If riding the lifts in the resorts isn’t your thing, then you’re in luck when it comes to the touring skis here at SkiEssentials.com. We’ve got lightweight adventure skis from brands like K2, Atomic, Blizzard, DPS, Volkl, Black Crows, and more! Most touring-specific skis find themselves hovering around the 1500-gram range, with the ultra-light options come in at closer to 1000. The heftier ones are more big-mountain oriented, and they’ll tip the scales around 1900 grams. Most of these skis are ideally paired with light pin-tech bindings to maximize the uphill efficiency. These skis are built with lighter paulownia and carubawoods and don’t often use metal, but carbon, basalt, and flax filter in as additive materials to keep the weight down and the energy up. Touring skis generally use less rocker overall to keep the skin affixed to the snow a bit better, but they still operate very well in deeper and untracked snow.