All ski names require a certain measure of decoding, as they tend to include cryptic abbreviations that contain vital clues as to the model’s performance potential. Such is the case with Kästle’s use of “HP” in the model names in its FX category. In the FX generation...
The Kästle FX106 HP is an unabashed powder ski. It’s built to float and drift on a lightweight chassis that does without the two Titanal laminates that characterized the BMX105 HP that preceded it. Nearly 50cm of its running surface is rockered (320mm in the front,...
The Kästle DX85 wasn’t so much a new ski last year as it was a re-christening of a pre-existing one, the 2019 LX85. As Kästle’s de facto women’s ski, the LX85 was a perennial Power Pick among Women’s All-Mountain East skis, probably the most competitive segment...
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...
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’...
