The FX95 provides an instructive case study on the virtues of Titanal laminates in an All-Mountain ski. The FX95 has none; its beefier bro, the FX95 HP, does, and therein lies the lesson. The presence of metal imbues a ski with extra stability in general and three...
Despite the fact they issue from the same factory under the same brand name and measure a mere 1mm apart in waist width, the FX85 is in many ways virtually the opposite ski from the MX84. Kästle takes pains to point how just how little of the cambered mid-section of...
Every All-Mountain East ski is an amalgam of on- and off-trail traits, but usually one genetic strain is more dominant than the other. In the case of the K2 Pinnacle 88, the essential orientation is off-piste, with only its narrower footprint and a ribbon of metal...
We don’t normally review skis that aim to sell for $399 for two main reasons: they’re built as much to hit a price point as match a performance profile, and we don’t often find them at the test venues we frequent. If we do get the chance to try one out, like the...
I’ve never met Pep Fujas, the big mountain athlete whose fingerprints are reputed to be all over the Marksman. No question he’s a jaw-dropping exhibitionist, capable of descents I can’t imagine even as I’m watching them on film. I’m equally certain his anything-goes...
