We’ve been fortunate here at The High Route to have some pre-production looks, access, and perhaps some small influence on ZipFit’s latest touring liner. A few years back, I reviewed the GFT; ZipFit’s first iteration of touring liner. Their goal with the GFT was to add some walking ability to a standard ZipFit liner. The result was an amazing downhill experience, decent walking performance, but a downright heavy liner at ~600g. In my conversations with Jeff at ZipFit during that review process, I mentioned how awesome it would be to have a similar fit and some of the GFT’s performance in a lighter build.
Here we are, maybe three seasons after that comment, ZipFit has released the Espresso liner, which, ironically, is far better suited to skiing on the GFT’s namesake mountain, the Grand (F**kin) Teton. The Espresso is perhaps best described as a hybrid between an Intuition Tour Tongue and a traditional ZipFit. Perhaps most importantly, it maintains the amazing fit characteristics of other ZipFits, with cork pouches at the ankles and tongue to add/subtract volume and provide incompressible foot-holding and molding.
