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...
The Raptor 140 RS, new Raptor Speed RS and 120 RS are as close to World Cup race boots as anyone not wearing a start bib needs to own. Contact around the heel and ankle feels like a velvet vise before the boot is even buckled. Once cinched in with their low-profile...
The Vector Evo series blends race-bred fundamentals with fancy customization features to create a new series for the elite skier with no interest in running gates. The chassis is a relatively roomy medium (102mm in 27.5, 100mm in 26.5) that can easily be heated and...
A lot of boots made for narrow feet are minimalist affairs derived directly from a race boot. The Hawx Ultra, however, is based on a recreational boot, although the Ultra is more than just a narrower Hawx Prime. It uses a new shell design called Progressive shell that...
All the hubbub about heat-molding technology – wonderful as it is – tends to obscure the built-in virtues of the shell being heated. In the case of the new Advant Edge, such oversight misses what makes these boots perform like training wheels for intermediate skiers....
