Al's Ski Equipment Barn - '10 K2 Hardside Backside Adventure Skis

'10 K2 Hardside Backside Adventure Skis

Total Retail Value: $875.00
Our Price Starting At: $699.99

K2 redesigned the tele line into the Backside Adventure Series. The most popular ski in the line is the K2 HardSide Skis. At 98mm in the waist it is going to be versatile in all terrain. The K2 Hardside ski is 98mm underfoot, making it the narrowest ski built with the Hybritech sidewall construction. A few short years ago, it would have been considered a powder ski, and it certainly won't disappoint on the deep days. However, it's designed for skiers who's off piste playgrounds consist more of cut up crud and firm snow than bottomless powder, so we gave it slight shovel rocker for versatility, and powerful metal laminate construction for precision, stability and edge hold.

Features:
- Hybritech Sidewall Metal Laminate
- Aspen/Paulownia
- 5/15 Tip Rocker Design
- 14/13 Progressive Sidecut
- Powder Tip
- Tip and Tail Skin Attachment Holes
- Flat/Notched Tail

'10 K2 Hardside Backside Adventure Skis

Dimensions: 131-98-119
Turn Radius: 23m @ 181cm

Hybritech Sidewall
Hybritech blends the race room performance of sidewalls underfoot with the ease and forgiveness of cap construction in the tip and tail. Offered exclusively on the Side series. Hybritech makes skis strong, accurate and powerful underfoot, while maintaining smooth initiation and easy exits from turns.

Core Tech
K2's Adventure skis use an Aspen/Paulownia blend core. Lower-density Aspen and even lighter-weight Paulownia allow us to reduce the weight that results from the added surface area of wider skis. In addition, the Bio Core is 15% lighter than the fir/aspen blend traditional in our all-mountain skis.

Tip and Tail Holes
All Adventure skis come with holes drilled in the tip and tail that facilitate building a quick, solid rescue sled, or the construction of a ski anchor. The holes come with plugs that can be removed with a simple twist of a flat head screwdriver. These holes also function as skin attachment points for our new skins.

Rocker
All SIDE skis, and select BACK models come with varying degrees of shovel rocker, but normal cambered tails. Shovel rocker improves the agility of big skis by enabling them to initiate quickly, and easily adjust turn shape. The normal cambered tail makes it easy to scrub speed in powder, and increases versatility by providing better accuracy and hard snow performance than a fully rockered ski.

K2 Harside Product Videos

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If you would like to add poles and/or bindings to this ski at a substantial discount, please continue below. Mounting service is available at no charge. Alternatively, just click the button on the right to the add this ski to your cart as is.

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Bindings Salomon's heritage has always been in performance bindings. With the introduction of the Z-concept, we improve lateral rigidity, maintain optimum shock absorption, and decrease the overall weight of the system through the use of space-age carbon injected components.

Optional Service: Binding Mounting For you convenience, we can mount the bindings in this package for you. We will need your height and weight below only if you are buying boots to go with these skis. By selecting this optional service you are indicating that you have read and agree with our binding mounting terms and conditions. Bindings will still need to have final adjustment done with your boots by a certified ski technician for your safety. Please be sure to select your boot size before check out.

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