Length skied, 180cm. Without reservation, the easiest ski in this category. Tolerates stance and balance mistakes like it?s your grandmother. FORGIVING like you dream about. There is some (more than a little) negative tip drift in big high speed arcs, but that?s to be expected from this type of flex pattern. (Torsionally softer shovel and tail) Just stand on ?em and go. BUT don’t let them get too far outside you unless you’re doing a study on “understeer”

The pros you are talking about are on regular GS LAB skis with Crossmax graphics only.

I have about 80 days on a pair of Crossmax pilot 10s.  Bumps, crud, steeps, powder, cruisers, you name it.  Big turns, little turns.  They are solid and stable.  I’m an expert all mountain and big mountain skier and I love them.  There is a reason we see so many PSIA ski instructors in Colorado using these boards.

By your own words, bumps, powder, crud, steeps etc, with no mention of edgehold when the snow is a pale shade of blue. Salomon has changed for the better for 06. They have addressed their shortcomings, and revamped their line. So your “butt” can be even happier. Pilot systems will eventually go away and take there rightfull place with Besser and Cubco. By the way, on a personal note regarding the X Max line, a lot of EXAMINERS are NOT on them but they are easy to nice demos of lesson material at lower levels.

In referring to the quality of the construction of this ski I got one word for you “GARBAGE”.  I work at the largest used ski vendour in France and we have lots of Crossmax?s, or as we like to refer to them “Crossmerde”.  At least half of them have their topsheets unglueing, and all of them are soft as noodles after only one season of use.  Not to mention the prolink system which is only good for breaking.  My advice to anyone is stay away from these pieces of s**t, and save yourself the 750?, your better off with your old straight skiis.

Salomon must not pay much attention to good quality control.

FIrst of all I would like to say the Crossmax 10 offers a fun and exhilirating ride but I am finding some of the comments I hear about poor construction realted to Salomon seems to be true(at least in my case). This is my first time on Salomon skis and I am dissapointed not in the performance but the crappy QC. This will be the first and last time I go with Salomon.

I purchased a pair pre-season promotion from the local ski shop about 6 months ago. Came with bindings.

Everything was fine untill about early February then I started noticing cracks in the tip area. Last week while out at Whiteface in NY I noticed on the lift when looking down at my skis that a dime-sized chunk had been somehow scraped off the upper left corner and exposed the dark topshelf. How this happened I dont know. I do not abuse my skis or throw them around and am pretty careful about these things.

I have also noticed that since November when I first went out that the skis have seemed to have lost some of the ‘pop’ and are getting more flimsy and rickety at speed. This is not in my head and I distinctly notice the change. Its like all of a sudden I have on a pair of scratched up rentals thsat haven’t been tuned in 3 years. I took the skis in for tuning and a wax. The tech said he has no idea how the ski could have been damaged in that way as it is a rather bizarre place for the plastic to come off and he had never seen that before.

After the tuning the skis seemed to be more smooth but just as floppy at high speed. Its like the stiffness has been abated somehow and they are now less rigid.

Skis are under warranty for a year. The shop I bought them from is jacking me around telling me I have to go through Salmon to get things rectified.  They are going back. I do not want a repair or new set. I just want my money back.

Never Again

I have skied in the world cup and am a professional racer and I would like to say this ski is probably one of the best made.

It turns very good and goes fast especially when you are going over little hills on the terrain. It also is fun to use on the jumps in the terrain parks.

I would reccomend it to others who like to go fast and also have a ski that has precise control over the turning radeus.

I have used ‘conventional’ skis (Volkl P10 SL’s etc)  for the past few years and hired a pair of Cross’s last winter.

I didnt know what to expect, but I just found them a little dull, they do what you want when you want, but they dont enspire you to push harder and faster.  The edge rebound isnt there at all, and they dont like high speed turns what so ever (you have to initiate the turn more than once!)

Overall for avg piste skiers I would say theyre not bad, but being an ex racer having skied more demanding skis they were just a bit dull

Good ski’s :  POSITIVES : very capable when going fast, good off piste, good on piste carves (small and large) sharp turn in, low levels of tip flutter at speed too.  NEGATIVES : A little heavy

I use to ski on Volki 30SL and I love these skis. This season I got the pair of Crosses 10 pilot. They are great skis. If you have enough energy you can push them quite far, but for “every day” skiing they perform flawlesly. Had no problem with quality so hard to say if the whole line has problems or just some bad ones.

Nearly broke my wrist after the small metal hook that attaches the heal-plate to the binding system snapped off in the middle of a mogul run. It was my first pair of Solomons and my last.

I got the 180s and they’re the first pair of skis I’ve loved since my old straight 190 rossi’s.  They’re stable at high speeds, which I love, yet can handle the off piste too.  I demo’d at least a few dozen different high performance skis over a couple of years, all of which I hated, prior to finding these.  160cm length was recommended for my height/weight (5’4”/125#) but I found the shorter length boring and rattley with speed, so I went longer & love them.  I have skied on them 5 seasons now & still love them.  No problems with quality as some others mentioned.