Best Park and Pipe Skis That Can Rip All-Mountain

Faction Mana 2 - Review 2025

By: Derek Doyle & Annie Gunton - Updated: April 2025

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Derek Doyle

Contributor at SlopeMagazine.com

Hailing from Aspen, Colorado, Derek began his skiing career in the illustrious Powder Pandas ski school program, eventually sort of growing up to ski professionally in slopestyle and big air, while moonlighting as a ski tuner and writer.

Now living in Colorado’s front range, Derek can be found among the i70 crowd racing to find hidden powder stashes on the back bowls of Vail, on Park Lane in Breckenridge, under the lights on Keystone, and returning home to the High Alpine steeps in Snowmass. When he's not skiing he’s wishing he was, or nerding out on mountain biking, climbing, and golf.

Annie Gunton

Editor at SlopeMagazine.com

Annie has lived on 4 continents and traveled through 6. Spending her time in places as different as London and the Kalahari she has adapted how she gets out and enjoys what’s around.

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Backcountry

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The myth behind pipe and park or freestyle skis is that they only belong in the terrain park. While a good set of freestyle skis should be able to eat up jumps, rails, and the pipe, freestyle skiing goes well beyond the park in the bottom half of the mountain.

Modern freestyle skis should be able to attack the back bowls, steep chutes, and backcountry booters.

Faction Skis sees freestyle skiing as having agile fun all over the mountain, hitting jumps, ledges, and cliffs and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible on the snow and in the air.

That’s exactly where the Faction Mana 2 excels. These skis are flat-out fun. The light poplar wood core construction offers a poppy flex, and the rocker/camber profile means they transition really well into carving turns through multiple snow conditions with a floaty stable feel at high speeds.

They also have a higher tail profile to help with landing switch in deep snow, and a carbon rubber layer underfoot helps to dampen choppy snow and add cushion on hard landings.