A Guide to Ski Kits
Our beloved, biomaterial-equipped Ski Kits are back! With bindings, skins, and essentials handpicked by our FOW community, the perfect platform for deep winter awaits - and it's available with a 20% bundling discount, a free custom binding mount, and more.
From mechanized missions to multiday traverses, your own kit selection depends on your unique relationship to the mountains. Read our guide below for the perfect fit.
Inbounds Kits
Taos, NM. FOW: Sean Horner // Photo: @burqueanabecca
While our hearts beckon us to remote glades and couloirs, our latest refinements in biomaterial construction have felt nothing short of incredible in the resort.
Why? Simply put, the damping characteristics achieved by our latest Algal Wall sidewall make for a construction that offers unprecedented stability and speed for its weight. If this sounds too good to be true, just spend a little time reading our customer reviews - or just stalk Sean Horner on Instagram!
Inbounds kits represent our most reliable alpine setups, featuring Marker bindings with a wide range of DIN adjustment for any flavor of mechanized access.
The Sidecountry Slayer is available in a 13 DIN or 11 DIN configuration, depending on your fit and skiing style. Select a ski pairing and DIN range and you're good to go!
50-50
"Quiver killer" may be a tired old cliche, but our 50-50 setups make a strong case to revive the label. A 50-50 kit is one that you can use day in and day out for resort, backcountry, human powered, or mechanized backcountry adventures. Alpine safety meets tech toe touring efficiency. Whatever winter brings your way, you can ski it on a 50-50 setup.
For this kind of mixed access, do-it-all skiing, we've chosen our favorite hybrid binding - the Duke PT.
More shredding, less tinkering.
In a world with more hybrid options than ever before, the Duke PT has consistently gotten the highest marks in our books. Why? It hits that previously elusive blend of alpine-worthy descending capability, full DIN certification, and genuine usability.
When combined, these elements make it a welcome companion for all day tours and resort blasting alike. In addition to its smoothly operating brakes and heel risers, we're huge fans of the Duke's seamlessly removable toe piece, which reduces touring weight on the way up.
The Duke of All Trades kit is available in both 11 DIN and 13 DIN configurations. 11 DIN pictured above.
Backcountry
Looking to optimize for efficient, human-powered movement from the valley floor to the alpine? You're looking for a pure backcountry setup.
Our team has tested just about every tech binding out there - from the most mainstream offerings to the weird and wild boutique options. So why do we all keep gravitating back to ATK for all of our human-powered setups? Simply put, they offer an uncanny blend of low weight and mindblowing skiing capability that in our experience, other binding makers just cant touch. You may just have to ski it to believe it.
Meet the Raider/Freeraider series. ATK's artfully CNC'd and anodized aluminum components are machined to incredibly tight tolerances with an impressive strength to weight ratio, delivering an extra dash of confidence when chasing remote lines. Plus, who doesn't love a little anodized aluminum bling?
Our Raider of the Last Line series caters to hard charging, weight conscious skiers across DIN ranges of 11, 13, and 15. In addition to a higher max DIN, the Freeraider 15 comes stock with ATK's Freeride Spacer, which provides additional underfoot contact and support for gold standard skiing performance. Bonus points for an automatically locking brake for even faster transitions.
À La Carte Options
See a kit you like, but want to customize further? Send us a note and we'll build you a custom kit!
Need to find the right ski for your new kit? Get an expert recommendation based on your own style, geography, and skiing aspirations.