Kit that is designed for to make skinning uphill as easy as possible. Modern ski touring kit can also offer surprisingly good skiing performance.
Black Diamond has teamed up with Mike Barney, an Avalanche Professional, to create a series of educational videos around the basics of snow safety. Mike’s a Black Diamond athlete, has been ski guiding for the last two decades and spends around nine months per year taking clients skiing in potentially Read more…
Lange has a new range of ski touring boots for winter 21/22, and SkiKitInfo’s been thoroughly testing the XT3 Tour Pro to give you and in-depth test and review. Here’s the full video, so you can see just what we think of this new tour offering from Lange. Content created Read more…
If you already tour, or are thinking about it, choosing ski touring kit can be a minefield. How do you know your kit will compliment each other? Will the boots overpower the skis, leaving you exhausted from struggling down those otherwise heavenly slopes. Is the ski too much for those Read more…
The Dalbello Quantum touring boots, comprised of three models for winter 20/21, is exceptional. They’ve utilised a new shell construction technology, whereby the shell around the foot is created in two halves and bonded together. Two-part clog, bonded together This two-part construction of the clog allows much stiffer materials to Read more…
Scott dedicates a lot of their attention to ski touring products, producing some phenomenal skis, boots and lightweight avalanche airbags. Here, we want to focus on their popular Superguide range, following the addition of the wide, light and ski-performance orientated Superguide Freetour ski. Content created for you At SkiKitInfo, we’re Read more…
K2’s top of the range helmets are their Diversion MIPS for men and Virtue MIPS for women, which were both new for winter 2021. They share the same construction and multi-sport certification, but are available in different colours and size ranges. SkiKitInfo.com got to test the Diversion MIPS, to let Read more…
Scott has introduced a new freetour ski boot for winter 20/21, called the Freeguide Carbon. Scott Sports was born in the USA but is now run from Switzerland. They make all-mountain, freeride and touring skis, although they only focus on touring and telemark boots. They previously made traditional four buckle Read more…
Ski touring is about being able to travel under your own steam, without having to rely on mechanical lifts. The act of ‘walking’ on skis is referred to as skinning, due to the ‘skin’ attached to the base of each ski. The main difference between ski touring and regular skiing Read more…
SkiKitInfo.com brings you a complete guide to the full Decathlon Wed’ze RT and MT ski touring packages. Wed’ze is the winter sports division of the French powerhouse, Decathlon. They sell a vast range of kit, from many brands, but also design and develop their own-brand products. We were fortunate to Read more…
SkiKitInfo.com brings you a full review of K2’s touring skis for men and women. We’re not paid by the brands to feature their kit and don’t receive any commission or income from them for reviewing their products. They don’t have any say in what we write or report about their Read more…
SkiKitInfo.com has the world’s most comprehensive guide to Atomic Backland touring skis, for everything from ski-mo racing to epic powder days. We look at design, construction, strengths, weaknesses, boot and binding compatibility and who each model will work best for and more. We’re not paid by the brands to feature Read more…
SkiKitInfo.com has the full run-through of the Faction Agent ski touring range. We’re not paid by the brands to feature their kit and don’t receive any commission or income from them for reviewing their products. They don’t have any say in what we write or report about their kit. We Read more…
SkiKitInfo.com has all you need to know about Völkl’s new range of Blaze freeride skis. At SkiKitInfo.com, we’re not paid by the brands to feature their kit and don’t receive any commission or income from them for reviewing their products. They don’t have any say in what we write or Read more…
Salomon’s been working on a new freeride touring boot for the everyday skier. SkiKitInfo has all you need to know about these new kicks. We’re not paid by the brands to feature their kit and don’t receive any commission or income from them for reviewing their products. They don’t have Read more…
Today (1st November 2019) Marker has released a video of a new freeride touring binding – the Marker Duke PT 16. These will be available for winter 20/21. This binding will compete directly with the Salomon / Atomic / Armada Shift binding. It’s a bit like taking the best of Read more…
Marker has a new touring binding for winter 19/20, to work well with the new Dalbello Lupo Air, as well as new kit for your head. BINDINGS Marker’s been one of the main players in pushing forward the development of freeride touring bindings in recent years, and they’ve a new Read more…
Dalbello has gone from strength to strength in recent seasons and the 19/20 range sees further improvements to their already excellent line-up. Grip Walk Almost all of Dalbello’s boots for 19/20 season come with Grip Walk soles on them or as an option – so you can swap out the Read more…
Ski Kit Info clarifies the confusing world of ski boot/binding standards, with information about downhill, AT, pin, WTR and Grip Walk boots and bindings. Ski boot and binding systems are designed provide a safe interface between skier and skis . You need to able to ski with power and control Read more…
Atomic has new gear for the performance piste skier as well as a new Savor range for beginner and intermediate skiers. The Vantage X all-mountain range will be replaced for winter 19/20. The Backland touring boot gets an overhaul. Atomic Backland ski touring boot Atomic is making significant changes to Read more…
Scott Sports may not have a huge amount of new products for winter 19/20, but the new products are worthy of attention. Female skiers benefit as Scott has introduced a female model of the Slight 93 and Scrapper 105. The E1 electronic avalanche airbag range gets two new models, tripling Read more…