QST 92

While the QST 92 isn’t daunted by firm snow, flat terrain isn’t its native habitat. It’s most at home in about of foot of new, or at least recent, snow, where its tapered tip and double rockered baseline do their best work. As I mentioned in last year’s review, that it’s as light as a salad for lunch makes the QST 92 all the easier to toss around in tight quarters like trees and chutes.

X-Max X14 Carbon

The top model in Salomon’s Frontside Performance family of X-Max carvers, the X14 Carbon is easier to steer than a GS race ski, but it has the same notions about how to attack a fall line. (We interrupt this review to report that Salomon’s X-Lab 175, a state-of-the-art non-FIS GS race ski, requires the skier to commit to every turn like it was a 30-year mortgage; relatively speaking, the X14 Carbon only requires the involvement of a one-night stand.)

Salomon 2017 Boot Brand Profile

2017 Brand Profile [Full disclosure: your Editor worked for Salomon from 1978 until 1987, most of that time in product management. I don’t always agree with the path the brand takes, but I have a deep appreciation for how they conceive and execute their products.]...

Salomon 2017 Ski Brand Profile

OVERVIEW In the interests of full disclosure, both the Founder and current Editor 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 brand of...

X Lab

We don’t normally report on honest-to-God race boots for several reasons, not least of which are that the fit is inhospitable and the flex unbudgeable for all but the most fit of athletes. But Salomon has brought race-room fit and function down to 130 and 110 flex...