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
-30%
£509.51
The Zag Ubac 95 is a versatile, lightweight and efficient touring ski, developed with the Chamonix guides to perform both in the ascents and descents on any snow type.
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Recommended price
£682.41
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£473.11
The Zag Ubac 89 is a versatile, lightweight and efficient touring ski, designed to offer good skiability in various snow conditions, thanks to its lightweight paulownia wood core construction, reinforced by fiberglass and carbon.
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Recommended price
£727.91
-30%
£509.51
The Zag Ubac 95 Lady is a lightweight, versatile and comfortable touring ski, offering superb performance in the descents, easy ascents and great skiability in various snow conditions.
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Recommended price
£727.91
-30%
£509.51
The Zag Adret 85 Lay is a versatile touring ski offering a good weight/strength ratio to allow you to save energy in the ascents and descend fast.
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Recommended price
£682.41
-30%
£473.11
The Zag Ubac 89 Lady touring ski is a versatile model which offers a great experience in the mountains thanks to its lightweight construction, off-piste handling and manoeuvrability in various snow conditions.
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Recommended price
£682.41
-37%
£427.61
The Ubac 95 Lady from Zag is designed for advanced skiers looking for a lightweight touring ski for the ascents and versatile in its descending program to have a blast on any type of snow.
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Recommended price
£727.91
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£509.51
Lightweight and versatile, the Zag Adret 85 is a touring ski designed to ensure quick ascents and send it in the descents, by offering decent floatability and grip on groomed snow.
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Recommended price
£773.41
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£536.81
The Zag Ubac 102 is freeride touring ski with a 102 mm wide waist and double rocker, offering excellent floatability on powder and smooth trajectories.
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Recommended price
£636.91
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£409.41
Ideal to save energy in the ascents and descend fast with control, the Zag Ubac 89 Lady is a lightweight, versatile and manoeuvrable women’s touring ski allowing to ski in various snow conditions.
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Recommended price
£727.91
-40%
£436.71
The Bakan is a powerful, stable ski with amazing floatability in deep snow. Zag has designed it to satisfy freetouring enthusiasts with the technical skills and physical condition to handle it.
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Recommended price
£818.91
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£573.21
The Zag Ubac 112 is a lightweight touring ski, ideal for powder thanks to the optimal floatability provided by the 112 mm wide waist.
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Recommended price
£636.91
-40%
£382.11
Versatile, manoeuvrable and lightweight, the Zag Ubac 89 is a touring ski allowing to complete efficient ascents, quick descents and to have grip on hardpack and some floatability in powder.
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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!