While other new school skis are experimenting with odd shapes and multiple sidecuts, the K2 Hellbent offers a somewhat traditional, wide narrow wide shape to get you home safely. If you ve been sitting on the reverse camber fence, use this ski to jump off. The significant tip and tail rocker will allow you to float through powder, crud and slush, and will also let you get jibby with the best of them. This is the ski that Pep Fujas uses to land zero spin cliff drops into bottomless pow. From Snowbird to Stowe you will now be able to add butters, wheelies and slashes to your vocabulary. Last season the K2 Hellbent was sold out just about everywhere. For 2008/2009 it returns unchanged with a slightly different graphic. -J. Barrell, Gear Guru

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