Touring skis
Why should you buy your touring skis on Glisshop?
We select the best brands and manufacturers and offer touring skis for all kinds of style: light touring, allround touring, freetouring. If you already own your touring bindings, then you're in the right place. Glisshop has a large selection of skis to match them. Feel free to contact us to make sure your bindings work with our skis: size, style, safety, brake width... Our knowledgeable staff will be happy to guide you through our range and help you narrow it down to what you really need. From the leading brands like Black Crows or Dynafit to smaller high-performance manufacturers like Zag, our touring skis match all tastes, skills and budgets. You can also discover our men touring skis and women touring skis. Read more Show less
Recommended price
£727.91
-17%
£600.51
The Black Crows Camox Freebird is a versatile touring ski offering lightness for the climbs, efficiency in various conditions and lots of nimbleness.
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Recommended price
£909.91
-25%
£682.41
The Corvus Freebird from Black Crows is a powerful freetouring ski offering lots of stability, capable to carve on hardpack while being a great option to trace lines in pow.
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Recommended price
£682.41
-20%
£545.91
The Orb Freebird versatile touring ski from Black Crows offers the lightness you need for the ascent while retaining good skiability for the descent. A good everyday touring ski.
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Recommended price
£773.41
-10%
£691.51
The Black Crows Navis Freebird is a touring ski featuring a lightweight construction while begin wide enough and efficient to ski at full speed during off-piste descents.
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Recommended price
£591.41
-23%
£454.91
The Black Crows Ova Freebird is a versatile touring ski with a punchy flex, yet remains accessible, its lightweight construction means you save energy in the ascent.
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Recommended price
£818.91
-33%
£545.91
The Black Crows Mentis Freebird ski is thin, light and performs well for efficient ascents and strong skiability during descents thanks to its combination of technologies.
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Recommended price
£864.41
-40%
£518.61
The Black Crows Ferox Freebird touring ski is born out of the will to offer a powder-oriented touring ski with double rocker yet that ensures efficient edging.
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The Black Crows Draco Freebird is a versatile and stable freetouring ski, ideal for advanced to expert skiers seeking lightness and optimal manoeuvrability in any condition.
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And touring was born again
The oldest picture we have of a man on skis is….4000 years old, on paintings discovered in Norway. That turns skiing as we know it, with resorts, lifts, parks etc, into a very small part of what is called history and of what was originally designed to carry people on snow. Despite the young age of alpine skiing, the sport quickly replaced touring and turned it into an old-fashioned way of using skis.
Not trendy enough, perhaps too difficult as well as it requires a tough physical condition, touring was underestimated and sadly forgotten for years. But the eco-friendly debates rising and the environmental problems we have nowadays brought touring back in the game. Touring means protecting nature and the mountain. No lifts, no resorts, touring is for nature lovers who like it when there’s no noise and no people around.
Touring, Backcountry or approach ?
There are different ways of touring :
Touring :
The original way of skiing. Before descending, you need to climb and it is the favorite part of a tour for most skiers. Touring means be as one with nature. They need to know how it works (weather, conditions, type of snow, etc) and they mainly use an equipment that’s as light as possible on order to be able to tour for a few days in a row.
Backcountry or freetouring :
If touring is uphill-oriented, freetouring prefers the downhill. To get the best tracks on the untouched slopes, freeriders don’t mind climbing a bit. Be aggressive and charge hard when descending is the main goal which is why they focus on performance more than on lightweight.
Approach :
This is only when you want to reach a close spot near the resort. Not very steep and not very long, this kind of ‘tour’ does not require any specific gear and skiers ride equally on groomed or soft snow. Discover our wide selection of Armada, Atomic, Black Crows, Black Diamond, Blizzard, Dynafit, Dynastar, Elan, Faction, Fischer, K2, Movement, Rossignol, Salomon, Scott, SkiTrab, Volkl, Zag touring skis without bindings!