Update: Don’t Buy K2 Skis!
These suckers delaminated after just a few weekends of use. One or two days after they first started to delam, a whole chunk of base material fell away right next to the blown edge. I thought I’d get away with skiing them for the rest of season, but the damage spiraled downhill so quickly that I decided to send them back to K2 before it got any worse. When K2 got ahold of them, they just couldn’t believe that the edge separated before the base material started to fall off and assumed that must have hit something really hard. To my recollection, I never hit anything and the specific order of events was 1) delam and 2) base falls off. In any event, they only lasted like 12 days (tops) and now their collecting dust in the K2 warehouse. I’m done with K2 skis, as this is the second pair I’ve owned with lasted less than 20 days on snow. Not sure what the hell I’m gonna do with Hardside Custom skis – maybe REI will take them back, because I surely have no use for them now.