They are intended for glacier travel with attachable skins that will help the ascent. Performance on steeps or deep powder is not what it's designed for. It's more of a tool to get you down from basecamp quickly instead of having to hike down after an ascent.

Well, our Senior engineer at our factory has 40 years experience building skis. However, it will cost around $2500 for him to tool a mold to mass produce these. So, before we commit to that I wanted to try to build a pair just to test the shape, sidecut, and tip/tail height. I was thinking about get...

Hey guys, I'm new to this forum, and I'm looking for some help to build a set of skis. I'm from Puyallup, WA and I'm starting a ski mountaineering company. We have a ski that we need to build to test it's shape before it goes into larger production at a small factory. There's an image below with mor...

Hey guys I'm new here but it is really interesting what you are doing. I'm thinking about building a ski press, but need to look more into what it'll cost me. Merry Christmas!

That is a great idea. I'm going to try that.

Were you doing anything crazy on them when they broke?