Line changed the popular Bacon this year, and our jury couldn’t be more divided on the subject. “Too squirrelly,” one tester cautions, while another proclaims the new Bacon “a full-fledged, go-anywhere, do-anything ski.” “Not for adults,” sniffed another Negative...
We don’t normally report on Pipe & Park models. Suffice it to say, there are far 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 travels well...
We admit that when we saw that SKIING magazine had awarded Line’s Sick Day 95 as their 2014 Ski of the Year, we wondered it there weren’t a ganja dispensary in the cafeteria of the rag’s Boulder, Colorado offices. We still wouldn’t classify it as a world-beater, but...
For the Finesse skier who skis most of the time in an upright stance, the issue with this category is that it can take too much effort to tilt the ski to a high edge angle where it will ride a clean edge instead of smudging its way through a perpetual drift. The Line...
Softer than margarine in a bucket, the Soulmate 86 is meant to nurse an entry-level skier – or entry-level adult – into a state of sufficient confidence that they can putter around groomed terrain, no problem. A short turn specialist, as it should be, the Soulmate 86...
