The Escalator "PERSPECTIVE"

The Escalator "PERSPECTIVE"

162cm
$879.00
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The Escalator "PERSPECTIVE"

The Escalator

Perspective
Oskar Enander x J Collab
$879.00
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On snow guarantee

Ride your new skis up to 5 days and if you’re not convinced they’re the best skis you’ve ever ridden you can return them for a full refund.

Same day shipping

All orders placed by 3pm EST on weekdays ship out the same day. Orders placed after 3pm or on weekends ship out the next business day.

2 year warranty

J skis are backed by an industry leading 2-year warranty against manufacturing defects

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

The Escalator Awards

The Artwork

Oskar Enander x J Collab

200 MadeReleased August 1, 2026

If you’re a skier, you've seen Oskar Enander's photography your whole life. You just didn’t know his name.

Oskar is a color-blind Swedish photographer based in Engelberg, Switzerland. He dropped out of engineering school in 1999 to go ski bum in Chamonix and never looked back. His first submission to Powder Magazine won him Photo of the Year. He's won it three times since, the only photographer in history to do it. He's shot for Patagonia, The North Face, and every major ski publication on earth. Because he's color-blind, he works entirely in light, shadow, and contrast, which is exactly why his images hit so differently.

We stacked a carefully selected collection of Oskar's snowy environment photos down the entire length of the ski. Individually the shots are beautiful, but as a group they tell a story of his amazing perspective capturing our unique surroundings.

For the base, we used a beautiful untracked powder field letting its natural lines and shades of flowing snow tell the story tip to tail. Like an empty canvas waiting for first tracks.

We made only 200 pairs of this Limited Edition on The Escalator, our favorite ski for shredding from the resort to backcountry powder stashes. Each pair is hand-signed and numbered by J Lev. Order yours now before they sell out. Perspective changes everything.

See Oskar's incredible photographs here

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.

#JEscalatorSki

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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