Best 15 cheap Alpine Touring for Ladies

Good morning this is eric anderson with dina for north america and i am visiting. You with andrew kreisberg back country skiing canada today we introduce you to use the new radical boot from the dena. Fit line this is our first hundred percent pm boot with a four buckle system the beauty of this new boot for us right now it has a 60-degree cuff rotation based. On the new pivot point in the front of the boot here so you actually go to unlock it's the first four buckle boots that has a six movies cup rotation pull. Up on a quick release on your heel and then you have actually this great masticity in the île itself for touring. We also have the new motion lock system so when you are touring and when you go to ski mode it's really there's no moving parts it's just this one particular level it'll lock you into your download it is a spoiler. Constructed boot so it is similar to our. Vulcan or our ward winning tlt six so it. Has a pu shall pu cuff and then a pu or. Spoiler in the back so similar to all the rest of our line, but we're introducing new today outdo each other. For the first time price point five hundred and fifty dollars we need any. More information check us out on the web.

Hi this is hub with back country calm out. Enjoying a beautiful spring day and the Wasatch mountains here near our home base in park city utah I'm standing here with the beast 16 binding we alluded to this a little bit earlier in the year that we are going to be one of the few actually the only online retailer in. North america that's going to be allowed to carry this binding we're gonna have. Roughly a hundred pairs for the fall winter 13-14 season it's a very limited. Release there's 2,500 worldwide 850 in north america and a hundred of those are gonna be here at back country calm i want. To go through a few of the technical aspects of the beast binding because it's obviously quite a bit different than a lot of the dena fit products that you've seen in the past first thing I'd like to kind of mention is obviously you can tell it still has the tech inserts that we've come to know and love from the dena fit brand which allows you great freedom of motion when you're hiking uphill there's nothing there's no resistance points as you're climbing also you're climbing more off the ball of your foot as opposed to having a pivot point that's a little further in the front which feels like more of a natural walk motion so as with a lot of. The other dena fit bindings this button is going to allow you to enter the binding by simply pressing down on it the teeth will open up and then you'll allow you to sit into the tech inserts in the front of your boot now when you're actually going into walk mode this throw would go forward which. Prevents the toe piece from actually pivoting now when you do go into ski mode and you put your throw back in place here you will actually have the binding that's gonna pivot laterally in the front which is something completely new for dena fit and it's going to allow you a lot better release in terms. Of lateral release as well as vertical release from the binding now on the heel. Of the binding obviously this looks quite a bit bigger than anything that we've seen from dena fit in the past and as i mentioned before the dena fit. Binding even though it's quite a bit burly are looking it still is keeping the weight you know shaved down at night 35 grams is still a really lightweight binding for the amount of safety. Protection and performance that you're going to get out of this piece now the first thing that obviously you're going to notice is the pins have changed from a round pin they've had in the past with all the dena fit tech bindings to an oval eyes pin now the oval eyes pin is going to have more surface area so it has greater contact with the boot and with greater contact with the boot you'll be able to transfer the energy a lot easier to the ski and it's going to give you a lot more lateral rigidity on the downhill now when you're actually going to go you know if i was going to step into this binding and go into ski mode all i would simply do is step in you'd be locked in and ready to go now when we're gonna go into tour mode you would engage the front of the binding and then all you do is pull this first throw down and it's going to lock out. Both the brake and put in your primary climbing post for your uphill mode now. You have a secondary climbing post which. Actually will flip over and you can easily flip it over with a pole and it locks into place on top of the secondary climbing post it's easier to just you can pop it out with your pole get it back in place like that the other things that you're going to notice right off the bat is the increased size of the. Spring in the rear of the binding now this does have a release value of 16 as I've mentioned before which is not dim standard because no tech bindings at this point are actually din released standard but what is known as its release value so it's going to be very comfortable to that if you're familiar with a din setting the other thing is obviously it does have two points of adjustment here for your din which is going to adjust the upper spring and then as well as your lateral release which is going to be adjusted from the rear of the binding now when you want to go out get your skins off and everything you're done at the top all you do is pop this right out-of-place click it back step in and you're ready to go now the. Other really important factor here is the elasticity of the entire binding in the past a concern has been the people you know if they were coming off a large air or really compressing on the tail coming out at a high speed turn but the pins can actually move a little bit in the back of the boot which generally speaking is not a problem with this new rear piece and front pivoting a toe piece it. Actually has an elasticity to the entire binding that will keep the pins at a constant pressure with the rear of your boot so you never have to worry about pre releasing from this binding this is the beast 16 binding we're really excited to be the exclusive online retailer for dena fit in north america to offer this to the consumer if you. Have any more questions about the binding about the process of mounting the boots and bindings and skis together feel free to call our gear heads, and they can answer any questions that you may have on this any dena fit product or any other product that we have a back country comm.

This is the scott celeste boo a women's. Ski touring boot it's a lightweight. Touring boot so comes complete with the pin tech inserts that you can see here. That's two for utilizing on any other. Pin bindings but the beauty of that is it makes your whole turing setup much lighter it's easier to clip in and. Out of and just generally a lot more user-friendly for anyone who's wanting to do a lot more touring it's a very lightweight construction with a. Superb ly heat moldable liner the liner. Is also very lightweight overall with. Foldable liner and the shape of the shell in the forefoot it's good for somebody who has a slightly wider foot all in all the scott celeste boot is a. Superb lightweight ladies ski touring. Boot it's available at ski Bartlett in. Hillingdon or you can also visit our website at.

Hey it's andrew here from back country. Skiing canada here to talk to you today about the scott cosmos — alpine touring boots that I'm wearing now and have been. Running for a couple of months let's. Take a look at some of the features this is a booth that's made of grille amid. Which is the actually plastic that came. From sunglasses on your pack. Sure i believe so that's what this white is it's typically white the. Boots that sell themselves overall are. Like the cosmos that were made by. Garment before garment was bought by scott but scott has made a couple a. Couple updates and improved their tech. Inserts for one thing a couple of the. Remarkable features of this boot that I'd like to tell you about just cool simple touches like how the buckles. Step up and get out of the way it's snow jam there so you can take the tongue. Remove the tongue etc again more buckle. Stuff just let me show you this that's. Kind of nifty see that action how if. You're out on a tour and you want to tighten up to go down you just click like that and it automatically goes into the more tight setting um other. Things that just kind of speak to the quality the power strap is reinforced. With some kind of hard plastic so it's a little bit beefier than a standard power strap you might come upon one thing that. I feel could be improved upon in this boot maybe is the walk mode mechanism it's a little bit feels a little bit. Flimsy and I'm scared that there's a. Slight chance that it might bust out in the field one day and that would be disastrous so that would be my only my. Only criticism of the boot in general is this little lever just feels a little bit flimsy I've taken these four days on. The hill lift service skiing just did that today with some big skis, and they operate perfectly the boots only way. 2.9 kilograms so a pretty lightweight. Boot as far as the flex rating goes it's. A 130 so that's pretty stiff i don't. Now the flex rating seems a little bit arbitrary to me but that's what it's set. At 130 and the cuff rotation which. Actually is pretty good is 60 degrees so there's a good. Complication there also the v trim soles. Can you get that the v brim soles are. Nice sticky rubber my favorite as well. Featured on scarpa boots make a difference if you're. Scrambling on rocks what have you so all. In all this boot for me has been primarily a I'd say it's like a more of. A lip service boot for me because i don't have any alpine boots but. I've taken either neither in the back country with heavier skis and bigger wider skis so a good all-around. Boot and i guess this year scott is. Coming out with another boot of course that we might have a chance to check out at a si a, and we'll hopefully get a. Pair of those to review for you to one other point paul parker who was with. Garment and made these boots originally. Is now working with scott so i think we. Can expect good things from scott in the future and all in all a good stiff not. Super lightweight alpine touring boot but full-featured very nice. Progressive flex makes you feel like you're in an old-style ski boot let's take a quick look at the liner here. For the cosmos to from scott it's a thermo for mobile liner actually it as well. Claims that you can wear it rights out of. The box so i have had them heat molded. And they fit like a glove which is a. Good thing with boots one of the. Things that i like about this liner is the ability for your foot to slip right in courtesy of this kind of slippy. Fabric some liners have fabric that's more like this so it's kind of tough to have to get your foot in good straightforward beefy supportive. Liner here some people wear the laces on. The inside but i don't so that's that. That's the liner and the boot as far as. The boot goes we've talked about it before you can take a little take a little look inside the shell here it's. All well-constructed pretty simple walk mode mechanism there snackie power strap. Fixation so we've been reviewing these. Scott cosmos 2 here and if you'd like to see this review and more other great reviews and other fun stuff go to back country skiing canada.com it's andrew signing off thanks for watching.

Hey it's brad from back country skiing canada calm and today we're going to talk about the last sport team of specter 2.0 alpine touring boot this. Replaces the original spectrum boot which we reviewed a few years back that can be found over here this is still the. Lightest 4 buckle boots on the market it weighs in at 1400 45 grams or about. Three pounds three ounces that's four half pair size 27 and a half sizing. Comes in from 25 all the way to 35 sorry 31.5 in half sizes the boot is a little. But stiffer this year it's got a 115 flex rating which is about five percent stiffer than previous version the shell. Is made of grille made and the cuff is p back so that's what makes this boot so light again it's four buckles so it's a pretty light boot considering it's a four buckle boot it's also now compatible with alpine bindings tech. Bindings and tr2 bindings so that's a new feature as well what is the same on. This boot is the low profile Pegasus. Buckles really simple easy cam device to use they don't pop out when you're using the boot takes a little bit of getting used to using them because they are so innovative but once you get used to using them they're pretty easy to use. On a day-to-day basis thermo moldable. Easy liner is the same as well and also the 60-degree cuff rotation so a really huge range of motion in walk mode and. What i love about the less marked eva's in the original version in this version is you don't have to unbuckle the boot to get that range of motion i keep the boot totally buckled up i might open this one up just to get the blood flow again but in fully buckled mode you can. Get that sixty degrees which is pretty incredible the sole on the 2.0 is a. Vibrant sole it's got the harder the. Harder sole in the yellow locations and the softer soul in the black location so that you can grip on a rock better and not wear down the tip and toe what is. New is well in the 2.0 version is a roomier toe box the last sport team has always had a really roomy toe box this time it's even roomier I've had to put an insert in to take up some of that room because it was just so much room for me but nice feature because you can. Wheel the toes keep them warm the pivot point as well it used to be removable with an allen key now it's built-in it's fixed which is great because i did lose the pivot point once at a lodge which was not the most opportune time so now that's a solid feature which is great color scheme is. New as well I'm digging it i think it's. A great color scheme for the boot nice and vibrant and lots of fun to wear it's also 5% stiffer as i said before. And you can definitely feel that when. Ski touring and it's a nice feature price on this is 779 canadian 679 us so. It's a pretty reasonably priced boot considering it's such a lightweight boot and it's got all these great features and yet it still skis the hill so I've. Ski turret in this the previous version the last 14 is spectre original promote. Two and a half three years i think now on the version 2.0 and it's a I'd say better than the last version they've they've improved some features but you can tour in this you can ski the hill and it kind of does it also it's one of my favorite boots that I've ever toured in or skied in period the women's. Version is the sparkle and it's got a nice color colorway as well if you're. Looking for a really light boot and you. Don't want to compromise anything on the down you want a good fit you want huge. Flex range you want a lightweight boot and optimal performance then I'd highly recommend the last sportive spectre and the last 14 of spectre 2.0 which is the new version so highly recommend this boot check it out if you're in the market for an 80 boot that you also wanna ski the resort and occasionally for more bug reviews go to. Backcountry ski in canada calm and everything else back country you'll find it there as well thanks.

This is the new scope of freedom sl it's. A free ride touring boot so the idea. Being you can easily go on any tours. Generally probably more a day tour than. A full overnight longer tour but the. Beauty of this boot is it can be your one boot does everything it's. Performance downhill when your skin on piece is absolutely brilliant the lateral performance is good the power. Forward into the turn is good but it's. Still, pretty lightweight so for touring. You know it's still very good if you're into free ride tutoring with a. Bigger wider ski this is the kind of. Boot you want to be looking at the scope of freedom sl comes complete with the. Vibram tekken's sole unit but the beauty. Of this as a boot is you can unscrew the sole unit and put standard alpine piece. Soil unit on so it does mean that this boot can be used in a touring pin type. Binding a touring cage type binding or a. Standard our point binding sl is. Available at ski barclays in hillingdon or it's also available on our website at. Skybar lucam.

Hi I'm kyle will see our trading post scarpas freedom sl ski boots are built. For aggressive skiers who want the stiffness of an alpine boot and the flexibility of a good touring boot as ski magazines gold metal gear award winner and powder magazine skiers choice. Award winner these boots are impressive it all starts. With the pea backs for new shell which provides more consistent stiffness regardless of changing outdoor temperatures and the patented carbon core frame which ensures lateral stability and improves power transfer the real comfort from this boot comes from a removable intuition speed liner. Which is heat molded quick drying and offers a rubber bottom for wearing around the warming hut an oversized. Power strap and for micro-adjustable buckles wrap your feet and ankles in. Strong supportive comfort to go into touring mode each buckle can be adjusted to the touring tooth so that they won't easily come loose while walking next adjust scarpas innovative walk and. Ski lever found on the heel return when. The lever is in the locked position this boot boasts a flex rating of 120 which is ideal for driving big skis with confidence when you need the full range. Of touring motion simply disengage the heel lever adjust the buckles to the touring teeth and enjoy a full 27. Degrees of flex motion finally this boot. Features the vibra mountain plus outsole block which is fully interchangeable and compatible with both alpine touring and. Dyna fit style tech bindings scarpas. Freedom sle alpine ski boots are available in men's and women's versions and are suitable for strong skiers who split their time between the back country and the resort get yours today at sierra. Trading post. You.

Hey there this is andrew from back country skiing canada calm here in. The whitewater slack country kind of late season day and want to talk to you a little bit about the scarpa freedom sls now they are the biggest and. The Beefiest boot offered by scarpa in the. Touring the touring category and chris. Davenport who's a an accomplished ski. Mountaineer and all-around good guy helped them build this thing this is the second season the boots been out and I'd. Say for me they're really an occasional. Touring boot or a slack country boot i have them paired up often with this ski. Here the line sick day 125 so it's a. Super phat ski and actually today. We just got 20 fresh centimeters so i. Found this combination was a good one lots of interesting things about this boot that all I'll show you first of all. One of my kid one of the key features for me a little feature and it's just. This little rib thing right here it holds the pulse of power strap in. Place so you sometimes know it's the little things also an external totally. External walk mode simple feature. Here i know some of them as straddles. That we've reviewed on the site have had. The occasional issue with a little bit of snow bill up here and then it just freezes but as you can see this very. Simple clip down you're in there and the. Flex is a 120 so that's comparable to a. I'd say it's comparable to dina fit. Vulcan probably and the weight is actually three pounds 13 ounces per boot. So they're not super light, but they certainly aren't as heavy as some of the some of the boots out there with this kind of construction other things that. Are key benefit quick step inserts. Iowa's feel more comfortable using deena fit. Bindings or tech bindings in general if they have this quickstep thing and thing. Is vague i know but it's it means that the boots really mesh well with the bindings and what else can i tell you. Little features like this thing here for. Touring so this buckle maximum. Slack flexes the degree cup rotation is 26. So not i mean I'm not super duper flexi. But enough and again this is for. Me anyway it's an occasional. Slack country boot it's not a dedicated. Long tour boot there is some carbon. Fiber in here also there's a bit of a frame or an exoskeleton that gives it. More rigidity and stiffness one more thing that I'd like to talk about let me. Get down on my haunches here the they. Have different soles available so if you want an alpine sole you can take it off. You see here vibram sole this part comes off and this part comes off and that actually the. Alpine sole screws directly into the. Carbon-fiber frame or exo in the. Skeleton whatever the carbon fiber. Aspect of the boot so it's very very tight fit and that's about it. These scarpa freedom sle from scarpa. Obviously and a good boot not a. Dedicated long tour boot but a good boot for the hill with the occasional side country lap and that's it my name is andrew thank you for watching if you want to see other gear reviews or trip reports and contribute to our forums go to back country skiing canada.com thank you.

When you're touring and you flick this it's amazing the range of motion obviously that you have without undoing. That top class so it's very precise for. Where you want to put your foot but feels really freaked she's good i guess if you can do this if you want and you loosen it rights up when you're throwing to it makes it even easier the side. To side motion business and kind of see. Here it's on an angle makes it better yeah i like that i just. Kind of want to see if snow entry is any. Issue with this it's a mountaineering boot so times are gonna happen when you do get off your skis obviously and start. Postholing up there's something nasty and big i don't know if he'll be full walk mode like this or not but likely so. You can see i mean that keeps a lot of the snow out which is really nice that tall boots all gator and then. There's that cuff area so without doing. Anything to it i just clamp that yep. Clamps i don't think i can feel it but it's in. There it's definitely in there so i. Don't know yeah but other than that i. Mean boots sure does skin nice that's very comfortable and free feeling and. Light and on off-camber type stuff it. Sure allows you to keep a full skin contact if you choose so yeah so far so. Good okay so now it's time for the book. Review inside instead of in the rain so. There it is size 27 and there's our weight pretty. Simple little scale one boot 1.3 6. Kilograms so super light obviously. Especially when you're looking at something that is as strong as skiing boot as it is so that's nice so good weight on the boot now, and we look at the liners you'll see there are two liners that this boot is using this. Is the support liner the support liner. Are they're stronger liner it's nice just. A good flex motion in the back of flexes. Going in the back so you can get lots of easily easy angulation with this boot is. The cuff of the boot certainly allows it, so we don't want the liner to restrict that different densities of foam nice. And stiff through the top and the tongue so lots of support through their nice moldable down through the bottom which is great and then obviously our character being a mountaineering company they're thinking about using liners like this if you have to be drawing your liners you're wearing them alone not in a boot you can see you've got a rubber. Bottom to that boot which is going to. Give you a lot better traction if necessary but just durability as well so. Into the actual boot itself the plastics this is where all the magic is in this boot a few things that i really. Like i love how dry this boot is with this. Zipper that does up from the front of the boot it keeps this entire structure. Quite watertight as you can see that you. Tough and that gator around the top it's going to keep a lot of snow out so when you have that boot opened and you are in tour mode and a lot of other boots you. Collect a lot of snow through here through buckles and into the boot so you have a lot of water entry into this whole boot system that's not the case with this. Which is really nice to see it's in front of the boot as you can see has the rubber rand to it that's a thermoformed. Rand it's not going to pull away from that gives you much better durability. And some add its stickiness if you are. Climbing and using this boot from a mountaineering standpoint to have a hard. Plastic toe that can skate off is not a. Good scenario so having this is going to make a big difference for people its ultimate comfort when they are climbing and not using it with their skis and you. Can see it's a very burly soul the soul that's on there is not one of these super lightweight soles that's going to. Disintegrate in one season of use that's. A full proper vibrational go it's a. Mountaineering sole great to see that. Obviously works with pins it's what it's made for it's the only way it's going to work but from a standpoint of moving in. The mountains it's great to have that security on your feet so all in all i. Have to say that our caraxes nu pro kline. Boot walks as i would expect it to walk. And skis much better so i think it's. Going to be it's its definitely worthy of carrying the arc'teryx name hope you enjoy it.

Greetings from the drezna hut we're high up in the stew buyouts weren't we're just here for a few days testing the new arc'teryx pro klein carbon light ski tour okay first acquaintance it's a. Funny-looking thing it's got fully dinner fit compatible pin binding. Inserts I've gone for a vibram rubber on there so it's got a plastic shell but the upper this is actually the shell here this is just a nylon cuff really lightweight cup but unzips to reveal the. Aligner inside this is the light liner. This is the most sort of agile. Compromise between lightweight flexibility and ski touring and ability uphill from ounce an earring but also giving enough support for the downhill performance you can get a support liner that's a much beefier thing with a much more supportive tongue to upgrade the. Skiing characteristics of the boot most. Amazing thing about this boot is this carbon cuff it's absolutely incredibly high-tech feature they put a very cunning bushing. Between here and the aramid shall the other thing is that the cuff is an integral part of the water-ski mechanism, so we'll see later on when we get on the slopes the incredible skinning and cramp on in capability of. This boot but when we want to lock it down into ski mode it's simply locates. These lugs with one single click. The amazing thing about these boots is. That when you pull them into walk mode. And they release you don't have to. Bother undoing all the rest of the boot when we're skinning on i see Travis is when we scramble up rocks or when. We're come putting on hard i see slopes, but we can keep it beautifully tightly. Done up so the foot stays solid in the boot ordinarily in a ski touring boot. You only get flexibility for a raft but with this incredible cuff design you get a little bit of flexibility side to side we're actually able to roll the skis a. Little bit over onto their side like that now that's great of course both. When we're skinning on an icy Travis to get a better grip with the skins it's also great when we crump on him being able to get the points of our crampons into the slope course what you really. No using flexibility where suddenly. When you're skinning your really only. Limited by the flex in your ankle not flexing the boot at all. This week we've skied absolutely icp. Star-crossed trod which gets a really. Beautiful soft snow the biggest compliment i can give these boots is that they're utterly forgettable I've never once had to think about what i had on my feet now actually given the challenging conditions we've had that really is a complement indeed now i ski. This size of boot in just about every other brand but putting these on the first thing that strikes me is just how small and precise they are now around the heel that's a really good thing because it means there's absolutely no lift no slippage and no rubbing when you're skinning but across the front of the boot it just means that they're really super tight now if they fit the shape of your firm that will be fantastic, and they really are a precise fitting boot so if you were going to buy a pair of these boots buy them from a really good quality boot fitter get a shell that fits you nice as snug and make sure they fit them out properly for you arc'teryx if you're going to make a boot this narrow and this much of a precision fit can we have a wide version please.

hi I'm carla from a technical and this. Is the deena fit tlt seven expedition. Tearing boots ideal for that skier who. Wants to maximize on downhill performance but also make it as easy as possible by going book hill is the lightest possible The speed nose creates a short toe box. Making walking more efficient and more. Natural the lambada carbon frame is an. Exo skeletal carbon frame which provides. Lateral and vertical rigidity for. Immediate response and added sensitivity. The ultra luck closure is a one buckle. Closing system which means reduced weight but also because it's streamlined. It reduces the risk of breakages and the. Buckles actually coming undone with the. Drill functions the buckle enables the. User to switch quickly between ski and. Tearing mode. For more information on the data 57. Boots please visit our website. Www.sceeto.com.