Gear Heavy vs. Light AT Setups

[karlo]

A few weeks ago I toured Hoosier Pass

This past weekend I toured the Geisslers on Independence Pass

I even took them out the next day at A Basin

You're making me feel sad.

 

[karlo]

You're making me feel sad.

Just kidding! So awesome the gear works so well for you.

 

[Snowflake2420]

haha thanks. Fortunate to be in CO in a good snow year with good partners. Here are a few pics from my adventures.

Hoosier Pass

Looking at our first run

I'm in the blue helmet

Independence Pass
Looking toward the Geisslers

Looking back toward the pass

On the new boards

A Basin

 

[pais alto]

haha thanks. Fortunate to be in CO in a good snow year with good partners. Here are a few pics from my adventures.

Hoosier Pass

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Wait...what? A fox?

 

[Snowflake2420]

Wait...what? A fox?

Yep got lucky it stopped with a view of Mt Lincoln too haha!

 

[karlo]

I've procured the La Ninas with Kingpins and am very happy.

And, very lucky, considering the thread "Marker Stops Selling Kingpin Binding"

That photo with the fox, I suppose, we already know that you are lucky.

 

[Snowflake2420]

And, very lucky, considering the thread "Marker Stops Selling Kingpin Binding"

That photo with the fox, I suppose, we already know that you are lucky.

Haha for sure! I've only used them a few times so we'll see how they hold up. I feel like I'm in the minority. Markers have worked just fine for me in both touring and alpine bindings.

 

[TheBestSkier]

I got rid of all my Dukes and am strictly running Dynafit for binders. I will never go back.

I don't think anyone mentioned the noise of the Dukes. It's this awful metal and plastic clanging with each heavy step. They also require a lot of scraping when you get a little wet snow in there. Your boot also sits real high on your ski in Dukes.

I think the pipe used belongs to whoever is breaking trail. They get it ready while everyone catches up.

 

[Snowflake2420]

I got rid of all my Dukes and am strictly running Dynafit for binders. I will never go back.

I don't think anyone mentioned the noise of the Dukes. It's this awful metal and plastic clanging with each heavy step. They also require a lot of scraping when you get a little wet snow in there. Your boot also sits real high on your ski in Dukes.

I think the pipe used belongs to whoever is breaking trail. They get it ready while everyone catches up.

I used F10 Tours for a brief time and the sound was not nice along with everything else, heavy, felt like i was going to break the frame traversing a slope etc.

 

[Mothertucker]

Not to mention that you have to exit the binding to switch modes, which could be seen as a safety factor I suppose, but a deal killer for me.

 

[Doug Briggs]

Not to mention that you have to exit the binding to switch modes, which could be seen as a safety factor I suppose, but a deal killer for me.

In a dicey location is it safer to pull the skins off with the skis on than to take the skis off? I can do it, I sometimes do, but I don't do it in a location where I am in a no fall situation. In those situations I keep the downhill ski on, take the uphill ski then the skin off, lock the binding, and replace it. Turn 180* and repeat. I always have an edge in the snow, I'm not doing gymnastics and I don't post hole.

 

[jmeb]

In a dicey location is it safer to pull the skins off with the skis on than to take the skis off? I can do it, I sometimes do, but I don't do it in a location where I am in a no fall situation. In those situations I keep the downhill ski on, take the uphill ski then the skin off, lock the binding, and replace it. Turn 180* and repeat. I always have an edge in the snow, I'm not doing gymnastics and I don't post hole.

I think it depends on your facility with taking skins off without taking skis off. Either can be done safely. My AIARE1 instructor and guide for our class/3-day hut trip did often repeat the mantra "boots, bindings, skins" as the most efficient way to transition. That is, strap your boots, step into your bindings, then rip your skins. This makes sense to me on terrain up to about 35 degrees. Over that and I would be nervous about the cross-over action required to rip skins.

 

[Rod9301]

In a dicey location is it safer to pull the skins off with the skis on than to take the skis off? I can do it, I sometimes do, but I don't do it in a location where I am in a no fall situation. In those situations I keep the downhill ski on, take the uphill ski then the skin off, lock the binding, and replace it. Turn 180* and repeat. I always have an edge in the snow, I'm not doing gymnastics and I don't post hole.

If you're taking the skins off you're on a slope of 30 degrees of less.

Take the the uphill ski off, put uphill boot on the snow below the downhill ski, plant the ski you took off with the tail in the snow to anchor yourself, take off the downhill ski.

No need for the 180.

If the snow is so hard the that you think that your boot will slip, put your crampons on.

 

[BoofHead]

Or Hannes Schnieder:

I want some of whatever this bloke has in his pipe. He's trippin'.

 

[CalG]

If you're taking the skins off you're on a slope of 30 degrees of less.

Take the the uphill ski off, put uphill boot on the snow below the downhill ski, plant the ski you took off with the tail in the snow to anchor yourself, take off the downhill ski.

No need for the 180.

If the snow is so hard the that you think that your boot will slip, put your crampons on.

Can crampons be fitted without removing the ski from the boot or gymnastics equal to ripping skins while one footed?

 

[jmeb]

Can crampons be fitted without removing the ski from the boot or gymnastics equal to ripping skins while one footed?

Ski crampons can be fitted without removing the ski.

Boot crampons absolutely need to be removed from the ski. Like...by definition.

 

[Ken_R]

Can crampons be fitted without removing the ski from the boot or gymnastics equal to ripping skins while one footed?

Its much easier than removing skins.. I mean, you need to be pretty flexible! but they can be put on the skis without removing them. They usually slide in on the rear of the toe piece of the binding.