How to Use ski touring in a Sentence

ski touring

noun
  • If your heart is set on the backcountry, book a guide and try ski touring.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Trekking poles are great for hiking, backpacking, and ski touring.
    — Editors Of Men's Health, Men's Health, 12 July 2022
  • I‘ve been a fan of both skimo and traditional ski touring for years.
    — Anthony Walsh, Outside, 26 Feb. 2026
  • For me, new to ski touring, the appeal was immediate but somewhere along the way, doubt crept in.
    — Kendall Hunter, Outside, 14 Feb. 2026
  • In Europe, where most ski lifts were closed for the best part of two winters, many shops sold out of ski touring equipment.
    — WIRED, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The only way to see this particular panorama is by hiking or ski touring.
    — Melissa McGibbon, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2024
  • These Sealskinz also quickly became my new favorite ski touring gloves.
    — Berne Broudy, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Rather than chair lifts or helicopters transporting skiers to the peaks, ski touring requires skiers to hike up the side of a mountain, which can take hours.
    — Susan B. Barnes, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The ranch has a fleet of fat tire bikes, plus snowmobiling excursions, tubing, and backcountry ski touring.
    — Brittany Anas, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2024
  • In the winter, ski touring or snowshoeing into the surrounding backcountry is your best bet.
    — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Smiley’s accomplishes this with both snow safety and more general ski touring.
    — Abigail Barronian, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2021
  • This included group excursions like camping, ski touring and mountain biking.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2022
  • The skier has been ski touring avalanche terrain for 20 years without getting buried — until Friday.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Gmoser had recently guided a ski touring group up to the Bugaboo Glacier on the southern end of the Purcells.
    — Cassidy Randall, Time, 27 Dec. 2020
  • In the past couple of years, my backcountry excursions have gotten a bit more ambitious—both backpacking in the summer and ski touring in the winter.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 9 Mar. 2022
  • In Finnmark, skiing may offer an additional challenge — going off-piste by going ski touring.
    — Susan B. Barnes, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • A couple of them even admitted to wearing it nearly 24/7 while working from home, going on dog walks, ski touring, and resort skiing.
    — Samantha Berman, Outside Online, 29 Oct. 2024
  • In addition to ski and splitboard rentals, Bluebird offers avy education courses as well as intro to ski touring clinics.
    — Outside Online, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Miles Smart was guiding a ski touring group along the same Haute Route track that Castiglioni’s group was following, just 24 hours ahead of them.
    — Outside, 20 Sep. 2024
  • It’s made out of the brand’s popular Karuishi stretch fleece that provides warmth and breathability for biking, ski touring and all your high-intensity pursuits.
    — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Aurora Expeditions is offering two voyages with ski touring options this fall.
    — Melissa McGibbon, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2024
  • What to Know About Skimo Backpacks Compared to your granddad’s unwieldy ski touring pack, a skimo pack is sleek.
    — Anthony Walsh, Outside, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Skimo, sometimes called rando racing (from randonnée, a French term for ski touring), sits at the fanatical edge of this activity.
    — Nick Heil, Outside, 15 Jan. 2016
  • For the energetic, Pralognan is prime Nordic and ski touring territory onto the Glaciers de la Vanoise.
    — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 14 Feb. 2022
  • For anyone inspired by the Olympics this winter, could E-Skimo offer a more accessible entry point into the sport of ski touring?
    — Kendall Hunter, Outside, 14 Feb. 2026
  • And this one is small enough to carry in via pure muscle power while enjoying activities like hiking to a viewpoint, backpacking, bikepacking, canoe camping or ski touring.
    — New Atlas, 10 Nov. 2025
  • That said, the shell easily held up to a season of ski touring in Yellowstone, Canada, Iceland, and Greenland without any rips.
    — Frederick Reimers, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
  • In the heart of the Alps, the company has been developing and producing technologies for alpine, racing, ski touring, and cross-country skiing for more than 70 years.
    — Kimberly Beekman, Outside, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The Odin shell and bib use a new proprietary membrane built for the stop/start tendencies of ski touring; the hydrophobic microporous membrane that releases moisture quickly in cold and dry weather.
    — Outside Online, 6 Mar. 2019
  • Multi-day trips, winter camping, and specialized expeditions, like photography shoots, ski touring, hunting, or fishing, demand roomier packs.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 10 Sep. 2020

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