We don’t normally report on Pipe & Park models. Suffice it to say, there are far more credible sources on the subject. But as its name suggests, the Blend isn’t a one-trick pony. It’s a park-pipe-pow-whatever pony, with an all-terrain geometry that travels well...
We admit that when we saw that SKIING magazine had awarded Line’s Sick Day 95 as their 2014 Ski of the Year, we wondered it there weren’t a ganja dispensary in the cafeteria of the rag’s Boulder, Colorado offices. We still wouldn’t classify it as a world-beater, but...
For the Finesse skier who skis most of the time in an upright stance, the issue with this category is that it can take too much effort to tilt the ski to a high edge angle where it will ride a clean edge instead of smudging its way through a perpetual drift. The Line...
The new FX95 HP is best appreciated by understanding where it fits into the Kästle line-up. Skiers who want optimal hard snow performance in a wider ski belong on the MX 98; skiers who want a softer ski that responds to a lighter touch and sinks readily into a short...
There’s no way the MX98 should ski as well as it does, which is just about perfectly. First of all, there’s its baseline, which is as traditional as turkey at Thanksgiving in a category overrun with tofu-loving, New Age rockered tips and tails. How can it smear...
