Advanced All-Mountain Bindings

Salomon Strive 14 GripWalk - Review 2025

By: Derek Doyle & Annie Gunton - Updated: April 2025

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Derek Doyle

Contributor at SlopeMagazine.com

Hailing from Aspen, Colorado, Derek began his skiing career in the illustrious Powder Pandas ski school program, eventually sort of growing up to ski professionally in slopestyle and big air, while moonlighting as a ski tuner and writer.

Now living in Colorado’s front range, Derek can be found among the i70 crowd racing to find hidden powder stashes on the back bowls of Vail, on Park Lane in Breckenridge, under the lights on Keystone, and returning home to the High Alpine steeps in Snowmass. When he's not skiing he’s wishing he was, or nerding out on mountain biking, climbing, and golf.

Annie Gunton

Editor at SlopeMagazine.com

Annie has lived on 4 continents and traveled through 6. Spending her time in places as different as London and the Kalahari she has adapted how she gets out and enjoys what’s around.

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Where to buy Salomon Strive 14 GripWalk:

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Backcountry

Evo

The Salomon Strive 14 GW are our hands-down favorite all-mountain bindings. With these, Salomon has stuck to its tried and tested low-profile/low center-of-gravity design from previous Warden binding iterations. These bindings really adapt and move naturally with elastic toe travel into and out of turns with excellent responsiveness. Plus, they’re almost half as light as the Wardens.

The Strive 14 GW offers a precise feel, confident control, and reliable boot retention thanks to the extra large wings in the toe piece. While the boot feels plenty secure, the SCP slider pedal (an anti-friction system designed for safe release) means hard chargers can breathe a sigh of relief that they’ll come off with a hard enough crash and save your ACL.

The toe piece also adapts automatically to both alpine and GripWalk boot soles. The brake options come in four sizes: 90mm, 100mm, 115mm, and 130mm, so you can mount these to a super wide range of ski widths.