Salomon Scream 10 Hot

8)

Screams are now christened... at Tignes on Saturday and Sunday just gone...

Off piste was out of bounds so I was "confined" to blasting the Reds down the Grande Motte to Val Claret but that gave me a good feel for the skis on piste.

I'll post a fuller review later but, in summary, I'm well pleased so far. They lock into the carve beautifully, whether vandalising the corduroy behind a piste-basher or running from hard-pack into soft stuff and then back into crud.

They do need to be edged properly (e.g. will not suit a "lower" intermediate coming straight off carvers) but feel very light under foot and flick edge-to-edge very quickly.

And they do need stiff boots - I did my first run with boots not fully tight (to let my feet warm up) and was all over the place... but...

With everything set right the Screams are the most precise and predictable I think I've ever skiied on.

And, yes David (;^), they do "chatter" a bit on the hard-pack but at least those dopey snowboarders who sit down out-of-sight below the ridges can hear me coming for once!

Bring on the powder... please...

...brief encounters with day old powder at Val d'Isere showed the Screams as very capable here too - the shovel is fat and stiff enough to pull the ski into surprisingly tight turns in the soft stuff and the mid-fat profile works a treat. And back on the hard-pack, they are rock solid and oh-so-predictable, even blasting over really ugly crud without ever losing grip.

Really feel on top of these skis now and can't wait to go bigger, steeper and deeper - a terrific all-mountain ski. 8)