If the K2 Phat Love has a little more width than you need for all-mountain adventures the slightly narrower women's Lotta Luv Ski is a balanced blend that can exceed your need for speed in the untracked glades of your favorite big mountain ski resorts. Similar to a GS style but designed for all-mountain K2's Lotta Luv is performance profiled for expert and advanced women skiers who typically spend 50% of their day off the groomed corduroy. It features K2's proven torsion box construction the most widely used design on all K2 skis. Inside the Lotta Luv is a triaxially braided glass configuration around the lively spruce and fir wood core giving the ski exceptional rebound and response. While K2's torsion box design has been around for a number of years it remains one of the best (and critically-acclaimed) ski construction techniques because of performance and versatility. If you're wondering about the mix of fir and spruce in the core that's the key element in K2's female-specific BioFlex design. K2 created a stable and forgiving profile by using spruce at the tip and tail and fir beneath the binding area. Using spruce at the ends helps with turn initiation and enhances the lightweight characteristics that are essential in keeping a female-specific ski more responsive than a heavier unisex ski design. The final refinement is K2's Mod Technology a secondary core that's independent of the spruce and fir core. Mod Technology dampens vibrations without messing with the ski's overall flex. This improves the ski-to-snow contact while reducing the bouncing chatter. The result is a smoother ride that carries through a range of terrain with predictable consistency. This season K2 kept the proven combination of the Lotta Luv and the integrated Marker M1 11.0 TC (Total Contact) binding. Marker's piston configuration borrows all the best elements from their best IBX systems allowing you to load and bend the ski deeper with a pronounced bowed radius through powerful turns. The Piston Control Interface helps manage the ski's rebound as you initiate your next turn. Like previous seasons K2 continues to donate a portion of their proceeds from all K2 women's products to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation--as if you needed another reason to pick up a pair of Lotta Luvs for you and a friend.