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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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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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What is it ski touring, equipment and gear ski touring?

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Ski touring has been around for a long time: about 1000 years ago, it was a mode of transport before it became a sport and a hobby. In general, ski touring is done on groomed and protected slopes but you still need to have some basics or a little experience of off-piste skiing. What is it ski touring, equipment and gear ski touring? If you're skiing for the first time, prefer slopes that tend to be flatter and easier because climbs require a lot more physical effort. Indeed, if you are too tired, once you get to the top, you may have more trouble keeping control during the descent. If you want to try a climb the first time, you need a good preparation in advance: walking, jogging or cycling regularly a few months before your departure for the mountain.  The choice of trails you will take will depend on your physical condition, your level of skiing, the weather and the terrain. The essentials of equipment for ski touring Skis There are different types of ...
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