We regret that we didn’t get a single card, digital or print, on the 90 Eight W this year, for the addition of 3D.Glass surely has shifted this ski’s personality from blah to brilliant. Every ski touched by this simple yet effective layer of glass has substantially...
If some ski model census taker added up all the iterations of the Völkl Mantra sold since its inception, the sum should show the Mantra to be the most popular All-Mountain West ski of the last decade. Over the unusually long arc of its existence, the Mantra has...
Like French cooking, the genius of the Camox doesn’t lie in its basic ingredients but it how they all come together. (Want proof: try making a baguette.) The Camox is a poplar core, fiberglass ski with Kevlar and carbon stringers to give it strength and, in the...
At Realskiers we don’t normally report on Pipe & Park models. Suffice it to say, there are 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...
The FX95 provides an instructive case study on the virtues of Titanal laminates in an All-Mountain ski. The FX95 has none; its beefier bro, the FX95 HP, does, and therein lies the lesson. The presence of metal imbues a ski with extra stability in general and three...
