Preview: 2025 Peak 88 by Bode

Peak skis is in its third season and the second generation of models are now coming into the collection. We recently spent some time at Peak’s Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana with Product Designer Darrin Hougan to talk about the recently released Peak 78 by Bode and the all new Peak 88 By Bode.

When Peak came to the market a few short years ago, they started with addressing and attacking the meat of the market, segments like the highly contested 88, 98, 104 and 110 millimeter wide categories. All but the 88 were all new designs proprietary to Peak. The 88 was a stopgap placeholder ski from a mold that was used by their then factory source, Elan (but not shared with the Ripstick 88).

The first “new” ski to the Collection was the 78 by Bode introduced late last season. The 78 was conceived because, unlike Americans who prefer wider off piste offerings, the Europeans prefer narrower on piste skis. You can read about the 78 in our review HERE. The 78 is a narrow wide ski, basically a freeride platform skinnied up to be quick edge to edge on the groomers and in the bumps.

Moving forward to 2025, Peak, with two new factory options, one in Ukraine, where the new version is produced created a position to create an 88 mm wide offering in their own concept and thus a whole new ski, but with a carry over name. The original 88 was a nice ski, but other than Peak’s propriety Keyhole Technology, the shape of the outgoing 88 was not in line with Peak’s other offerings. Enter the all new Peak 88 by Bode. Between the outgoing model and the new one, the tip decreases in width from 125mm to 120mm and the tail increases from 104mm to 108mm. This creates a shape more in line with the aspects that the Keyhole Technology brings along with a tail that will create a more rounded turn. These changes will add some versatility to mixed snow without losing hard snow performance, while having a shape that is more in line with the rest of the Peak collection.

We look forward to getting this new incarnation on the snow as soon as they are available to us so we can report back with a full on review.