Kit that is designed for skiing soft, powder snow and should also cope well in the variable conditions you encounter when skiing away from the groomed slopes
Black Diamond has teamed up with Mike Barney, an Avalanche Professional, to create a series of educational videos around the basics of snow safety. Mike’s a Black Diamond athlete, has been ski guiding for the last two decades and spends around nine months per year taking clients skiing in potentially Read more…
Well serviced skis are a thing of beauty to use. They slide, turn and grip much better and significantly enhance your time on snow. Unfortunately most skiers don’t get to experience this sensation very often. Hire skis tend not to be maintained as well as they should. Ski owners generally Read more…
The M-Line is Dynastar’s Mountain sport range of skis, for skiers looking to spend as much time as possible away from the groomed runs. It covers ski touring, ski mountaineering, freeride charging, a bit of all-mountain and backcountry freestyle. The M-Pro’s are the directional freeride weapons, while the M-Free models Read more…
Lange has a new range of ski touring boots for winter 21/22, and SkiKitInfo’s been thoroughly testing the XT3 Tour Pro to give you and in-depth test and review. Here’s the full video, so you can see just what we think of this new tour offering from Lange. Content created Read more…
The Line Skis Blade and Blade W are superb, fun skis and a real break from the norm. Line has smashed the smile-ometer with the Blade women’s and men’s planks. Unique construction ideas and Line’s infectiously fun approach to skiing brings a smile to your face. The Blade and Blade W really Read more…
The Dalbello Quantum touring boots, comprised of three models for winter 20/21, is exceptional. They’ve utilised a new shell construction technology, whereby the shell around the foot is created in two halves and bonded together. Two-part clog, bonded together This two-part construction of the clog allows much stiffer materials to Read more…
Scott dedicates a lot of their attention to ski touring products, producing some phenomenal skis, boots and lightweight avalanche airbags. Here, we want to focus on their popular Superguide range, following the addition of the wide, light and ski-performance orientated Superguide Freetour ski. Content created for you At SkiKitInfo, we’re Read more…
K2’s top of the range helmets are their Diversion MIPS for men and Virtue MIPS for women, which were both new for winter 2021. They share the same construction and multi-sport certification, but are available in different colours and size ranges. SkiKitInfo.com got to test the Diversion MIPS, to let Read more…
SkiKitInfo.com has the world’s most comprehensive guide to Atomic Backland touring skis, for everything from ski-mo racing to epic powder days. We look at design, construction, strengths, weaknesses, boot and binding compatibility and who each model will work best for and more. We’re not paid by the brands to feature Read more…
SkiKitInfo.com’s got all you need to know about Rossignol’s new breed of freeride skis, called Blackops, to replace their incredibly successful S-7 series. We’re not paid by the brands to feature their kit and don’t receive any commission or income from them for reviewing their products. They don’t have any Read more…
Salomon has a brand new range of all-mountain and freeride skis, called Stance. The Stance range is quite different to other all-mountain and freeride skis from Salomon and SkiKitInfo’s here with all you need to know about these new toys. We’re not paid by the brands to feature their kit Read more…
Faction is growing rapidly and in 2018 sold 30,000 pairs of skis into 35 countries. The skis are handmade in Europe and they test them in Verbier, Switzerland. They’ve got a lot of new and exciting stuff for this season, including another ace movie, clothing, new skis and a monoski. Read more…
For winter 19/20, German technophiles Völkl introduce a wider Mantra and Secret, Kendo/Kenja get upgrades, there’s a new Deacon all-mountain line-up, the Women’s Flair piste ski range expands and the Racetiger RC and SC models change. FREERIDE SKIS For 18-19 Völkl made a bold move and changed the legendary Mantra Read more…
Rossignol has exciting new piste skis for men and women for winter 19/20, to help you ‘find your flow’. Black Ops skis gives us a glimpse at the future of Rossignol’s freeride range. The Alltrack Pro freeride touring boots have also received development love and are great for those after Read more…
Head has a fair amount of change for the 19/20 season. The main theme coming out of the new kit feels to be LYT tech. They’ve already had this in the V range of skis but it’s a focus across various products for 19/20. Joy skis All of the women’s Read more…
Atomic has new gear for the performance piste skier as well as a new Savor range for beginner and intermediate skiers. The Vantage X all-mountain range will be replaced for winter 19/20. The Backland touring boot gets an overhaul. Atomic Backland ski touring boot Atomic is making significant changes to Read more…
K2 has a new freeride and all-mountain range of skis and boots for winter 19/20. There’s a new Anthem range for women, to replace the Luv skis and boots. Mindbender / Mindbender Alliance skis For winter 19/20, K2 has a new range of freeride skis, called Mindbender for men and Read more…
Scott Sports may not have a huge amount of new products for winter 19/20, but the new products are worthy of attention. Female skiers benefit as Scott has introduced a female model of the Slight 93 and Scrapper 105. The E1 electronic avalanche airbag range gets two new models, tripling Read more…
Armada welcomes back the VJJ freeride ski for winter 19/20, as part of the ARW range. The Zero series of innovation lab skis will be more widely available. The Shift free-tour binding gets the Armada treatment and goes black. There are some changes to ARV/ARW skis and new construction for Read more…
SKIS Salomon has made construction changes to some of the QST freeride skis for winter 19/20 along with introducing a new range of wide body piste skis called S/Force. New S/Pro boots build on the S/Max boot technology. S/Force wide body piste skis The new S/Force range of skis for Read more…