Real tourists do not sit out in the comfort of home, even in winter. The road attracts them to the endless snowy plains and snow-capped mountains. And for many hours of passage through the thickness of snow, you simply need to ski.
How to choose skis for hiking?
This individual tourist inventory is always selected very carefully. It is important to take into account such factors as reliability, maneuverability and lack of stickiness (sticking snow).
When selecting skis for a particular person, it is considered that their length should correspond to the height of a person with a raised hand. The sticks must reach the underarms.
Another option for choosing a length is a person's height plus 10-15 cm. Then they are easier to control during the ascent and descent, especially in thickets. The sticks, on the contrary, can be longer, because in part they will go under the snow.
As for the material of manufacture, skis are wooden and plastic . What do you prefer? In the stores, modern models are represented by plastic products. Wooden ones often appear from garages and sheds, preserved there from our parents and from their Soviet youth.
Plastic tourist wide skis of good quality as a "filling" still have a wooden base, plastic acts as a "wrapper". A tree in its pure form, that is, a wooden sliding surface, has both advantages and disadvantages. So, wooden skis allow you to climb faster on the slides, but they are also averse to snow sticking.
All tourist skis are divided into walking, running and mountain-tourist. Universal skis, suitable for all occasions, do not exist. So for each type of hike you need to have the appropriate type of ski.
Tourist skis for use on untouched snow should have sufficient stability and good holding when pushing away.