Salomon

A ski for all conditions and everyone? With the Q-Lab, Salomon is launching a ski on the market that is supposed to be a mixture of racing and freeride ski. A true all-rounder. Can the ski fulfill the expectations?

The Soulquest BC GTX 3L Jacket is the top model from the Salomon jacket collection and should of course meet the highest demands for weather protection and robustness. In addition, the "Motion-Fit" cut with additional gussets should allow perfect freedom of movement. The jacket has now been able to show us what it can do in an endurance test...

Our author was struck by the Salomon Freeski episode "War Story"... The astonishingly insensitive mixing of old footage from the Dolomite front of the First World War with quite successful ski videos of the same area provokes a polemical reply.

I've been using the Salomon Guardian for over a season now and it's time to draw a conclusion. From Andermatt to Alaska and from hardpack to bottomless powder, the binding has had to put up with a lot and I want to report on it...

There are now various, mostly brightly colored clothing lines from a wide range of manufacturers on the market that are specially designed to meet the needs of freeriders. However, the Salomon Quest Motion Fit combination really stands out: special attention was paid to maximum freedom of movement in the cut and material. We have tested for you how the clothing performs in everyday freeriding and ski touring.

As every year, we are reporting on the new products from our PG partners at Ispo 2014. In the first part, we looked at detailed ski mountaineering pants, light and heavy down clothing, various PinTech bindings and backpacks and ski clothing for ski touring. In the second part, we present a selection of next year's new products from Dynafit, Flylow, Icebreaker, Salomon, Salewa and Uvex. Enjoy reading and look forward to next winter...!

For the average winter sports enthusiast on one or two boards, ski goggles are a necessary but rather unloved piece of equipment that is usually only used in the worst weather conditions. In fine weather, however, the respective sunglasses model of the season is preferred to ski goggles, after all, with rather narrow sunglasses, the surface area of the face to be tanned can be maximized, which is one of the main interests of the common winter sports enthusiast. For freeriders and freestylers of the younger generation, on the other hand, functional ski goggles are the means of choice in all weather conditions. The significantly enlarged field of vision, the reduced risk of fogging and, last but not least, the obligatory snow owl goggle face as visible proof of a good winter season are all positive factors here.

Once again this season, we will be providing you with the best web videos of the week on PowderGuide every week.

The second generation of Salomon Rocker skis is now familiar to almost every freerider - wide, soft, fun! In order to be prepared not only for the really fat days, Salomon has produced a complete series of Rocker2 freeride skis for winter 2012/2013 (90, 92, 108, 115, 122 mm under the binding). We have extensively tested the Salomon Rocker2 115.

"WHAT? You've got the Rocker2 for testing? You have to give it to me!" a ski colleague hissed at me the other day when he saw the Salomon test ski in the car. As we all know, most of the members of the PG editorial team have more or less left their 20s behind them, and the Salomon Rocker2 is particularly aimed at the "flippy and spinny tailgunner" target group, it was a perfect fit for us that freerider Jan Berger wanted to take a closer look at the Rocker2. The Salomon Rocker2 in the test report:

PowderGuide is very fortunate to work with many of the best and most respected mountain sports companies that produce high-quality freeride and touring equipment. In the partner special, we would therefore like to present or recommend one of our partners' top products for winter 2012/2013.

One of the major material trends in the freeride sector in recent years has been the increasing popularity of freeride ski boots. If you want to get away from rutted ski variants or have had enough of wobbly ski touring descents in soft touring boots, you can choose from an ever-growing selection of freeride ski boots suitable for touring. So that you don't lose track in the product jungle, we have once again presented and categorized all the freeride boot models available to us for the 2011/2012 season in this market overview.