Can anyone recommend the best replacement pads for SLX discs for a week in Chamonix. Scintered or organic? OEM or aftermarket brands?

Organic, shimano or EBC, organic pads will wear out faster but they wont boil your oil, as much.

Kevlar SSC ones? Just popped at set into my SLXs.

I had the original SLX shimano pads in mine and they lasted all week in Morzine/Passports but it was great weather. In rainy weather you may still want sintered.

superstar…. and sintered

EBC sintered have done me well.

Ashima SOS pads are very good.

I had the original SLX shimano pads in mine and they lasted all week in Morzine/Passports but it was great weather.

Same here, except there was a fair bit of mud about. Still loads of pad left – and I was braking lots more than normal as we were mainly riding DH.

I used a2z last year in an xt caliper that takes the same pad as an SLX one, they last well don't remember changing pads during the trip

If I was going……………….

I'd take 10+ sets of pads, then swap them out every day, just imagine how bedded in pads are at the end of a day in the alps!

Keep meaning to go on a trip to sheffield, just to bed in a load of pads! I swear whatever pads I take there could last a british winter!