Salomon Six Stick Review: A Playful Powder Chaser With Skate-Like Pop

Introduction

The Salomon Six Stick is built around Salomon’s Rockout Camber profile: rocker in the tips with a flattened-out camber through the midsection. Think of it as a modern take on cam-rocker, where the camber section delivers the load, pop, snap, and drive while the rocker tips make turn entry and exit easier and improve powder float.

It is available in 153, 157, 161, and 165, so most riders should be able to find a length that fits. This review is based on riding at Copper Mountain on a sunny bluebird day with average to cooler temperatures, over a mix of light fluffy fresh powder on top of older baked powder, plus chopped snow and perfect corduroy.

Who This Board Is For

The pow-chasing freestyle rider is the obvious match here. It has been years since a ride on this board felt this fun: it is like riding a little powder skateboard. It butters, it is playful, it pops, and it is genuinely easy to sink the tail and raise the nose in fresh snow.

Crucially, it does not fall apart on groomers either. It is simply a good all-around fun board for riders who want a freeride feel without giving up freestyle energy.

Flex and Ride Feel

This is a softer board, essentially a park flex packaged in a powder board. That translates to a middle-of-the-road overall flex with more give in the tips thanks to the rocker, a stiffer midsection, and an abundance of torsional flex.

The trade-off is chatter. The rocker in the tips combined with the softer flex causes a lot of vibration to reverberate back underfoot, so this is a lively board and you will feel it. Keep your knees bent when you get into really rutted-out terrain, absorb the hard shocks, and expect to feel everything from the soles of your feet up through your lower and middle back. Stay attentive on chopped snow or this board will happily send you over the handlebars.

Pop, Butters, and Playfulness

Even with camber in the midsection, the Six Stick has a skate-like pop. You do not have to think about loading it up: roll back on the tail and it springs. That makes it easy to pop in fresh snow, and it also helps set up and launch late hits, side hits, rollers, and cat track gaps.

Buttering is where it shines. The rocker does not fight you, so you can leverage your weight outside the camber section, press into the nose, and it will hold that press. With a little flick of the ankle you engage and snap out, and the same applies on the tail. The board wants to swizzle and sizzle when you butter, and in fresh snow you can run high-speed powder butters all day.

Edge-to-Edge and Carving

Edge-to-edge transmission is fluid and quick. The board rolls in and out of toe-to-heel turns smoothly, steers underfoot, and is easy to redirect.

Surprisingly, it even held up on ice and did not kick out on edge, which is not something to take for granted here. The one downside shows up on the tail during deep, hard carves: the rocker and softer flex do not stay locked in and tend to kick out. Deep carving is more muted, requiring subtlety and nuance rather than raw, aggressive power.

Things to Consider Before Buying

If you ride a lot of chopped, rutted, or firm terrain at speed, the chatter and lively feel are the main thing to weigh. This board rewards an active riding stance and punishes lazy riding.

If deep, locked-in carve arcs on the tail are your priority, look elsewhere, because the softer flex and rocker tips let the tail wash out under hard drive. Comparable boards worth considering include the Jones Mind Expander, the Ride Psycho Candy, and the Amplid Kill Switch.

Buying Advice

Pair it with bindings and boots that suit your style; this review was ridden with Rome Black Label bindings and K2 Thinity Axis boots, and the softer, playful character of the board worked well with that setup. If you want a deck that makes powder days feel like a playground while still handling a groomer on the way back to the lift, the Six Stick belongs on your shortlist.

Conclusion

The Salomon Six Stick is a blast: buttery, playful, quick on edge, and loaded with easy pop, with just enough grip to make the groomer ride home enjoyable. Its softer flex and chatter are worth acknowledging, but for pow-chasing freestyle riders, that is exactly the character they are shopping for.