There’s every indication that Fischer’s fortunes in the American Alpine ski market are ascending. Given my professional preoccupations, I naturally look at a brand through the prism of its products, like a fortuneteller inspecting tea leaves. I like what I read in...
Considering how recently Kohlberg & Co acquired K2, it’s remarkable how quickly the brand overturned almost its entire Alpine line-up. There are six new Mindbenders for men and an equal allotment of Mindbender Alliance models for the ladies. To complete the...
Every mainstream ski brand can trace its roots to a founder, a visionary who nursed a fledgling idea to life. If we’re aware of a brand’s history (a big if), we’ll associate the brand’s formative years with the sepia-toned photos of its first factory. But new brands...
Kästle busted a bunch of moves this off-season, but lest the lede get lost in the shuffle, the biggest by far was the creation of a new FX series. Since its inception, the off-trail oriented FX models have mimicked many aspects of the more successful MX series’...
Overview Kästle isn’t what it used to be, and that’s a good thing. Not to dis the current Kästle’s ancestry, but Kästles of yore could be clumped in two camps: race skis it took a god like Zurbriggen to bend, and kooky creations that should have been euthanized in...
