All metal skis, m1 skis on lift at Eldaora

First Ever All Metal Skis

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by Cameron

It’s the biggest advancement and innovation in ski manufacturing since metal edges and composite skis — all aluminium skis routed out from a solid block of 7000 series aluminium by ‪Metal1 Skis – m1skis.com.

But how do they ski and will they be able to match or even improve the ski experience of modern composite skis? Time will tell. In this video, I share my brief experience skiing on them this season and talk through how aluminium works well as a ski.

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Read the full story I did for Wired.com.

About the author

Adventure Correspondent Cameron L. Martindell is a freelance adventure travel and expedition writer, photographer and filmmaker who founded Offyonder.com in 2000. He has contributed to Elevation Outdoors Magazine, The Gear Junkie, National Geographic, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Outside, Backpacker, Wired, Australian Geographic, Mountainzone.com and others. He has been to all seven continents and lived on five of them, including a four-month stint at the South Pole. Cameron has more than 10 years of mountain search and rescue experience, is an Eagle Scout, has been an Australian bush firefighter, competes in sailing regattas, plans national and international youth programs, guides Oregon rafting trips and Australian bush backpacking trips.

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