Unisex Touring Poles Escaper Tour

The Rossignol Escaper Tour is a fixed-length aluminum touring pole built around a 7075 Zicral alloy shaft — a high-grade aluminum that splits the difference between the swing weight of carbon and the forgiveness of standard alloy. At around 190g per pole (at 100cm), they're genuinely light for an aluminum stick, and the 16mm cylindrical shaft gives you enough stiffness to push off on flat skin track without flex that wastes energy. The long foam grip runs higher than a typical resort pole and is shaped with a wide upper flare so you can choke up when the pitch steepens without taking your hand out of the strap. Two baskets ship in the box — an 85mm powder basket for soft snow and a smaller 60mm alpine basket when you're back on-piste — and swapping them takes seconds. The strap is a simple, lightweight recycled-material safety design that releases on a hard fall, which matters in the backcountry. There's also a small hook molded into the top of the grip, useful for flipping a splitboard binding lever or poking a heel piece without bending over in a ski boot.

These are a solid choice for the skier who tours regularly but doesn't need the compressibility of a foldable pole or the fine-tuned length adjustment of a telescopic — someone doing lift-accessed sidecountry, resort-to-backcountry days, or straightforward skin tracks where a fixed length is no liability. The four-size run (105–135cm) covers most adults. Who should look elsewhere: if you're doing variable-pitch alpine touring where you'd want to shorten the pole for steep climbing and lengthen it for descents, the Rossignol Escaper Tour Telescopic Carbon is a better fit. If you need a packable pole that stows in a backpack for a technical ski mountaineering objective, the Escaper Tour Foldable XV is the one to consider instead. But for an uncomplicated, light, well-equipped touring pole at a sensible price, this does the job without anything superfluous bolted onto it.