Freeride backcountry skis
Product 2021
Woman, Man
The Dynastar M-Tour 99 is the successor to the Mythic, which for several seasons made many ski tourers happy, especially the wide ones (97mm particularly). The Dynastar M-Tour 99 is just a tad wider, 99MM at the waist. The brand took a risk of changing the character and type of ski initiated by the Mythic.
The Dynastar M-Tour 99 has a long side cut, the front and rear rockers are a little less pronounced, it’s more like the start of a rocker that extends into a long tip. In deep snow you discover and enjoy a ski that tracks its course and you can easily accelerate. It is stable as soon as the speed increases. This is due to the long side cut, its tail and its stable directional effect; you feel all this as your speed increases. Mounds of snow and uneven terrain are well flattened by the tip that works hard but doesn’t push you off balance.
Pivoting the Dynastar M-Tour 99 is easy, the width helps to lift the ski out. Even if we try skiing with it using angle, being less flat, carving, spreading your feet a bit, the ski reacts, nothing to worry about. The Dynastar provides stability and a lot less playful than its predecessor, but you feel safe no matter what speed you are going.
As soon as you ski on hardpack or groomed snow the ski becomes more demanding. The great thing about the Mythic was its accessibility, it was an intuitive ski. You didn’t need to make an effort for it to react. It was simple and fluid. Here the Dynastar M-Tour 99’s fluidity is achieved by top pressure, speed and your angle on the hardpack.
If you want to play with the Dynastar M-Tour 99’s performance you need angle, don’t release the flex and push your knees forward to obtain a very good turn. Be careful, once the speed increases you can’t really change its direction if you are off balance because otherwise by opening the turn the tail becomes very directive. One of the good points is that turn initiation is fast, the tip does its job.
The Dynastar M-Tour 99 needs presence, you can ski two ways: traditional skidding turns or the “modern” angled turn. For the latter you need to be carving, technique is required, lower your centre of gravity, push and don’t let it run away with you by keeping pressure on the shins. The Dynastar M-Tour 99 can be skied with stiff boots and more flex.
The ski is irreproachable in terms of stability at high speed. You can put it crossways, you can lengthen the skid, no matter what angle you choose; it’s dependable.
Going from short to long turns the radius variations aren’t easy. When it’s in one mode it works well yet short turns aren’t its strong point: you get a combination of skidding and carving (carving entry and skidding exit). On wide turns it works on its initial radius.
The tip is well designed that enables you to go uphill in deep snow. It’s well adapted because it pushes les snow than the Mythic. The ski’s light weight doesn’t affect the ski’s hold, reactivity and performance.
The Dynastar M-Tour 99 is designed for good skiers who are confident about their technique to be able to exploit it fully on hard snow. In deep snow you can ski it fast in total safety. Its performance level is higher than the previous Dynastar Mystic in uneven and less lifting snow conditions yet is less playful.
Choose the size carefully to be able to take full advantage of it.
We used this equipment over a long period of time
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