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Another gear question-- for tele folks
- Thread starter mollmeister
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And for the record - all that damage was from alpine skiing or touring on traditional AT gear or, you know, brilliant things like tripping on a root while walking in summer (though that was after things were already a mess)...
Knock on wood, but my knees have been much happier on tele gear.
SkiGAP
Angel Diva
*whew*!
mollmeister
Angel Diva
I have been fantasizing about ski gear and skiing. It's what has gotten me through the festival of barfing children this last week!
Jenny
Angel Diva
That festival doesn't sound like much fun at all.
SkiGAP
Angel Diva
I feel you! I have had to take the last two WE off, so I haven't skied since my first day on the Kikus. And as for gear, all of this Savory talk - plus the fact that two good guy friends got Soul7s, make me want to try them - I might even take alpine boots to Italy to *gulp* demo!
Erhh... what sort of additional stress/danger/demage touring on AT gear can potentially involve, on top of those from alpine skiing?
(I'm on the brink of jumping on the AT bandwagon -- only because it's more straight forward and less of a learning curve than learning tele from scratch. But given I already have some old injuries/issues from years of alpine skiing, I do like to know whatever gotcha there is with AT touring vs tele touring)
I don't think it had anything to do with the gear. I had a bad incident where I was doing a kick turn on AT gear and the snow collapsed under my weighted foot. My knees already had a lot of issues, and that made my knee lock bent and we couldn't get it to straighten out. So I had to ski down on one leg (and hop/get dragged uphill on that one leg by my husband). It was kind of nightmare and why I gave up backcountry skiing (at least wherever it involves kick turns...)
With that one, I doubt it would have made any difference what gear I was on.
SkiGAP
Angel Diva
Horrifying. Glad it didn't take you out for good.
It took me out for that season, that's for sure. It was stuck bent for several days until I could have surgery to clean out the torn meniscus.
TeleChica
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Altagirl, that sounds just terrifying. <shudder>
To get back to the OPs questions (and because I love to talk about gear), it sounds like a Scarpa boot would probably work best for your feet. You can probably find lots of used or on-sale versions out there.
As for binding, consider what matter most to you. Are you interested in a releasable binding? Do you want a more "active" binding, which tends to give you a bit more control (and also tend to parallel a bit easier)? Do you think you'll do some touring? If so, look for a binding that has a free pivot.
If you're not that picky, just get something on sale. Avoid the Voile 3-pin cable, which are for a lighter tele set up.
I'd also take a lesson--it really helps shorten the learning curve.
Have fun!
To get back to the OPs questions (and because I love to talk about gear), it sounds like a Scarpa boot would probably work best for your feet. You can probably find lots of used or on-sale versions out there.
As for binding, consider what matter most to you. Are you interested in a releasable binding? Do you want a more "active" binding, which tends to give you a bit more control (and also tend to parallel a bit easier)? Do you think you'll do some touring? If so, look for a binding that has a free pivot.
If you're not that picky, just get something on sale. Avoid the Voile 3-pin cable, which are for a lighter tele set up.
I'd also take a lesson--it really helps shorten the learning curve.
Have fun!
TeleChica
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
As a stickler for releasables, I'm on the Voile CRB, which aren't made any more :( (although I know one place in Vermont that still has the 3-pin version). I have the Hardwire version (non 3-pin) for resort and 3-pin for touring. The 3-pin version allows you to remove the heal throw on the climb. I would LOVE a free-pivot binding for touring, but I'm not willing to give up releaseability and don't have the coin for NTN.
TeleChica
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
There are some release plates you can buy and attach your bindings to. It adds some weight, but for the resort that's not really an issue.
More info here:
https://www.telebry.com/index.html
More info here:
https://www.telebry.com/index.html
Do you find that your releaseables work well?
I had some 7TM bindings back when I first started and I figured I could live with the fact that I didn't like the feel of them in exchange for releasability. Only - that was when I was learning and crashed fairly frequently... and they never once released on me. Which made eventually me figure, well, what the hell. If I can't get them to release when I do crash, I might as well ski on bindings that I like... And knock on wood, but I don't hit the ground much these days and don't take many risks.
But it's been a while, so maybe more current releaseable options actually, you know, work.
SkiGAP
Angel Diva
yeah I've seen those. Will contemplate...
TeleChica
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
altagirl, the CRBs definitely release; I actually think they work reasonably well. Nothing is perfect, as you know.
I completely agree with you about 7Tms--never liked the feel of those. Even the 7tm power, which is more "active" still feels sleepy underfoot.
Can't comment on any of the others. The CRBs were the best of the bunch IMO. Bummer they stopped making them.
I completely agree with you about 7Tms--never liked the feel of those. Even the 7tm power, which is more "active" still feels sleepy underfoot.
Can't comment on any of the others. The CRBs were the best of the bunch IMO. Bummer they stopped making them.
geargrrl
Angel Diva
Does anyone?
