Gear Review | Scott Pure Pro 109Ti

First impression

The Scott Pure is waiting for me in a stairwell in Freiburg. A light twilight mood, matching the ski design: simple, dusky. Immediately visible what awaits me: Paulownia wood, titanium, carbon, aramid and on top a pretty relief of the contour lines of your favourite mountains. Pretty pure! I tie the ski to my rucksack and cycle home. Amazingly light on the back! The Pure in 182cm weighs 1850g/ski without bindings.

About the tester and the test conditions

Who tests this ski that promises to be the only one? The only one you have in the garage, 109mm waist, no matter what? I'm 179cm tall, with ski equipment certainly over 70kg and claim to ski reasonably well, like to ski at speed, like to do turns in the forest, rarely in 6th gear in the couloir. I spend about 50% of my time freeriding in the Magicpass areas and 50% of my time touring, but I only climb a maximum of 1200 metres.

In order to use the Pure as a freetouring ski with all options, there is a Marker Kingpin on the ski for the test. Thanks to the rental binding, it was even possible to test with different skiing positions (front rear +1cm ski centre and standard rear - standard centre). I always skied with the same boot, a Lange Freetour with 120 flex and Gripwalk sole.

I've been using the ski since the beginning of December and as the period since then has offered practically all types of snow, the ski has also been tested extensively.

Test report

But now to the off-road test. I started the test at the beginning of the season in December and had to admit to myself: "This Ski is stronger than I am". I considered whether I could really do the test.

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But I gave Pure and myself a second and then a third try. The thighs got stronger, the edging sensation increased and on a glistening December Sunday, the feeling was there: We proceeded. The Pure was jetting through the (rainy) sulz snow - preferably straight ahead - and I started to stop working against it. It's not a passive danger, it's more like allowing it. Allowing speed - with high control and extremely good stability. Since then, the Pure has been my faithful companion: it takes powder and surfs, comparable to the Scott Scrapper, but more purposeful and less playful. In the snow it steams like a tractor in its tracks, extremely smooth. We've also ridden humps, where the Scott Pure 109Ti requires a lot of power. In general, whether you're skiing straight ahead, on moguls and especially in the broken snow: too little power leads to too little pressure on the edge, unclean turn initiation and the battle starts all over again.

The ski tempts you to do big turns, drops and other jumps without any problems, even without having steeled your abs beforehand - the Pure is stable enough. But what about when tighter radii are required - in the forest, in a narrow couloir? The ski simply loves to ski straight ahead, and that is absolutely its strength - it's not for nothing that Jerémie Heitz built it that way. Small radii go well, but require power. Between narrow rocks with icy patches, the Pure gives you peace of mind, because the Woodcore, Titanal and carbon make it very edge-stable.

As a touring ski, it is certainly better to use with a lighter binding than the Marker Kingpin. I should also briefly mention the binding mounting: the ski centre position was a pretty good fit for me as a less backslapping/freestyle-oriented skier - compared to the SCOTT Scrapper, which I ski in 189cm and have mounted 1.5cm in front of the specified point.

Conclusion

The SCOTT Pure is a ski for the big runs and big turns of your life. It prefers to ski straight ahead rather than braid. It gives you the stability to ski very controlled even at high speed and gives you the necessary weightlessness in the well-known "Acker" (ploughed through, busy terrain) to simply shoot through. Agility is not one of the things that describe it and if you are looking for a ski that is easy on the power and easy to turn, the Pure is certainly the wrong choice.

According to Jerémie Heitz and for Jerémie Heitz, ONE ski for every day. The 109mm centre is really fun in all conditions (powder, rain, hard snow, piste, moguls). However, you should analyse your own skiing style before buying this ski. Straightliner - buy! Wedelkönig/innen - Hands off!

Advantages & disadvantages

+ very stable at high speeds
+ light (in relation to its structure and stability)
+ stiff
+ versatile
-/+ with power also very easy to turn
- power-hungry to ride
- little forgiving

Information on

RRP € 699.95

Waist 142|109|128
Available in 182cm (radius 21m, weight 1850g) and 190cm (radius 23m, weight 2000g)
Twin-Tip Rocker M
Double core made of paulownia/beech wood
Carbon fibres
Pure Freeride Sidecut
Titanal reinforcement

Here is the link to Scott's website with further information.

The ski was provided to PowderGuide by the manufacturer free of charge for testing. You can find out how we test it in our test statement.