Daymakers vs Shifts

Shifts are great

It just depends on how long of tours you will be doing. Short tours just get daymakers for long tours go shifts and new boots. Sounds like you'd be fine with daymakers.

CatdickBojanglesIt just depends on how long of tours you will be doing. Short tours just get daymakers for long tours go shifts and new boots. Sounds like you'd be fine with daymakers.

Spot on. If you want a setup FOR touring - the shifts are the real deal. If you want to be able to tour sometimes - daymakers. Ideally you should get another pair of skis, buy the shifts/tech-fit boots and have that as your touring set up.

I have and use both, the daymakers were great until the lifts stopped spinning and touring became our only option. They're a great tool and work smooth; but any hikes over 30-45 min and your partners will be way ahead of you. They're just so damn heavy when paired with pivots; on longer tours, the weight will make you reconsider.

I was extremely skeptical of the shifts after mounting countless pairs; and I'm constantly breaking equipment. I bought them once the world and all ski lifts shut down - and I won't be looking back. I'll continue to use the daymakers for the occasional side-country and jump-specific missions. But the shifts feel really solid in ski mode and hike incredibly well. I'm sold.

Hope this helps - was in the same dilema at the beginning of this season!

**This post was edited on May 13th 2020 at 4:49:35pm

Cheers team, all pretty helpful input, think I’ll throw in the extra $$$ and put on some shifts, sounds like it’ll be worth it cause chances are I will do a few longer touring days this season

Get a Cast system when they drop this summer for the pivot 15/18, shifts are great but super finicky, price wise for what they do they’re not bad though, still about to get kingpins instead. Daymakers are good, the risers on them are fucking awesome it’s just weight and the fact you have a metal plate running across your binding that makes kick turns a bit more work but they’re awesome for a novice BC person or some beast who can hustle big lines on them.

If this is mainly your all mountain ski then I would 100% go with Daymakers. I have never been let down by them and I don't think I would want to be riding all over the place on some bindings that I dropped the kind of cash on that you have to spend on shifts. Leave the Daymakers at home when you are riding lifts all day 90% of the time and then they will be in prime shape that day when you do want to go out and tour

If you've never toured much before and never used touring bindings of any kind, daymakers can be a good choice. That is, until you actually use a touring binding and quickly realize daymakers are a clunky too high off the ski pain in the ass haha