There are three top-line reasons why women should entrust their precious time in powder to K2 and its flagship women’s ski, the FulLUVit 95 Ti. (BTW, the Ti is new to its name but not to its composition.) First, as one of the principal popularizers of rocker and the fat skis to which tip and tail rocker is obligatorily applied, K2’s wheelhouse is building wide skis for the off-piste adventurer. Second, K2 was one of the first brands to develop a complete line of women’s skis and involve recreational female skiers in their product development and testing process through the K2 Women’s Alliance, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this season.
The third and most important reason for hopping on a FulLUVit 95 Ti is that no other ski makes off-trail skiing any easier without surrendering stability on groomers. K2 has never forgotten that the whole purpose of creating a wide ski is to make skiing snow in its natural state easier. If the primary quality you want in your next all-terrain ski is ease of operation, you’ve found your ski.
“These were awesome,” raves Margit from The Sport Loft as prelude to a this breathless strand of plaudits: “Playful, responsive, maneuverable, stable, agile, easy to the edge, holds a carve,” cramming the final note, “NICE!” into the corner of her test card. Because of its lightweight construction and crisp edge, the FulLUVit 95 Ti skis narrower than it measures, yet it has all the flotation of a Big Mountain model. “Soft longitudinally but still holds surprisingly well on edge,” notes Stephanie Humes from Jan’s. One reason the FulLUVit 95 Ti is so easy to bow into a comfortable arc is every K2 women’s model is that each size correlates shape, flex, materials and mass to achieve optimum performance for women. Liz Elling from Gravity Sports calls it “an amazing all-around, versatile ski,” adding what one might call the “K2 Addendum, “and does it all with ease.”
For the way it simplifies off-trail skiing for women of (nearly) all abilities, we award the FulLUVit 95 Ti a Silver Skier Selection.