2025 Blizzard Black Pearl 94

One of the best-selling ski series of all time, the Blizzard Black Pearls have held up quite the reputation amongst a heavily competitive market of women’s all-mountain skis season after season. Continuing this trend, Blizzard decided to shake things up for the 2025 season and offer three different widths, each with new construction and shape features, while fully maintaining the undeniable appeal that such a wide audience of skiers are drawn to. It’s a challenge to top these skis, as they deliver high-performance, all-mountain capabilities in a dynamic, well-balanced manner. Accessible to so many skiers of all ability levels, the Black Pearl 94 becomes the wider of the three models and soft snow enthusiasts who still want to carve with power on hardpack will gravitate to this new option.

We’ve seen Blizzard carry forth the same successful construction features in the Black Pearl series year after year and given its massive following, there didn’t seem to be a need for change. Following the release of the new Sheeva/Rustler line last year, Blizzard clearly took notes from its popularity and decided to apply similar technology to the Black Pearl line. Fluxform technology, which made its grand debut last season, is now incorporated into the build, designed to work in perfect combination with the Trueblend wood core. Consisting of central stringers of dense beech wood and outer portions of poplar, this unique use of wood and specific placement allows for total optimization of flex throughout the length of the ski. With greater stiffness underfoot and softer, more maneuverable flex in the tip and tail, the feeling is smooth and consistent throughout. Below this wood core, we get a carbon-infused pre-preg fiberglass laminate, which adds a noticeable amount of energy and pop to the flex. On top of the wood core, they’ve added a central strip of the Flux metal, significantly boosting the spine of the ski and bringing great vibration dampening qualities. An additional layer of fiberglass followed by two outer portions of metal along the edges, this is where we see the different use of the Fluxform technology from the Sheeva/Rustler construction. The metal in the Black Pearl 94 is used on two different levels, rather than one, and does a phenomenal job working in sync with the beech stringers, providing both dampening qualities and powerful edge grip.

We also see changes to the shape here, with significantly more rocker in both the tips and tails, plus a flatter profile underfoot. The floatiest of the Black Pearls with a 94 mm waist width, the 170 cm length generates a 15.5-meter turn radius, which is super versatile and allows the skier to decide between short, round turns and wider, longer turns. The main difference we see in the shape is in the tail, with less of a directional feel. With that, though it may lose some effective edge and power, it feels turnier and more energetic, which has proven to be a good thing. Tester Mar Kuhnel loved her time on the new Black Pearl 94, saying “I really enjoyed this ski - it was all the things that I like, stable at speed making larger turns, easy to make short radius turns with good energy coming out of the turn. Nimble and light weight feeling, I bet it would be great in the trees!”

After years of welcoming back the tried-and-true Black Pearl line, the 2025 season introduces a new and improved iteration that incorporates successful attributes from its freeride sister series and a more energetic, refined feel. With these changes, there is no doubt that we will continue to see its fan base grow, continuing to stand atop the best of the best women’s all-mountain skis.