The Kästle DX85 isn’t so much a new ski as as re-christening of a pre-existing one, the 2019 LX85. As the Austrian brand’s de facto women’s ski, the LX85 was a perennial Power Pick among Women’s All-Mountain East skis, probably the most...
Head overhauled its Joy collection, eliminating the Great Joy and Wild Joy to clear the way for the Kore 99 W and Kore 93 W, respectively. All the remaining Joys – Total, Super, Pure and Easy – were run through the make-over machine. New molds were cut...
K2’s new Mindbender 88 Ti Alliance doesn’t share the same tool as the unisex Mindbender 99 Ti, but it uses an identical construction. The key ingredient in all the Mindbender Ti models, whether for men or women, is slingshot-shaped yoke of Titanal called...
The new DX85 W from Kästle is essentially last year’s LX85 W with the Titanal laminates removed in order to reach the more affordable price of $699. Any time one takes metal out of a ski, it will lose a large degree of torsional rigidity and a considerable dose...
The new Salomon QST Lux 92 didn’t fall off our Recommended list due to lack of merit, but lack of test data. The little we gleaned from the lasses was reinforced by the scores from our lads, who skied the identical QST 92. Of all the returning models we...
