Salomon QST Stella 106 - 2018 POWDER Buyer s Guide

Unchanged from last year, the women’s QST Stella 106 retained its secret sauce of flax, carbon, and a wood core to remain one of the most versatile skis on the market. Salomon’s Spaceframe construction is an inverted sandwich wood core, with a layer of Titanal that runs edge to edge and extends beyond the mounting zone, and carbon stringers with interwoven flax fibers running the length of the effective edge before tip and tail rocker. The effect is an extremely responsive, powerful, stable, light ski that can float in pow, carve through chop, and haul ass on groomers. Although billed more as powder ski, the Stella features ABS sidewalls and a 20m radius, allowing them to handle the piste as much as the chop. Our reviewers, ranging from shop techs to school teachers and males and females, said of the QST Stella 106: “I felt confident right away.” “Super stable, damp, reliable, responsive and playful.” “It performed ok on groomers, radius doesn’t allow for quick turns.” “Great everything ski. Could turn when and how I needed to, but asked you to get forward and get aggressive.”