Hagan Ski Mountaineering Blog

A HIGH PRECISION RACING MACHINE.

The Ultra 65 is a proven 100% race ski with super edge grip for consistent carving. HAGAN's proprietary micro-ABS sidewalls mean superior durability, dampening and vibration filtering for superior downhill performance. No other race ski has it. Even at the highest speed and ultimate edge angles this incredibly light ski dices its way securely through the snow. The edge grip is brutally good, the entire ski dynamic and full of spark.

I don't read French (my German is fair), but I know how to use web translators. According to the inter web, this is what the French Montagnes Magazine said about the Hagan Boost 94: (excerpts, click the link below to read the entire review in French)

• The Big Surprise of this Season
• excellent stability even at high speeds
• A model that is not unlike the behaviour of the Salomon Explore 95 but with greater rigidity.
• This ski becomes our favourite of this 2020 range
• slips very clearly in the first place of these tests.
• enormous carbon-filled shovel erases all the roughness of the terrain 
• unparalleled driving comfort in deep or trafficked snow
• turns are easy to make

Read more below.

Tips for getting the best performance from Hagan hybrid climbing skins:

Tip 3. If it is quite cold and you have snow crystals on the skins, wipe them across your thigh a time or two to brush off the snow/ice. Because they aren't traditional glue, that quite effectively removes the snow (without sticking to your pants.)

With these tips, you will really enjoy the handling advantages and not needing to store them with plastic foils - ever!

Skintrack recently posted a brief review of the Hagan Ultra 82. 

And... "good impressions 🙂"
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"It shines in variable conditions, hard pack, crust and wind affected snowpack - basically, any time when conditions get less than ideal."

Very interesting, if somewhat obvious, research showing the disadvantage of overly wide skis.

Mike Whelan is doing a great video series on skiing all the snowy state high points from Maine to California. Wyoming's Gannett Peak is the 23rd, and hardest peak summited so far in his Skiing States project, an original goal started in 1998.

Spring is the best time for ski touring – corn snow, sunshine and warm temps.

Spring does require a little extra skin care to avoid the dreaded "glomping." Here are some skin care tips:

Hagan Ski USA is proud to sponsor two iconic, local (to us) races – the 5 Peaks and the Imperial Challenge. Sign up, see us at the races, and maybe win a set of Hagan Skis.

Alpine Touring, Ski Touring, Randonee, Backcountry Skiing, Ski Mountaineering, Skimo. What should we call this sport we love so much?

The Super Grip is quite different from normal crampons, including our own crampons. The Super Grip has a much larger surface contact area, but is not as deep. It is also “universal” in that it will work with almost any bindings, and any skis up to 100mm wide. The Super Grip crampon has many uses...

Skinning should be banned. 

Here's why...

Last spring Blister Gear Reviews put some miles on theHagan Core 12 binding. Some of their thoughts:

• I felt more confident skiing hard downhill on it than on any other binding in this test.
• The only binding in this test with independently adjustable vertical and lateral release values in the heel.
• The heel risers of this binding are easily the best in the group.
• Its overall performance makes it my favorite binding of the group.