickly smear to dump speed. I skied them on some knarly breakable crud, and they were just fat enough to keep me on top. Haven't skied them in the super deep yet, but am guessing they would be ok in that too. Overall super fun, great all around ski.
