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Review: Scarpa 4-Quattro Pro

By

Gavin Hess

The 4-Quattro Pro sits atop the Scarpa Quattro line—it’s the heaviest and most downhill-oriented.

The Scarpa 4-Quattro Pro fine tunes the power strap.

  Overview/Brand Overview For the past few years, it has seemed like Scarpa was getting their butts kicked in the mid-heavy weight touring boot game. With Technica absolutely dominating and the Dynafit Hoji/Radical and Atomic Hawx not far behind. Between the Maestrale RS, Maestrale XT, 4-Quattro SL, and 4-Quattro XT, a lack of options wasn’t…

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  1. Brett Nicholas

    “The cuff height is average, or even a little low, relative to the beef of the boot, but it isn’t noticeable compared to something like the Zero G.”

    So you are saying the zero G is noticeably what? High? low? Please clarify for those of us who haven’t skied the new iteration.

    1. Gavin Hess

      Hey Brett, sorry for the lack of clarity there. My intent was that the ZeroG is a relatively average cuff height for a baseline comparison. Let me know if more quantitative data is helpful in this instance, I’m always happy to break out the measuring tape.

  2. Whit

    Your description of the flex characteristics is what I’ve been searching for in boot reviews, thanks for that. Would love to hear more comparisons of this with the different touring boots (…maybe a future Podcast episode?!)
    My pre-BOA 27.5 Hawx with Intuition liners are still 1700g and just don’t walk well enough, but their suspension and dampness make it possible to ski with arthritic knees. Is there a sub-1500g better walking boot with this type of suspension? I was hoping it’d be the Skorpius 2 but nope. Maybe the Ridge? Sounds like it’s the Quattro.

  3. Mp

    Nice review Gavin! Glad to hear you’ve found a beef boot to enjoy.

    Question, these break on the full size, 24.5/25, 25.5/26, 26.5/27, 27.5/28 etc. Which length did you test and what shell size do you comparably use in other brands?

    Just a couple of comments from experimenting with the Quattro Pro myself this season. I’ve skied almost every boot in this category as someone with problematic feet who is always looking to find something that is both walks well, is stiff and fits better.

    – The bio pebax punches like pastry, you don’t even need the cup of the boot press, just heating the shell and pushing on the ball is enough to mold the boot in the shape you want. It’s kind of concerning how easy it is actually. If anyone is on a hut trip or traverse or something and in pain I’m confident you could punch this boot with a combination of a fire, a gloved hand and maybe a ski pole handle.

    – Comparing the walk mode to the Hoji Free 130: The Quattro is a bit less frictionless through a larger ROM than the Hoji. The Hoji has a noticeable amount more of forward ROM, the Quattro has more rearward ROM with less friction. I think it depends on what someone values, I have flexible ankles so missing forward ROM really bothers me so I find the Hoji to walk much better.

    – As someone who has a long history of skiing World Cup style inbounds boots, I do have to disagree with you on the flex profile. I find the Quattro flex to be much more on/off and have a higher rebound rate than many other beef boots or inbounds boots. I do think it still skis well and if this is going to be someones main boot I do think they’ll adapt to it no problem, but for example I find the Hoji Free has a significantly more progressive and stronger flex versus the Quattro.

    – I do find the cuff low, especially with the carveouts on the sides of the cuff. When measuring it seems to be 1-2 cm lower than the Hoji or Zero G in my size.

    – I found the stock intuition foam used in the liner too flimsy and put in a normal intuition quickly, significant improvement. The plastic on the tongue is like you mentioned nice however.

    – This boot definitely could use the full vibram soles, the soles are allegedly replaceable with the right skillset so it would be cool if that is something someone could offer with soles from Scarpa.

    – Another thing that lets this boot ski really well is the amount of forward lean it has, the zero G needs the Raide mod to feel similar and plenty of other boots in this category feel too upright in my opinion.

    1. Gavin Hess

      Hey MP, thanks for the detailed response and additional perspective! I always find it fascinating how different an experience can be with a boot given someone’s background what their baseline is – mine is certainly not a world cup race boot.

      I added a blurb to the fit and bootfitting section in the review about shell size, not including that from the get go was an oversight on my part. In brief, I went for the 27.5/28 shell, with my norm being a 28/28.5 for almost all other brands. I was expecting to need some shell work/punches, but ended up very happy with the fit after a liner mold.

      Its a shame that the Hoji Free is no longer available – now that I am skiing the Ridge, I am more intrigued than ever by the Hoji boots and it seems that is the only other model that would’ve worked well for me, volume wise.

      Agree with you about forward lean – it is awesome to have such a wide adjustment range. The 19* lean + flat binding ramp made skiing a directional ski like the Dynastar Mtour 108 much more enjoyable for me.

  4. Greg McMillan

    Have you confirmed the lower shell is shared with the Maestrale just off one size? Would make sense given the BSL’s line up. I skied a 26.0 Maestrale RS (V4/2024) quite a bit but after fiddling with the high instep and some durability issues I swapped to new the Tecnica Zero G Tour Pro in a 26.5. The latter felt great but was a tad snug in the heel which presented it’s own set of difficulties.

    That being said if I was to go back to Scarpa for the Quattro (undecided on Pro vs XT) would it be best to size up to a 26.5? Wondering if the 26.0 would be a tad too short and snug in the heel. I figured with the volume of the Quattro and the forefoot shaping of the Maestrale shell it would be a great pick.

    1. Kam DH

      The folks on TGR forums seem to think this is correct about the shells between Quattro/RS. The BSLs check out. However, the liners are different.

  5. Matthias Jahnel

    I’m currently using the Dynafit Ridge in size 26.5. Given you’re using both Quattro and Ridge, could you recommend a size for the Quattro Pro? Thanks Matthias

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