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What equipment for ski touring?

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Ski touring has become an increasingly popular activity in recent years. Alternating off-piste climbs and descents, the latter focuses on optimizing physical effort. Thus, a material fully adapted with the best possible specificities is required to allow you to make the most of, without getting too tired. To help you, Locatour takes a quick look at the equipment needed for ski touring . Choose your skis well The choice of ski touring is a real compromise. How long? What weight? Would you like to favour sensations on the descent or the lightness on the climb? On what slopes and type of snow will you evolve?? It all depends on your level of practice and the frequency of the outings. In order to choose them well, it is therefore essential to ask these good questions. For ski touring enthusiasts, it makes sense to opt for a long pair of skis. Ideally, it should be between 10 and 15 centimetres shorter than your size. You should know that slender skis will bring more stab...
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Choose your ski touring bindings

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There are three technologies for ski touring bindings : Ski touring bindings Adapters The adapters are between your shoes ( alpine skiing ) and your bindings (alpine skiing). They allow two positions: climb (heel released), and decent (fixed heel). The most popular models are « Securefix » and « Alpine Trekker ». This type of binding set is not allowed for common use in ski touring , for several reasons: 1/ You take your track gear that weighs a dead donkey and go drooling! 2/ You are very high and therefore very unstable, the edge is almost impossible: watch out for crossings on snow a little hard … 3/ Some models do not offer the possibility of putting knives… Passes again for an initiation (although if you don’t want to be disgusted it may not be the right choice). For more regular use it is even better to rent really suitable equipment. The « track » type bindings There are many models that are all equal, like Fritschi Diamir or Silvretta Easy Go. Advantages:...
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Ski touring in all its diversity

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Ski touring in all its diversity The event is gaining momentum, just like the practice it puts forward. The opportunity to bring together the skiers of ski touring in all their diversity. Because if not new, the activity has undergone profound changes in recent seasons and the craze for hiking and its derivatives ( freeride hike, ski fitness ...) is no longer denied. The genesis of the event comes from this: how can we help practitioners get started? "Hiking is really great but it's like getting a sports car without a license," says Gino Decisier, organizer of the event with his partner Guillaume Desmurs, journalist. A meeting dedicated to the pros in the preamble If in Austria or Switzerland the offer is already well structured, thanks in particular to the support of the stations, France is struggling to find the way to use. Hence the idea of creating as a preamble to the Big Up and Down, a meeting dedicated to the pros to help understand this phenomenon ...
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