Best Hybrid Touring Bindings

Salomon S/Lab Shift MNC 13 Alpine Touring - Review 2025

By: Derek Doyle & Annie Gunton - Updated: April 2025

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Derek Doyle

Contributor at SlopeMagazine.com

Hailing from Aspen, Colorado, Derek began his skiing career in the illustrious Powder Pandas ski school program, eventually sort of growing up to ski professionally in slopestyle and big air, while moonlighting as a ski tuner and writer.

Now living in Colorado’s front range, Derek can be found among the i70 crowd racing to find hidden powder stashes on the back bowls of Vail, on Park Lane in Breckenridge, under the lights on Keystone, and returning home to the High Alpine steeps in Snowmass. When he's not skiing he’s wishing he was, or nerding out on mountain biking, climbing, and golf.

Annie Gunton

Editor at SlopeMagazine.com

Annie has lived on 4 continents and traveled through 6. Spending her time in places as different as London and the Kalahari she has adapted how she gets out and enjoys what’s around.

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Salomon S Lab Shift Mnc 13 Alpine Touring Product

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The Salomon S/Lab Shift MNC (Multi Norm Certified) 13 bindings are an evolutionary step forward in big mountain skiing, equipping big mountain skiers with hybrid alpine touring bindings that are compatible for uphill touring and WTR (Walk to Ride) while being safe release DIN certified for resort skiing, and maintain the power transfer of traditional alpine bindings. They’re really a do-it-all tool for true ALL-mountain skiing.

We can break this binding down into two categories; what it can do going uphill and what it can do going downhill. On the ascent, it features a carbon-infused lightweight design, tech pin-engaged climbing, a two-position riser in the heel for skin track compatibility, and it is compatible with certain types of crampons.

It has a touring mode setting, but tech-fitting boots are required to use this function. On the descent, it features an ample 13 DIN volume, compatibility with both alpine and GripWalk boots, and the same responsiveness as its alpine cousins.

Just by having enough material for alpine skiing, they aren’t as light as true touring bindings at 1780 grams, and they certainly aren’t cheap, but they do give you ultimate freedom for all-mountain and resort-ish backcountry skiing.