The ski inspired by Line team rider Eric Pollard, with its 114 mm waist width, is positioned between the Opus, waist width 124 mm, and the Sir Francis Bacon, waist width 104 mm. Line's freestyle experience is clearly recognizable in the shape of the Mordecai with its pronounced tip and tail rocker. Nevertheless, it is not a classic backcountry freestyle ski with full rocker, as the Mordecai's camber of 15 mm - 5 mm - 15 mm (tip early rise-camber-tail early rise) also allows for the odd carving turn on the piste. At 2,029 g / ski (186cm), the Mordecai is not a lightweight compared to some carbon freetourers, but for a ski of this width, this weight is impressive and shouldn't put anyone off the odd tour. In addition to the paulownia wood core and P-Tex Sidewall, the Mordecai is equipped with many other technical refinements such as Thin Tip, Fivecut, Symmetric Flex and Longer Active Edge.
Once on the mountain with the Mordecai, it quickly becomes clear where its strength lies, because it's not for nothing that Line Skis has a slogan: "Skiing the wrong way since 1995". The ski skis just as playfully backwards as forwards. And even if the freestyle skills are (clearly) limited, as in my case, you should still get involved in more and more switch runs and other freestyle elements, because often the main occupation during a day in the snow is to find it in untracked and as good a condition as possible. This search is often only moderately successful and therefore all the more frustrating. So it makes sense to leave mediocre conditions behind and invest your energy in the search for more fun instead of better snow. As my results with this approach were fun but not worth seeing, we'll let the professionals take over and show you Léo Taillefer's GoPro Line of the Winter from March 2015.
