The new Salomon QST Lux 92 didn’t fall off our Recommended list due to lack of merit, but lack of test data. The little we gleaned from the lasses was reinforced by the scores from our lads, who skied the identical QST 92.  Of all the returning models we evaluated in 2019, the QST 92 made the biggest leap in overall performance. There’s every reason to believe the Lux 92 would attain the same approval rating were it only essayed more often.

This is the second year in a row that Salomon has waved its innovation wand over the QST Lux 92, with the latest pass having the most telling effect. By unbundling flax from carbon fiber and instead laying a separate, all-flax mat in in its make-up, Salomon made the Lux 92 more damp and more torsionally supportive, a key ingredient in a ski that will occasionally be confined to crispy groomers. In a perfect world, the new Lux 92 would compete for top honors in the brutally competitive Women’s All-Mountain East genre. I’m beginning to suspect this may not be, after all, the best of all possible worlds.