Salomon MTN Explore 95

Strengths:
light, smooth, turns on a dime, great in tight trees, bumps, powder

Weaknesses:
chattery at high speed through crud.

Summary:
Best ski that I've owned

Model year: 2015
Riding style: 50/50 backcountry, side country, piste.
Length on the ski: 169 cm
Riders weight: 67 kg
Riders length: 173 cm

Strengths:
Light, all round, good at most things, quick response, surprisingly good ice grip on piste for this type of ski. Easy to get around in forest skiing. Flows well in most fore off-piste. Able to stand on piste when the surface is ok.

Weaknesses:
No too hard skiing on icy piste or in windy conditions hard before off-piste.

Summary:
Cannon skiing! Drove it for three seasons. About 50 days both in Åre and the Alps. Doesn't let you down regardless of the conditions.
Relatively easy to ride, but perfect for a skilled rider. Has dynafit bindings on, but hybrid binding would be best.
The ski can handle more than my tech boots. Will save this ski for many years.

Model year: 2019
Riding style: 60/30/0/10
Length on the ski: 179 cm
Riders weight: 88 kg
Riders length: 180 cm

Strengths:
Weight
Radius
Rocker profile
Width
Appearance
Powder and slag

Weaknesses:
Grip and performance on harder surfaces
Ice and bumpy terrain
Vibrations

Summary:
Nice on good days, but if you come out on a harder party, they do not really hold the edge grip as desired.

If you know that you have stable weather with nice fresh snow or soft sleet, they perform well. But if it freezes, you quickly wish you had something more torsionally rigid under your foot.

Used them with both dynafit rotation and shift. Same experience with both.

Model year: 2019
Riding style: summit trip, slush and powder
Length on the ski: 185 cm
Riders weight: 75 kg
Riders length: 183 cm

Strengths:
Good performance versus weight, very neutral feeling. It is perfectly possible to burn prepped hill as an untouched mountain side

Weaknesses:
Good at everything, but not the best in any context if you want to be crass

Summary:
Run a little mixed conditions with them. milled fresh piste and went on a few different trips outside the system. A stable and in my eyes quite calm ski that does not just stick out for you. Do you want to run jump turns down some steep gutter? No problem. Maybe put GS turns down the guest stairs? No problem.

Model year: 2020
Riding style: 80% peak / loose snow 20% Piste
Length on the ski: 177 cm
Riders weight: 73 kg
Riders length: 175 cm

Strengths:
Versatile and really really good to go fast on the piste in relation to your weight.

Weaknesses:
None really. But of course, it is not maximized to anything

Summary:
I bought it to have as both touring ski and piste ski. I have so far only tried it on the piste and very short stays next to the piste but I must say that the piste performance was above all expectations. It can withstand driving really fast and there is very little flutter in the nose. The track may not be quite maximum and it does not have quite the same lively recoils and dynamics as my previous Enforcer 93s. At the same time, it feels much heavier and more stable on the piste than my previous Navis Freebird did. The bottom line is that I seem to have found a mix between these two. So for my quiver, it fills the perfect hole for both cross-country and piste skiing.

Model year: 2021
Riding style: Everything except the park, although the ski actually felt quite comfortable to land small jumps with.
Length on the ski: 184 cm
Riders weight: 80 kg
Riders length: 188 cm

Strengths:
Lättåkt

Weaknesses:
Unable to handle high speeds, the insert drops. (which one would expect from a lighter ski)

Summary:
Has this as a top-tier ski, which works very well. It is a relatively soft ski which makes it easy. Most comfortable in somewhat quieter riding.

Model year: 2018
Riding style: Piste, powder and summit
Length on the ski: 177 cm
Riders weight: 73 kg
Riders length: 177 cm

Strengths:
Easy and fantastic on the top tour, but also in loose snow and on the piste. Good also to carva with. Handsome!

Weaknesses:
No, except that because of its low weight, it may be a bit "streaky" on hard icy surfaces as you travel fast on the piste.

Summary:
Easy and fun to both ride and shine with. A top ski trail that loves both snow and piste. Even though the waist of 95cm today can feel like "narrow" the ski is wonderfully wide at the front and I have never felt that it is not enough. Also owns eg. The Salomon Rocker 2 122, which is of course wider and offers a different flow in extremely large snow depths but the Mtn Explorer is, in my opinion, the perfect ski that can handle most of it thanks to its ingenious construction where low weight and stability are combined in an exemplary way. Highly recommended!

Model year: 2018
Riding style: Goes mainly powder and top tour but also some pistes
Length on the ski: 184 cm
Riders weight: 78 kg
Riders length: 185 cm

Strengths:
An extremely versatile ski, which also makes very much very good. Easy enough to go on a long trip, but far from wrong to mount alpine binding on either. Maybe the perfect ski to throw on a shift on? The relatively short radius means that it is really fun to squeeze in the piste with, but in combination with the retraction it does not chop in opistat before either. Wide enough to be able to go everywhere, narrow enough not to be busy going on a long trip. I drive it personally as a ride ski and do not regret my choice one second, but it happens that I run it in the piste for family travel too - and it is as wonderful there as well. This ski does everything from clean cuttings in Hummelbranten to Stora Sarektraversen.

Sure, as a piste ski it would have been to have longer active edge, and as a ski for pure lift-borne riding, it would have benefited from having a little more mass behind it. For rock droplets and high speeds, it would have served little on having a slightly longer tail with tailrocker - but as a well-balanced allrounder I am doubtful that it will be better.

I'm pulling myself to put 5 stars, but had I been able I had easily put 4.5 / 5.

Weaknesses:
"Jack of all trades, master of none". It is probably the only thing that can be said - for those who want super-specialized skis this is not the right choice.

Summary:
Possibly the perfect ski to throw on a shift on and drive to exactly everything. A very well-balanced ski, possibly with a certain focus on being easy to make it easier to ride, but far from extreme in that respect.

Model year: 2016
Riding style: Most touring, but also some pistmys with the family.
Length on the ski: 184 cm
Riders weight: 80 kg
Riders length: 180 cm

Strengths:
Skis that you will quickly get safe with.
Salomon MTN is just what I'm looking for in a ski trip, easy to ride on all bowls.
The skid also works well in the piste, keeping the cutter well in normal running. Flows well in pillows with regard to width and the length I have (177cm). A good ski that I bought for my top trips, but after a season on them, I can say that they have been hanging for many days in the ski slopes as well.

Weaknesses:
It's an easy skiing for top trips so of course it turns out to be awkward in bad conditions such as harvested piste / offpiste. Really deep pillows you have to be left on the skis to keep the flow. The same thing in ice pist is difficult to hold.

Summary:
I recommend this ski trip to top trips.

Model year: 2017
Riding style: country skiing / therapist / powder
Length on the ski: 177 cm
Riders weight: 75 kg
Riders length: 182 cm

Strengths:
You can say pretty light, good flex that gives a nice swing in a short swing.

Weaknesses:


Summary:
Have gone four top trips so far with the skis and experienced most of it in leash conditions except for lack of crowds ....... clear that it does not give the same flow in the powder as a wider ski but the flex is well tuned and invites to wonderful pumping with good flow . What one lacks in width down comes as an advantage uphill, easy to get pressure and fasten even on hard packed on a steep slope, which is often significant with the struggle with a wider ski.

In the slopes I can say that I am very impressed! :-) has been driving for two full days in a hard and relatively icy lime embankment has run everything from big carving turns at full speed to tight short turns with good bite and a lot of "pendulum". not once have I experienced that the ski "folds down" itself. rather the opposite, several times I "got off the gas" even though the ski has had more to give. Absolutely wonderful swing in short turn, where it is easy to operate the ski and get a smooth cut. There is a high probability that I will run on these when I take my week as a ski instructor :-)

Late Edit:
Actually drove a few days on these as ski instructor in Verbier last winter (2018/2019), worked canon considering how well they deliver and in piste :) As a reference it can be mentioned that I without "bombed" down for classic torture in verbiage in a blissful blend of wind-packed cold snow and humps ......

Model year: 2016
Length on the ski: 184 cm
Riders weight: 80 kg
Riders length: 181 cm