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2019 // 2020 // 2019 SKIING THE WRONG WAY FOR 25 YEARS is a long time. Like a really long time. In 1995, our Art Director was less than a year old. Our Marketing 2019 / 2020 Manager hadn’t clicked into skis yet. Our Brand Director could still count of skiing his age on his hands. LINE was still a pipe dream – just some crazy the wrong dude with an idea and a garage. But that crazy dude in his parents BRING way garage realized that skiing needed FREAKS THE IN to change – it needed to adapt or die. In the coming decades, LINE shaped the evolving state of skiing. From Skiboards, to full-length twins, We’ve taken strides to surround to fat pow skis, LINE skis played an ourselves with the right people. The instrumental role in the development freaks and weirdos, the misfit toys. of our sport into what it is now. But we The skiers ahead of their time, and the ain’t some nostalgic bunch over here. ones that don’t fit on linear, digestible We’re skiers, through-and-through; planes. Why? Because the mainstream and while it’s nice to look at what zeitgeist is boring. We’re looking we’ve done, we’re more focused on for scrappy; the people that are a what comes next. We’re introducing little rough around the edges, the futuristic technology, refining shapes, freaks on the fringe. Because that’s and rising above a sea of stale design where innovation happens. We draw and gimmicky marketing ploys. Over inspiration from the folks pushing the years, we’ve made it our mission skiing in a different direction. It might to make skis for the good of skiing. UNITED CREATIVITY BY seem like the wrong way, but it’s a It might seem a little pretentious or Eric Pollard defining philosophy that has led us self-involved, but we’re still here. Tom Wallisch to X Games Podiums, at the heart of Doing just that. And we don’t plan Will Wesson the most memorable ski segments, on stopping any time soon. Hadley Hammer and even to create some of the most LJ Strenio exciting skis to date. It may not fit, it Andy Parry might seem a bit odd, and it might Leo Taillefer seem wrong. But breaking the rules is Parkin Costain fun, and we’ve always enjoyed skiing Sämi Ortlieb the wrong way. Rob Heule Andrew Whiteford SO HERE’S TO 25 Khai Krepela MORE YEARS. Pär Hägglund IT’S TIME TO GET Taylor Lundquist TO WORK. Dylan Siggers, Parkin Costain, and Brody McSkimming by Nick Nault Nick McSkimming by and Brody Costain, Parkin Dylan Siggers, Two decades of innovation and on the Sakana. peeler an Oregon hacks Pollard Eric COLLECTION SIGNATURE artistry; shaped and developed by the legend himself. 6 // SIGNATURE SERIES // ERIC POLLARD COLLECTION SIGNATURE SERIES // ERIC POLLARD COLLECTION // 7 I’ve spent years chasing a sensation, a certain feeling. “One that I’ve never been able to feel before – one that “ fundamentally changes how a ski will plane. And with the Convex Base™ Tech, we’re finally there. Adding convexity to the tip and tails of the Sir Francis adds dimensionality to the ways is which you can Bacon and Outline was a massive challenge – one pressure, feather, and stand on a ski. The end that was harder than anything I’ve ever undertaken result is a ski that slashes better, butters with more in the past. With this Convex contouring, we’re control, improves float, and adds speed. able to loosen the overall feel when the tip or tail is pressured. Similar to a surfboard, the convexity -ERIC POLLARD OUTLINE SIR FRANCIS BACON Equipped with Convex BaseTM Technology to open up new possibilities in turn All-new and primed to change your conception of what’s possible on snow, the shape, the LINE Outline Skis are the ultimate development of freestyle powder Sir Francis Bacon opens up new lanes of creative skiing. Bumped up to 107mm ski design. Slarve, drift, and plane in any snow condition. Building on years of underfoot, and featuring drift-inducing Convex BaseTM Tech, the Sir Francis twin-tip ski design, the LINE Outline is the penultimate collaboration between Bacon swerves and butters through pow without sacrificing bite on hardpack Eric Pollard and LINE Skis. and blown out chop. LENGTHS: 178, 186 CORE: Partly Cloudy™ LENGTHS: 176, 184, 190 CORE: Partly Cloudy™ SHAPE mm: 150-117-142 BASE: FATTY™ 1.7 SHAPE mm: 143-107-139 BASE: FATTY™ 1.7 TRUST THE POLLARD PROCESS WEIGHT/ SKI(g): 2030 FLEX: Symmetric Flex™ WEIGHT/ SKI(g): 1850 FLEX: Symmetric Flex™ SIDECUT AVG. m: 18.5 GEOMETRY: 5-Cut™ SIDECUT AVG. m: 16.0 GEOMETRY: 5-Cut™ STANCE mm: -40 CONSTRUCTION: Sidewall STANCE mm: -20 CONSTRUCTION: Sidewall Idea → cardboard model → prototypes → award-winning skis PROFILE mm: 15-3-15 EDGE mm: FATTYTM 2.5 x 2.2 PROFILE mm: 6-4-6 EDGE mm: FATTYTM 2.5 x 2.2 SIGNATURE SERIES // ERIC POLLARD COLLECTION // 9 Pollard’s meticulous design process at it’s earliest stage. earliest it’s at design process meticulous Pollard’s PESCADO SAKANA With it’s swallowtail design and massive forebody, the LINE Pescado is Eric The yearning for turning continues with the award-winning LINE Sakana. With Fish shapes. Pollard’s definitive pow surf ski. A directional stance attuned for responsive a versatile 105mm waist and the signature swallowtail design, the Sakana powder skiing, and the playful feel you’d expect from an EP shape. offers unmatched hard-snow bite coupled with deep snow float. You all might have thought we were crazy when we introduced this freak; see what you’ve I grew up skiing directional skis. Skis with little we introduced swallowtail skis – with both the been missing. sidecut that were super stiff, but still pretty fun. Pescado and Sakana – I wanted to harness the But I felt limited by those skis. It’s how I ended positives of the directional skis – stability at speed, up all those years ago working on developing long effective edge, and edge grip – into shapes LENGTHS (cm): 180 CORE: Partly Cloudy™ LENGTHS: 166, 174, 181 CORE: Partly Cloudy™ and rethinking ski design in general. In the last and designs that still allowed me to ollie, butter, SHAPE mm: 158-125-144 BASE: Sintered 1.1 SHAPE mm: 150-105-138 BASE: Sintered 1.3 WEIGHT/ SKI(g): 1950 FLEX: Directional Flex™ WEIGHT/ SKI(g): 1770 FLEX: Directional Flex™ couple of years, I’ve been inspired by the non- and play with turn shape. SIDECUT AVG. m: 19.5 GEOMETRY: 5-Cut™ SIDECUT AVG. m: 15.0 GEOMETRY: 5-Cut™ traditional fish snowboards out there, and it STANCE mm: -80 CONSTRUCTION: Sidewall STANCE mm: -80.5 CONSTRUCTION: Sidewall made me reexamine directional skis. And when -ERIC POLLARD PROFILE mm: 20-4-1 EDGE mm: 1.7 x 2 PROFILE mm: 10-4-0 EDGE mm: 2.1 x 2 Hadley Hammer by Matt Power Matt by Hammer Hadley THE PANDORA COLLECTION Uncompromising women’s freeride. WOMEN’S // PANDORA COLLECTION // 13 PANDORA 104 PANDORA 94 PANDORA 84 DIRECT TECH™ The award-winning LINE Pandora 104 is back again. With the same Magic The Pandora 94 from LINE defines all-mountain capacity. Quick edge-to- Not every day is a pow day. Heck, most days aren’t. Most days, you just wanna Directionally striated material not only Finger Carbon Filaments™ that harmonize with the AspenliteTM core for a edge and surfy through the backend of turns, the Pandora 94 is the one freak go out and arc some turns with your friends. Square up on the Pandora 84 – looks fast but sheds snow easily allowing stable, lightweight ride, the Pandora 104 is for those deep days. Nimble, quick, of a ski you need – no matter the conditions. Backed by Magic Finger Carbon the intuitive, easy skiing hardpack specialist – and let those skis run down the you to show off those legendary LINE and unsinkable, the Pandora 104 offers a women’s specific big mountain Filaments™, these skis offer an unmatched weight-to-performance ratio for fall line. graphics on the chairlift. performance in an uncompromising design. long days on the hill. LENGTHS: 158, 165, 172 CORE: Aspenlite™ LENGTHS: 151, 158, 165, 172 CORE: Aspenlite™ LENGTHS: 151, 158, 165 CORE: Aspenlite™ SHAPE mm: 137-104-121 BASE: Sintered 1.3 SHAPE mm: 131-94-117 BASE: Sintered 1.3 SHAPE mm: 122-84-110 BASE: Sintered 1.3 WEIGHT/ SKI(g): 1633 FLEX: Directional Flex™ WEIGHT/ SKI(g): 1491 FLEX: Directional Flex™ WEIGHT/ SKI(g): 1339 FLEX: Directional Flex™ SIDECUT AVG. m: 14.6 GEOMETRY: 5-Cut™ SIDECUT AVG. m: 14.5 GEOMETRY: 5-Cut™ SIDECUT AVG. m: 13.0 GEOMETRY: 5-Cut™ STANCE mm: -65.2 CONSTRUCTION: Capwall™ STANCE mm: -59.1 CONSTRUCTION: Capwall™ STANCE mm: -57.1 CONSTRUCTION: Capwall™ PROFILE mm: 12-4-6 EDGE mm: 2.1 x 2 PROFILE mm: 8-4-2 EDGE mm: 2.1 x 2 PROFILE mm: 3-4-2 EDGE mm: 2.1 x 2 COLLECTION FREERIDE THE Experimental tech, rad shapes, and a never-ending dedication to making skiing more funner. Rob Heule goes zoom in Whitefish. Photo by Nick Nault. FREERIDE // VISION COLLECTION // 17 Dylan Siggers on the all new light weight freeride ski. Photo by Nick Nault. Nick by ski. Photo freeride weight light on the all new Dylan Siggers THC™ CONSTRUCTION This is not just an excuse to make weird pot references; this is some serious tech. By combining three different laminates – Aramid, carbon, and fiberglass – that resonate at different frequencies, we’ve created a hyperdampening construction that allows us to shave weight.

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