This past December POWDER got invited to visit Salomon’s state-of-the-art Annecy Design Center (ADC), the iconic French ski brand’s global headquarters, design laboratory and prototyping facility. I ...

Professional skier and ski mountaineer Cody Townsend helped design the Salomon QST Echo 106 so he’d have a lighter ski he could still count on for bomber downhill performance when tackling big ...

I actually got to tour Salomon’s Annecy Design Center and assemble one of these skis myself, learning directly from the product engineers and design team about what makes this ski do what it does. For ...

The French ski-equipment maker Salomon, however, has come up with a less cumbersome solution: its Quest Access Custom Heat, a ski boot with an integrated heated liner. When creating the product ...

From the outside, Salomon’s design center doesn’t look particularly ... are injected with material to form ski boot shells. It's a bustling beehive, with everyone playing a part in producing ...

Read more: Best high-tech ski gear for 2025 Well, now Atomic, Solomon, K2 and others have ... I thought it was a pretty nifty design. Boots equipped with single or dual BOA dials aren't going ...