iain Posted January 15, 2003 Share Posted January 15, 2003 In case anyone's running O2's out there... BD O2 official recall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted January 15, 2003 Share Posted January 15, 2003 damn, I almost bought that binding... but fortunately, picked up some G3s instead. BD sure has not had much luck in its experiments with tele bindings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracked Posted January 15, 2003 Share Posted January 15, 2003 Yeah, what happened to the Skyhoy? Seemed promising, but they pulled it after one year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted January 15, 2003 Author Share Posted January 15, 2003 Skyhoy may make a comeback at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted January 16, 2003 Author Share Posted January 16, 2003 right on shred, my sentiments exactly. For me, the whole point of telemark is the light, solid, field-repairable gear. My biggest concern running AT gear is that if it breaks you're stranded. Voile 3-pins can be run with just pins, and if those rip you have cables and vice-versa. If I telemarked (and probably will end up doing so) that's exactly what I'd get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracked Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 I've got em and I like em. They tour great with the cables removed, ski well with the cables on, and are pretty durable. Only problem is, they obviously don't hold climbing boots. I climbed hood in my tele boots and found that they ski better than they climb (and this was the South Side!). The main problem is the duck-bill toe that keeps front points from penetrating. And I think that for climbing approaches AT would definitely beat snowshoes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texplorer Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 I prefer the ski-less approach, I have been miles into the backcountry and never had a "cable" break on me. As an added bonus I don't have as much problem on snowless approaches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted January 16, 2003 Author Share Posted January 16, 2003 I think I would get the newer Voile 3pin hardwires if I got some tele bindings though. heard good things about those. Tex, enjoy the posthole. Only 40 calories per step, quite a bargain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 but it's really not so much about the approach... it's about the descent. why walk down when you can ski?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texplorer Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 By the time you are at the top and exhausted from carrying your heavy skis and wearing your special superstiff, blister-maker boots I'm already half way down. This doesn't really apply to me anyway cause I'm not really interested in doing "slog" routes which don't involve vertical,technical sections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billygoat Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 I did break my voile 3-pin cable a couple weeks ago! I was skiing below Table Mountain and went over a snow covered boulder, caught some air then landed and was about to go over another and all of a sudden stopped dead in my tracks. when I untangled myself I found I had treaded my left ski thru an overturned root ball The impact broke the bail hook bar and I could not clamp it down I was able, however, to tightenup the cables, jam my boot in there and ski down and out to the parking lot in fourteen years of back country touring with voile and 3 pins in general I have yet to be let down. I must say, though, that if those bindings had not been mounted to shims that were mounted to the skis with five instead of three screws, the binding would have ripped out. I am not sure why my knee didn't rip out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 sure, different applications... obviously you can't take skis up (and down) everything. But living in the pnw, if you ever find yourself climbing any one of these volcanoes, being able to ski off is pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 Don't try and reason with Tex Rodger. He just plain sucks ass. Freshiez rule, but there isn't a lot of freshieness this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoboy Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 Where you at AlpineK? OR? I heard it was raining down there and one of the Hood hills had to close! We've been skiing freshiez lots up here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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