Salomon Origins Bamboo

Women's All-Mountain

Price: £450.00 (Including Bindings )

Overall:

Ability Level	Lower Advanced Lower Expert Lower Intermediate Upper Advanced Upper Expert Upper Intermediate
Sidecut	125-78-106
Turn radius	13.1 (159)
Lengths	145,152,159,166
Construction	Wood core with bamboo layer Shock-absorbing system
Strengths	Grippy and reactive, with lots of character
Weaknesses	Carves quite a tight arc, which could be more of a handful in deep conditions

They say

We say

The Bamboo uses Salomon’s new shock-absorbing system and all-terrain rocker, and has the squarer ‘Intuitive’ tail for more control. The first impression you get is that it has very high levels of grip, in both long and short turns. You can lay it over onto the edge, safe in the knowledge that it will hold, even on the hardest snow. It felt playful and relatively easy to handle in the deeper conditions. However, the longest version we could test was 159, which is pretty short for backcountry. Overall, a grippy, fun ski.

Tester Comments

A solid performer both on and off piste, with an even flex pattern that progressively grips in most conditions

Grippy, playful skis which are excellent at carving

Salomon Origins Bamboo - 2012