The Atomic Vantage 86 C isn’t in a fair fight when asked to compete against the best (and most expensive) skis in the hotly competitive All-Mountain East genre. The Vantage 86 C isn’t trying to be the best ski; it’s trying – and largely succeeding – at being the best...
For 2020, Atomic elected to simplify its collection by folding the former Vantage X series into the Vantage (sans X) family. By dint of this winnowing process, the 2019 Vantage X 86 CTi lost its “C,” it’s “X” and $67 off its MSRP when...
Salomon has a history of making skis that are light and quick edge to edge, so when the Lighter is Better trend in consumer goods took hold of the public imagination, Salomon was all over it. Like a lot of other brands, it worked with carbon and other fibers –...
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...
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...
