Att zipfit gurus!

[tang]

^^^ ah, ok that is great to hear. I guess I’d been looking at the older Gara. 315 is much more interesting as a touring option. Thx!

[GoldenBC]

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I haven&rsquo;t read the whole thread I admit, so apologies if this is well covered. But I don&rsquo;t understand the weight on their liners marketed for touring. I believe they&rsquo;re 550+ grams per liner, so 2x plus an intuition or similar. And then I see reviews of touring boots on say Blister, where a reviewer talks up how how some 1300 gr stock boot skis, and then later sidenotes that they&rsquo;re running it with zipfits - so it&rsquo;s really a 1600 ish gr boot. I understand all the positives on em for resort boots but they just seem way heavy for touring. Semi rant I guess, but also a semi question if I&rsquo;m missing something! Cuz these definitely have a hardcore following and I occasionally get intrigued.

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Because some people tour and focus on ski quality. They may bring bigger skis, they want to ski like they are on hill, and they want a good fitting boot. Intuition can&#39;t touch zipfit in terms of fit and liner density. Most notably is how during a day of touring, a zipfit liner doesn&#39;t go all loose and mushy like an Intuition does because of the heat. As someone who can get free Intuitions, there has not been a single day that I would prefer to use them over my Zipfits.</p>

[OttoP]

As a 100kg person touring 60-80 days per winter in GFT&#39;s, I&#39;d wager it&#39;s something else thats limiting my uphill travel than the few hundred grams extra per feet.
Not using the lightest skis either, but I can slog on for long days (+1800m vert etc.) as long as the pace is leisurely (z1-z2) and the track is reasonably not steep.
Been investing quite a bit of effort in dryland strength training in recent years too. Not planning to break any fkt&#39;s of course. Maybe the weight is more noticeable for smaller persons.