 At Alice Brigham we take ski testing really seriously and this involves two different ski tests. The first one is done early in the season. Everything's put through its paces and compared we make the decisions what we're going to stock. Later on in the season we bring staff out to Austria. Here the staff test all the skis that we've decided to go in the range. This means we can make sure we've made all the correct decisions but it also means that when you come into any of our stores the staff there can give you personal advice. They know exactly how the ski skis because they've been on them. So this Atomic Backland 95 is 95 millimeters under foot. It has an 18 meter radius on it. It has rocker in the tip and rocker in the tail. It also has something which we call horizon tick. That's a horizontal rocker in the tip on those deeper powder days to give you more flotation out in that fun stuff. In this Backland 95 we've changed the tail of the ski. We've given it a bit of a narrower pin tail and more rocker and that's allowing you to release the turn easier when you've got some deeper snow conditions and really adds a fun flavour to the ski to me. I personally prefer it with the shift because I'm putting a lot of power down through the ski. The ski is a strong ski with a poplar and Karuba wood core. It also has carbon fibre backbone in it as well so you can really put a lot of power down and we know from Atomic we have great edge grip and performance with a very lightweight ski so it's working all over the mountain whatever touring conditions you decide to go out in. The comments that we get it's a really confidence building ski no matter what snow surface you're on you can ski as hard or as cautious as you want and it gives you the confidence to go into something steeper something more challenging and the other comments so that's from a hard snow perspective and from a soft snow perspective the fun that that pin tail the release of the ski is so easy it flows so well now and you can't stuff the tip the tip stays above the snow so you've just got the biggest smile when that deep snow day does come. Hi I'm Simon from the Four Williams store I've got a pearly this morning I went for a tour in the backland 95 had a really great morning it's really light with the pin binding on as well super easy to use and a great kind of skin up really just yeah easy it doesn't really matter if you've never been touring before if you've done quite a lot of it it's it works really well and then on the ski back down it skis way beyond this price and it's it's really kind of engaging on the edge you can get a nice carve in it really kind of floaty yeah just a lot of fun like we've got a lot of snow out here at the minute and yeah just really playful I think with the backland 95 being that kind of middle between the 85 and the 107 it's it's a really versatile size you could go for a full pin binding on it or you could go for something like the shift it's it's very capable yeah you could do a really long day touring on it or kind of ski a bit more off-piece and have a great time