Ski touring equipment

verbier_ski_bum wrote:Ha-ha! shows how much I know about the whole touring thing;) But why is it then often mentioned as a plus point? Do you always have to wear skins when tour?

If you come across a short downhill section, you can choose to leave the skins on. It feels weird ang grabby, with Fritschi's you can lock down the heel and off you go.

bandit wrote:

verbier_ski_bum wrote:Ha-ha! shows how much I know about the whole touring thing;) But why is it then often mentioned as a plus point? Do you always have to wear skins when tour?

If you come across a short downhill section, you can choose to leave the skins on. It feels weird ang grabby, with Fritschi's you can lock down the heel and off you go.

Thank you. So I was told last week and opted to take Pivots out of my TST's and put Freerides Pro on them. TST is a fairly light skis so should be good, I think.

Thank you all for pointing me in the direction of Freerides. Finally got to ski them and really liked them on the downhill, they felt pretty solid and zero ramp makes them very easy on the legs. I am considering now taking all my bindings out and putting them back on with some sort of shims under the toe pieces to eliminate the ramp. Tried to skin too as one of the lifts is closed for repairs and untracked powder under this lift made short skin uphill really worth it. Very easy, almost intuitive, to operate. My legs are toast now but I guess it has more to do with 7 hours powder skiiing on Saturday then bindings.Only managed 3 hours yesterday - but more fresh tracks due to more snow overnight. They will be probably a bit too heavy for long tours, but I am not planning any of those, at least yet. But for short tours they should be very adequate and I am very happy with my purchase.