Salomon MTN 86 Carbon (Backcountry Touring Ski 2023/2024)

With an 86 mm underfoot, Salomon's MTN 86 CARBON has been engineered to balance the extreme lightness you need to easily skin up, with the unfailing stability and grip you expect when crushing it down the steepest, most hard-packed couloirs. It aims to minimize its environmental impact, so you can embrace your passion while being mindful of nature.

Touring efficiency
Weighing only 1.1 kg, this ski’s Full Woodcore, carbon-reinforced construction keeps the weight down, while ensuring stability and maneuverability are kept way up.

Uncompromised descent
This ski’s Alpine shape, high camber profile and carbon-infused construction will give you all the confidence you need to go as hard and steep as you want to go.

More sustainable
Made to last with up to 40% sustainable materials, this ski is part of Salomon’s untiring sustainability efforts aimed at minimizing our product’s impact on the environment.

Cork Damplifier
Cork is three times more absorbing than Koroyd. Using it in the tip of the ski enables a high level of vibration absorption and dampening with even less weight.

Full Sandwich Sidewalls
Full Sandwich Sidewalls guarantees stability and precision, it enhances performance by providing good edge grip and smooth ski-to-snow contact.

Ti Binding Reinforcement
A titanal insert edge-to-edge underfoot, running throughout the ski, for maximal power and increased hard snow edging.

Skin Tail Clip
Precut notch in the tail of the ski allows quick, easy and secure attachment of climbing skins.

At the 2023/2024 WorldSkitest the skis were closely evaluated in the category „Touring Men 1“. Tester opinion: "The "MTN 86" places itself in the good midfield with a successful performance. Only the handling of the skins was not quite as easy for our testers and was rated worse, otherwise the "Salomon" would be even further ahead in the overall ranking. The special advantages of this touring ski lie in the long turns paired with optimal smoothness."

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