2025 Dynastar M-Free 99

The 2025 Dynastar M-Free 99 gets a graphic upgrade, but otherwise returns as one of the better 99mm twins on the market today. It’s still smooth, easy to ski and playful, yet you can put the hammer down on groomers due to the build. It’s easily one of the better tree skis we’ve ever been on, and the fact that it can light it up in the park is pretty amazing as well. There’s a broad audience here, with a lot of skiers able to enjoy all facets and aspects of this 99 mm twin tip. Dynastar has done some very interesting things with the construction of their skis over the past few years, and now that it has incorporated into the twin tips, we could not be more excited.

Dynastar’s Hybrid core has filtered into many of their skis for the 2025 season, bringing with it an eco-friendly and dynamic new way of building skis. By layering poplar stringers in the core and pairing it with polyurethane along the sides, we get an insanely smooth and energetic feel. This blend gives the M-Free 99 a very unique character. In the 185, we’re seeing a stated weight of 1900 grams per ski, which is right on the money for mixing high performance power and mobile energy. Tester Marcus Skakun picks up on this, noting that the M-Free 99 was “Heavier and stiffer than expected. It was the most powerful ski in the category. Feels like a big mountain twin with its stout feel. It’s a bit stiffer in the tail and a tiny bit softer in the shovel. Underfoot it has a nice wide stable platform you can stand strong on. For a bigger more powerful skier like myself it was a great ski in the woods. I could drive it into the soft bumps and power through the varying terrain.” Nice to hear that even for larger skiers, this ski can hold up its end of the bargain in tighter spaces and variable conditions. The Polyurethane helps here as well, keeping the ski on the quiet and silent side.

Shape-wise, this ski is a whole lot of fun. That’s what it’s all about. The ski has a lot of rocker to it and the according splay. It’s not like the Unleashed 98 in which the ski has more of a park shape, this is still kind of in the freeride realm. Matt McGinnis notes that “This is another fun one. This ski could truly ski the entire mountain. I think they could handle the park well (although I didn’t test that), and they performed well on a powdery day on lookout. That’s probably the strong suit here: these skis are very versatile.” In the 185, the skis produce an 18-meter turn radius, good for all sorts of turns—the fact that it’s so heavily rockered makes it easy to release the turn and the camber underfoot makes it very poppy and energetic regardless of conditions or terrain. There’s a fun amount of taper here that helps with smoothness in flotation, but it’s not the defining characteristic of the shape. Overall, these are very well-rounded and versatile skis.

The main hangup on the range of skier is the availability of sizes. They’re getting you into a ski that starts at 171 and tops out at a shorter feeling 185. We’ve always wanted to see a slightly longer length in this ski for the larger skier and another smaller size for the other end of the spectrum. It’s kind of a shame, really, that these amazing skis only fit a narrow section of skier. They also have the M-Free 90 available in a lot of shorter sizes, but that is a totally different ski than this amazing 99. If you fit into the brief size range of the 99, then consider yourself lucky.