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What’s New and Trending for 2016 (As Seen in West)

WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. — FasterSkier walked the floor of the 2015 Yellowstone Ski Festival Expo and found some interesting gear hidden behind those piles of stickers and schwag. Mohair-skin skis, carbon-soled boots and athlete-inspired clothing were common themes among the exhibitors. Take a look through our gallery below.

Podiumwear sales rep Kyia Anderson shows off one of the custom ski suits that Jessie Diggins helped design. A portion of the sales goes toward supporting Diggins.

BeFAST Sportgear, based in St. Paul, Minn., showed off their American spirit with this trendy neck gaiter.

Borah Teamwear showed off its new one-piece suits. This suit, made for Alaska Pacific University, uses an innovative seamless design that builds the suit as a whole rather than a sewn-together top and bottom.

New for 2015, Salomon’s Carbon Skate Lab features a ThinPly carbon construction and three different base setups, cold, wet and universal.

Rossignol’s R-Skin is built on the popular Rossignol Delta chassis and is perfect for a quick, worry free and wax-free ski.

Madshus introduced the Terrasonic IntelliGrip. A skin ski featuring a graduated mohair base, it’s great to grab and go. (Photo: Madshus)

Fischer’s Twin Skin joined the plethora of new mohair skin skis. The offset skins free up the ski in the gliding phase, and the 70-percent mohair to 30-percent poly mixed skin is replaceable. The skin length varies depending on ski length.

Alpina Sports is bringing their footwear line to the U.S. The line includes performance light hiking shoes, casual footwear and hiking boots.

Fischer’s new Speedmax skate boot uses a full carbon sole and reduced padding in the liner to cut weight for a maximized performance.

The Alpine Elite 2.0 skate boot features a one-piece carbon sole and a proprietary carbon weave along the edges of the carbon heel counter to eliminate any hot spots.

Yoko’s 9100 Kikkan Randall Edition poles feature a 100-percent CNT (carbon nano-technology) shaft with a design inspired by Kikkan’s style. The YXG Kikkan signature gloves include three models featuring different levels of wind stopper, plus a separate race line inspired by Randall’s international-racing success.

The Nano Carbon Race 100 UHM Poles by Madshus feature a new black-on-black graphic and heat-moldable pole straps.

December 1, 2015
Fischer Launches Twin Skin

(Press release)

Fischer has announced the launch of the Twin Skin. Building on their collection of performance waxless options, Fischer offers the Twin Skin as a complimentary classic ski designed to kick in variable conditions without sacrificing glide.

The Twin Skin is built on Fischer’s venerable RCR ski, a populist model made to maximize performance at a reasonable price point.

“The Twin Skin is a ski made for versatile conditions. Purpose-cut cavities for two separate Mohair strips mean it glides easily and kicks solidly, especially in transformed snow and conditions that cause track glazing,” explained Chris Hall, director of racing services for Fischer USA.

Those mohair cavities are deeply set at the beginning of the kick zone, meaning less mohair strip is exposed, less gliding friction is created. The cavities are also shallower under the ball of the foot which makes the Mohair thicker toward the rear of the ski mimicking a well waxed classic ski where a thin layer of wax at the beginning of the wax pocket paired with a thicker layer under foot facilitates kick and glide.

The result is a ski that meets a wide set of criteria for a driven classic skier. The Twin Skin claims a spot as a skier’s go-to ski for conditions that elude grip in a mechanical (crown) pattern. For those with fewer hours for prepping skis, the Twin Skin aims to be a time-saving daily driver that demands kick without sacrificing ski feel.

MSRP: $425.00

September 25, 2015

Tag: mohair

What’s New and Trending for 2016 (As Seen in West)

Fischer Launches Twin Skin