The Escalator "THE JOY OF SKIING 4" Bob Ross x J Collab

The Escalator "THE JOY OF SKIING 4" Bob Ross x J Collab

162cm
$849.00
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The Escalator "THE JOY OF SKIING 4" Bob Ross x J Collab

The Escalator

The Joy of Skiing 4
Bob Ross x J Collab
$849.00
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Waist Width: 102mm

J Says Best For: Light Powder / Soft Groomers / Touring / Backcountry / Off-Piste

Personality

Soft & Playful Happy Medium Stiff & Aggressive

Conditions

50% All Mountain 50% Powder

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The Artwork

Bob Ross x J Collab

450 MadeReleased August 1, 2025

Don't call it a comeback... Bob's been here for years!

This piece came from season eight, episode 13 when Bob's talking about living in Alaska and painting the northern lights. This is by far my favorite Bob Ross ski collab to date because of the way he fills the sky with the northern lights makes this piece look so different from any other Bob Ross work. The painting is beautiful, literally popping off the ski!

Bob uses his legendary "wet-on-wet" oil painting technique where he applies new layers of oil paint on top of still-wet layers. This method allows him to complete entire paintings in 30 minutes using brushes and painting knives, transforming simple colored smudges into intricate landscapes in seconds. This northern lights piece required some tricky work extending the aurora up the tip and blending them with the reflected lights in the lake at the tail, but Fank channeled his inner Bob making it look like a breeze!

Some fun facts about Bob... He spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force stationed in Alaska, where he first saw the snow and mountains that became his trademark subjects. He took his first art class at the Anchorage U.S.O. club and believed everyone had artistic talent. His philosophy was simple and has become one of his most famous sayings inspiring millions of others, "There are no mistakes; just happy accidents."

This is our 4th Bob Ross collaboration. Each time people tell me, "oh, I missed it. Are there any more?" And I have to tell them, sorry they’re sold out. Remember once a Limited Edition ski sells out, it’s gone forever! I'm only building 450 of these, which is less than I’ve made in the past so order now to get them before they're gone!

The Escalator

132 – 102 – 123

The narrowest ski in our Explore Collection is a solid, lighter weight ski for easy up and easy down from resort hot laps to backcountry adventures

This lighter weight, yet uniquely solid ski is built to do what you wanna do, whether that's sunrises on the skin track or spending all of your time riding lifts. The secret ingredient is a combination of a light Aspen core paired with our classic downhill ski construction for a Goldilocks feel that seamlessly blends stability with weight savings. Its 102mm waist slides perfectly into every skier’s quiver as a do-it-all tool that can lay down quick, snappy carves in bounds as effortlessly as it surfs wide open pow fields. We gave it a twin-tip shape for skiing backward and increased maneuverability in tight situations like chutes or trees. A subtle tail notch provides reliable skin clip retention for fast transitions. Add our pre-cut skins that perfectly fit the skis, and you're ready to go touring right out of the box! "The Escalator" will keep your legs fresher longer, so you can shred stronger from sunrise to last chair.

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This ski is kind of a big deal!
Lightweight, slashy and nimble. It pivots on a dime while maintaining a respectable level of stability. The fairly aggressive sidecut lends itself to a mean carve, yet you can still pivot, slash and schmear the tails. It’s a great combination for today’s creative freeride skier.

— Freeskier Magazine

The Finest Materials

Aspen Construction

By selling these skis factory directly to you, we can invest more money into using the highest quality materials possible for a game-changing level of premium performance & durability.

Full Height Sidewalls

Maximum impact resistant & vibration dampening
We’re using super durable, high impact absorbing Ultra High Molecular Weight (UHMW) polyethylene for our sidewalls. This is the same material we use on our ski's bases. It’s very impact resistant and since it’s full height, it also absorbs more vibration like using a longer spring in your car’s suspension. Take a metal pipe and hit it against a rock, then do the same with a piece of plastic. The metal vibrates through to your bones & the plastic absorbs the vibration for you. That’s the difference of having full height plastic shock absorbing sidewalls over your edges or not. We’re cutting the sides of the sidewalls to a 10* angle, with a nice step at the bottom for easy tuning like race skis.

SPECS

Length162cm169cm176cm182cm188cm
Dimensions 132 – 102 – 123 132 – 102 – 123 132 – 102 – 123 132 – 102 – 123 132 – 102 – 123
Sidecut Radius14.4m15.8m17.1m18.6m20.4m
Weight Per Ski1560g1640g1720g1785g1840g
Camber3.0mm3.0mm3.5mm3.5mm3.5mm
Effective Edge1070mm1295mm1350mm1410mm1470mm
Tip / Tail Height70 / 35mm70 / 35mm70 / 35mm70 / 35mm70 / 35mm
Tip / Tail Length330 / 200mm330 / 200mm330 / 200mm330 / 200mm330 / 200mm
Running Length1090mm1160mm1230mm1290mm1350mm
Boot From Center-6.7cm-7.0cm-7.2cm-7.5cm-7.7cm
Boot From Tail743mm775mm807mm835mm863mm
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