Owned vario carbon for about 20 minutes. After first descent found one pole basket with tip cut off by the ski edge. Look at your used ski poles just above basket and think how long the carbon ones will stand. Also having racing baskets on Vario poles is mega stupid idea - one needs to buy large 10 cm comatible baskets somewhere else.
sky8massdropyou can always get a larger snowflake basket. I have been skiing for over 20 years and am not a good skier. With that being said... I have never been able to slice off a basket with the edge of my skis.