When skiers think of off-piste terrain, the first, and often only, thing they contemplate is powder. This despite the fact that uncut powder is the least likely off-trail condition to encounter. Far more prevalent are moguls, tree skiing and of course, crud, the...
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...
The new 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...
