Super fun and poppy in all sorts of conditions. As expected with a ski like this, they definitely get tossed a bit while maching through crud, but overall they handle everything with authority. They float nice in the deep stuff, turn on a dime in trees, hold on groomers, and I don't know what it is about them but it's incredibly easy to stomp landings on these, they just set right down effortlessly. Only complaint is that they ski quite short, so 182 being the biggest size is a bit of a setback, 192 and I'd definitely still own these. Also the graphic on the OG bacons was the best ski graphic ever imo

I was skeptical at first of the whole hype surrounding hestra and this glove in particular. I finally sacked up and dropped the money on these gloves and i still feel like an idiot for not doing it sooner, these are far and away the best gloves I have ever owned. Not once have my fingers gotten cold, not once have my hands gotten wet, not once have i gotten snow down through the cuff, and I've never hurt my knuckles when hitting branches in the trees. They also have enough of a low profile fit that it's not an ordeal trying to get my jacket zipped up. They fit bigger than the Fall Line and Boronowski's, finger length is similar but they're wider and hence warmer. The fleece inside is super soft and warm and the leather is incredibly supple.

I balmed them right out of the package but even before treatment the leather was incredibly soft and just gets softer with more use. I've owned these for over a year and there is no damage anywhere on them, they're very well made and designed, recommended to everyone

marker puts you in a real fix here, dunno if it was on purpose but the dukes are designed so that there's not much brake arm sticking into the snow, making it so when you bend the stock brakes out to 130 they hardly hit the snow at all, making you suckered into spending 60 bucks on these, they should just let you choose which one you want with the bindings, you're paying enough for those anyway...