Salomon

Quest Pro 130 Ski Boot

What is your name? What is your quest? What is your favorite color? The answer to the first question is irrelevant, but if the answer to the third is lime green and black, and the answer to the second is, "to seek out the raddest lines, deepest snow, and biggest cliffs," then the Salomon Quest Pro 130 Ski Boot is the stallion that'll take you there.

With a flex of 130, there's no mistaking what the Quest Pro 130 is all about: charging hard. The flex, combined with the burly power strap, gives the Quest Pro the backbone to punch AK-style lines, send BC pillows, and crush South American steeps, so you can line up any terrain without wondering if you'll push through the front of your boots and get loose. For increased lateral stiffness and the edge-to-edge power necessary to drive big boards, Salomon joined the shell and cuff with its Oversized Pivot, which keeps lateral flex as stiff as a board so you can jump from your inside to outside edge with instant response and killer precision.

Salomon packed the Quest full of tricks, too, some big and some small. Perhaps the biggest is the 360° Custom Shell, a bi-material polyurethane beast that has heat-moldable panels to provide a perfectly tailored fit without any punching or grinding. The My Custom Fit 3D Race liner is also fully moldable, and works with the shell to perfectly mirror the contours of your feet to serve up killer comfort and unbeatable precision and power. All the buckles are micro-adjustable for near-perfect volume adjustment, and you can choose between three positions for the 3D adjustable instep buckle, so you can find the angle that pulls your heel most securely into the pocket.

The Quest Pro's final trick is its Ride and Hike Technology ski/walk switch. A metal backbone runs up the spine of the boot, and can be released into hike mode by flipping the switch into a raised position. This sets the cuff free from the shell, giving you enough ankle articulation and cuff movement to turn short tours and otherwise killer bootpacks into breezy jaunts, so you still have the juice to hammer big lines back down to the car. A rubberized sole takes the sketch out of slick and exposed rock scrambles, and a waterproof gusset forms a barrier between the overlapping shell panels to keep your feet dry when you're booting up or shredding pow on the way down.