The Beast 98 takes the downhill performance of last year’s award-winning Meteorite ski and shaves 250 grams of weight; the result is an incredibly versatile ski that can be relied upon both in- and out-of-bounds. A combination of dense ash and lighter poplar wood in the core provides stiffness and stability while reducing weight and adding pop. Dynafit also employs carbon fiber in the tips to help dampen the ski and reduce vibrations through variable terrain. One tester noted that it excelled in technical terrain: “Shredded the entire resort like a beast—fittingly. The techier the terrain, the better… loved skiing the chutes and bumps on this thing.”