I first got interested in ski touring back in 2019 when a friend invited me along on a February full moon tour. I was still fairly new to skiing and didn’t really know what touring was. Despite getting horrible blisters from the rental boots and a terrifying thirty seconds of falling backwards into the darkness when my skins lost their grip on the icy summit, I was hooked.
Being on the mountain surrounded by the stars, the dark outline of tall pine trees, and hearing nothing but the muffled crunch of skis cutting through fresh snow? Magical. The joy of skiing down the mountain at night with nothing but the moonbeams dancing on the snow as you whooshed towards the village twinkling in the valley below? Nothing like it.
When the pandemic shut all the ski resorts down in early 2020, I decided to buy a used touring setup so I could continue accessing the mountains even if the lifts weren’t running. I hadn’t had the opportunity to do any touring since that first trip in 2019, but I wanted to try again….
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Sarah the Adventurer 