In the interests of full disclosure, the purveyors of realskiers once served in product management roles at Salomon, although our tenure was so long ago that the company we toiled for bears little relation to the Salomon organization of today. All that remains on our...
Salomon allowed brother brand Atomic to steal the new product headlines for 2016, while they focused their efforts on two areas we at realskiers largely ignore: Frontside system skis made more to match a package-ski price point than to fulfill a performance...
If you’re under 30 and living at the base of Snowbird or Jackson Hole– an improbable but attainable nirvana – the Rocker2 122 might be your everyday ski. For everyone else, this is a Powder-only proposition, with its every design aspect tailored to this condition. ...
Salomon’s signature monocoque construction is ideally suited to building a big-bodied ski. A monocoque can be made skeletally light, and Salomon doubles down on weight diminution by stripping the edges off the extremities and using a synthetic honeycomb in lieu of a...
Salomon’s Q-103 Stella takes all the standard steps to adapt its classic monocoque construction to the requirements of the Powder category. Taking it from the tip, the Stella swaps its lightweight wood core for a honeycomb composite, then flattens out the forebody...
