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First Look: Dynastar M-Tour 108

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Gavin Hess

Dynastar M-Tour 108: the brand's widest "free-touring" ski.

Dynastar M-Tour 108: the brand's widest "free-touring" ski.

  For a few years now, my neighbor (who also happens to be a favorite ski and gear banter partner) and I have been lusting over a wider touring ski from Dynastar. All this started with a season of this neighbor touring on a pair of M-Free 108s, which had some amazing powder touring attributes…

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  1. Peter H

    Any updated thoughts on these skis? Have you taken them out and what do you think? I am a directional skier mostly but like to make all kinds of turn shapes/styles. Love the Navis, retiring the backland 107 which I never loved but certainly got the job done and was so dang light. Looking for a new ski. Your Draco review was less than inspiring… interested to know if the M tour has surprised you in a good way or skis as you predicted in your “first look”?

    1. Gavin Hess

      Hey Peter,

      I did most of my early season skiing on the mtour 108 paired with the scarpa Quattro pro. After struggling to get beyond my low expectations last spring (only a handful of days with zero g peaks or backland xtds), I figured a fresh season and some more supportive boots with more aggressive forward lean made another go at posing as a strong directional skier seem worth a shot.

      Big picture, they are still quite unforgiving and require a diligent pilot to enjoy, but I have had some awesome runs on them and feel like for a well practiced directional skier in sufficiently beefy boots, they have merit and fill an interesting niche. They are a blast in open terrain and with sufficient speed and confidence in tighter spots, but I have been getting my butt kicked at times navigating low tide tight spots in the trees and such.

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