The Escalator "GO HIGHER" Mountain Gazette x J Collab Limited Edition Ski

The Escalator "GO HIGHER" Mountain Gazette x J Collab Limited Edition Ski

188cm
Sale price  $599.00 Regular price  $849.00
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The Escalator "GO HIGHER" Mountain Gazette x J Collab Limited Edition Ski

The Escalator

Go Higher
Mountain Gazette x J Collab
Sale price  $599.00 Regular price  $849.00
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2 year warranty

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Waist Width: 102mm

J Says Best For: Light Powder / Soft Groomers / Touring / Backcountry / Off-Piste

Personality

Soft & Playful Happy Medium Stiff & Aggressive

Conditions

50% All Mountain 50% Powder

The Escalator Awards

The Artwork

Mountain Gazette x J Collab

250 MadeReleased August 1, 2024

Alright, let's take a trip back to 1966. Mountain Gazette had just hit the scene in Colorado, capturing the spirit of the outdoor world and counter-culture vibes. It wasn't just a magazine; it was a blend of wild adventure stories, captivating poetry, and jaw-dropping photos. This was the real deal for mountain lovers!

Despite its early success, Mountain Gazette hit a rough patch and stopped printing in 1979. It became legendary, almost mythical, for those who remembered its raw and honest take on mountain life.

Fast forward to 2020. My friend Mike Rogge, a skier and journalist with a deep love for the mountains, recognized the magic of the old Gazette and decided it was time for a comeback. Mike didn’t just want to revive it; he wanted to revolutionize print in the process, all while staying true to the mag’s roots.

Mike focused on long-form journalism that dove deep, backed it up with incredible photography, and printed it on gigantic, mind-blowing 11x17-inch paper! You’ve never seen a mag like this before! The response? Pure stoke. Old fans were hyped, and a whole new generation fell in love with print again. MG proved that print ain’t dead!

We created this ski graphic with Mike handpicking Mountain Gazette’s most iconic covers to lay across the top of the skis. Then, we applied their famous saying across the base, adding fun chairlift characters drawn by MG’s artist, Mike Handzlik. We even included the MRG single chair as a nod to Mike’s eastern roots.

I made only 250 pairs of this new Limited Edition graphic on “The Escalator” ski and hand-signed and numbered each pair. Print ain’t dead, but these skis won’t last long, so order your pair today before they sell out!

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The Escalator

132 – 102 – 123

The narrowest ski in our Explore Collection is a solid, lighter weight ski for easy up and easy down from resort hot laps to backcountry adventures

This lighter weight, yet uniquely solid ski is built to do what you wanna do, whether that's sunrises on the skin track or spending all of your time riding lifts. The secret ingredient is a combination of a light Aspen core paired with our classic downhill ski construction for a Goldilocks feel that seamlessly blends stability with weight savings. Its 102mm waist slides perfectly into every skier’s quiver as a do-it-all tool that can lay down quick, snappy carves in bounds as effortlessly as it surfs wide open pow fields. We gave it a twin-tip shape for skiing backward and increased maneuverability in tight situations like chutes or trees. A subtle tail notch provides reliable skin clip retention for fast transitions. Add our pre-cut skins that perfectly fit the skis, and you're ready to go touring right out of the box! "The Escalator" will keep your legs fresher longer, so you can shred stronger from sunrise to last chair.

#JEscalatorSki

This ski is kind of a big deal!
Lightweight, slashy and nimble. It pivots on a dime while maintaining a respectable level of stability. The fairly aggressive sidecut lends itself to a mean carve, yet you can still pivot, slash and schmear the tails. It’s a great combination for today’s creative freeride skier.

— Freeskier Magazine

The Finest Materials

Aspen Construction

By selling these skis factory directly to you, we can invest more money into using the highest quality materials possible for a game-changing level of premium performance & durability.

Full Height Sidewalls

Maximum impact resistant & vibration dampening
We’re using super durable, high impact absorbing Ultra High Molecular Weight (UHMW) polyethylene for our sidewalls. This is the same material we use on our ski's bases. It’s very impact resistant and since it’s full height, it also absorbs more vibration like using a longer spring in your car’s suspension. Take a metal pipe and hit it against a rock, then do the same with a piece of plastic. The metal vibrates through to your bones & the plastic absorbs the vibration for you. That’s the difference of having full height plastic shock absorbing sidewalls over your edges or not. We’re cutting the sides of the sidewalls to a 10* angle, with a nice step at the bottom for easy tuning like race skis.

SPECS

Length162cm169cm176cm182cm188cm
Dimensions 132 – 102 – 123 132 – 102 – 123 132 – 102 – 123 132 – 102 – 123 132 – 102 – 123
Sidecut Radius14.4m15.8m17.1m18.6m20.4m
Weight Per Ski1560g1640g1720g1785g1840g
Camber3.0mm3.0mm3.5mm3.5mm3.5mm
Effective Edge1070mm1295mm1350mm1410mm1470mm
Tip / Tail Height70 / 35mm70 / 35mm70 / 35mm70 / 35mm70 / 35mm
Tip / Tail Length330 / 200mm330 / 200mm330 / 200mm330 / 200mm330 / 200mm
Running Length1090mm1160mm1230mm1290mm1350mm
Boot From Center-6.7cm-7.0cm-7.2cm-7.5cm-7.7cm
Boot From Tail743mm775mm807mm835mm863mm
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