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I’ve tried to get those outlaw brakes to work but they were too finicky when trying to get in I ditched them pretty quickly. I do wish I had brakes and no leashes but yeah, not any big deal to leash up. I do get anxious tho when the skis are off my feet cause they could slide away very easily.
OK, that has happened to me. Entirely my fault, and I got lucky in that it got hung up about 200' feet below us.Quote:
Originally Posted by jmedslc
ETA: and it happed to a someone on Shifts when he ripped his skins off before deploying the brakes. It was icy that day and that thing took off a like a torpedo into a tree well.
Every time I’ve thrown a toe on a 75mm binding, I broke a leash. The first time was on a pair of explosives on a beginner run (classic loose spring cartridge issue), the ski rocketed down the run, hit a tree, and bent the ski. The nearly new leash was still attached to my boot.
Eta, I sent a single ski down several hundred vert ft bowl transitions from skiing to booting a couloir. Luckily, it didn’t hit anything. My partner and I change our plans for the evening at that point because we would not be able to complete our objective. That’s a type of instance when you know you have a good ski partner.
I threw a hammerhead some years back and a Black Diamond leash snapped. Ski took off, went some 600 feet down the slope and into the trees. This will be fun I thought after hoofing it downslope. It hit a tree about 10 feet off the trail. Lotta snow that year so would have been hard to find otherwise. Yeah, Black Diamond!
T4 is not discontinued, but very few retailers order them so scarpa doesn't make that many any more. This season they sure seemed like they were discontinued and its just because they were the last priority boot to produce with the supply chain issues. The T4 has much more of a place in the lineup for heavy XCD skiing with fishscale skis and the like. It is also nice to have the T2 for old fogeys/smaller and lighter skiers who like the soft flex of 75mm. If you want the power of a 4 buckle 75mm boot you might as well be on NTN. NTN has much more lateral control, which is the whole reason we switched to plastic boots in the first place.Quote:
Originally Posted by bio-smear
T3 was discontinued. I believe that the t4 is actually the old purple t3 but in black.
My xcd boot is a system boot, burly Fischer’s with sns-bc. The new rotte xcd system boot is interesting. I’m not sold on that idea of the pins being in the boot, but I haven’t seen them in real life.
My wife got a pair of the black T4s relatively recently; she likes 'em. They're actually not at all like old T3s, which I'm well acquainted with (more on that in a moment). Personally, for the majority of the backcountry I do that isn't bleeding edge steepness, I'm happiest with a pair of Excursions (Garmont/Scott's T4 equivalent). I can handle 'em on the downhills and they're just lighter and better feeling for everything else.
I even kept my first year rootbeer T3s in the mix... until just last month when this happened. Oops! Yeah, plastic does degrade after a few decades:
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That picture is hilarious. It's like they melted in the snow.
How difficult is teleboarding?
Do regular 75 mm boots works?
Asking for a friend
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Teleboard-T...-127632-2357-0
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Check the teleboarding died at birth thread
I stand corrected. Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobz
Sorry about your boot. Are you going to look into those new rotte bindings?
yes those are some old 75mm Voile bindings which are really cheap, the binding mounts to inserts that fit the 3 hole pattern so they are easy to setup, somewhat like a snowboard, you can either be setup pointed regular or goofyQuote:
Originally Posted by jhyatt
i bought a Teleboard about 20 yars ago cuz they were on sale so i thot why not try some thing different?
I said this to one of the Fey brothers when i ordered the board he said
" oh yeah you will be different, you will be the anti christ "
Teleboard & I didnt really gel, there was zero resale possibilities so when the friend of a friend expressed interest but had a problem getting it past the wife I said " just take it, try it if you like it send me some post dated cheques " he bought the board & sent the cheques but she found out anyway
that seller has a better chance of being hit by lightning than selling that Tele-board
Those Rottes look interesting; hopefully they'll fill the niche between NNN-BC and two-buckle duckbill plastic boots.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
I always liked the sole flex of Asolo leathers, but my Summits softened to the point where they had less edge control than NNN-BCs, and both my second and third pairs of Extremes were too hard on my feet and I finally just gave up on them. Not to mention the Glissades, that I loved until the sole separation (long ago) that they were known for. And shopping around more recently, it seems that all the lighter duty three-pin boots (Alpina Alaska, and models from Fischer and Rossi) are also known for sole separation problems; you're better off going with the NNN-BC versions of those boots (I'm using some Rossi BC-X5s in NNN-BC on my XC touring skis, and I'm pretty happy with them).
So yeah, I definitely think there's a place for something with better control than NNN-BC, but without the stiff flex of (even T4-class) plastic tele boots. The new binding would probably be perfect on those Catamounts in the above photo (though it would be a shame to unmount those Chouinards). Or on all the waxless patterned backcountry skis people are basically XC touring on, that are 80 or 90 underfoot, a too wide IMO for NNN-BC.
Oh, and I took another look at the T4s, and they are somewhat similar to the original T3s, but not the same. The cuffs look a bit higher, for one thing. I can't do a direct comparison, as the last of our T3s went into a dumpster in Bishop.
My wife still has her old T3’s, shells seem OK but the liners badly need replacing. She doesn’t get out backcountry meadowskipping much these days though, so no biggie.
I love my leather scarpa wasatch for meadowskipping, either in some switchback x2, or in some voile 3-pin mountaineers on the skinny sticks. I will cry long time if they ever give up the ghost.
I had a pair of the old purple T3's, got them well used from MEC, gave them to a former GF
Then i went AT starting out with some Garmont Xena's, which I gave them to the next former GF
YES, there is a disturbing pattern of enticing seemingly smart women who should know better
to sleep with me by giving them ski boots
More disturbing is having the same size bootQuote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
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did you miss the "laziest AZN "designation ?
small feet from many centuries of foot binding
A real problem trying to find boots in a size 24
but as a fat gwai lo wtf would you know ?
Teleboarding isn’t crazy hard. But it just never felt right. It feels different. It looks different.
Mostly I hated just being locked into one position. It’s a permanent monomark all day long.
Lead changes feel good
Left a pair of those boots at my buddy's cottage so they could be used by my buds when we went there in the winter. Bugger gave them to Sally Anne. He is known for throwing things away without much care. Drugs in the pocket? More than once they have been sacrificed to a campfire or destroyed in the washing machine. Oof!Quote:
Originally Posted by BCMtnHound
Such a long drive. My size too.Quote:
Originally Posted by jmedslc
I have T4s with Intuition Denalis. Love those boots.
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Originally Posted by bio-smear
We have some disconnects in our communication, probably because I ramble. What I was trying to say it that I want essentially an NTN T4 so i can use it with TTS and all its contemporaries like the Kreuzspitze telemark kit or any tech toe frankenbinding. I used the term "pin" to mean tech toe pins, not 3 pins.Quote:
Originally Posted by TeleBeaver
I've been on NTN since almost the start. But dragging my 4-buckle boots out for a rolling tour around the lake is not gonna happen.
New, good problems. Anyone used one or more of this combo?
Fischer Ranger 94 FR. Found a good deal on them. Been wanting a mid width daily driver for tele. Also migrating away from Freerides and want to try something with a tech toe so I grabbed some Meidjo 3s.
Kinda bought the Rangers blind but reviews say they're medium stiff and playful for higher end skiers. I did read the Blister review and noted the flex pattern. I dunno if that's me but I'm heavier (6'1" 220lbs—all muscle and testicle except for the mid section) and one morning in winter 2009 I slayed some shit on alpine gear.
Now telemark...I'm ok. Definitely hold back a fair amount with the free heel and these days I just like to play in pow and soft snow. Tend to ski taller, not lower.
Blister guys said they liked the 94 FRs mounted forward of the recommended line a bit, so i was thinking of mounting these Meidjos ON the line rather than my standard -2cm.
Anyway I really like the color combo. Will I rip these fuckers out of the ski if I keep my knee off the deck? lemme know now before I punch 13 holes or whatever it is.
Thanks.
^That sounds like a sweet setup. Pretty sure that ski has some metal in it right? My wife has some Hannibal 96's with A/T bindings, the construction is solid and I wouldn't hesitate to mount them telemark based on how solid the mount feels on them. I'd think the Ranger would have even burlier construction and make a bomber tele ski.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtTMqJvExY4This run is no longer there thanks to a landslide.
@BioSmear - don’t know jack about where to mount Meidjo on those skis, but Meidjo versions 2.1 and 3 were changed slightly to make sure they didn’t pull out. Some deep knee benders experienced pull out with version 1.2 and 2.0. I have 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0 and so far no pull outs, in fact I haven’t broken anything yet.
Post a question here and some really nerdgeeks will totally help you out:
https://www.backcountrytalk.com/
And say thrunt a lot, because they have their panties way in a wad.
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Returning to the freeheel life and I’m pretty excited about it
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You should be. Those look sweet!!Quote:
Originally Posted by BeHuWe
Agree. Stoked to see and read about others new setups.
Telemark skied for the first time on Thursday back where I learned to ski over 30 years ago.
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That's not free heeling; that's suffering.
Congrats!Quote:
Originally Posted by thefrush
Lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
FWIW, I found mammoth mtn in the springtime a great place to learn to tele. Long corn runs were really conducive, for me, for learning. Also, having a shop in town with rentals was critical.
And mammoth has some good runs for learning to make steeps tele turns. I found out that I could tumbledown hangman’s after botching my first or second turn and go right through the funnel unscathed. I also learned quite a bit following (and observing) good tele skiers at the hill. Watching how they were able to haul ass and confidently ski down runs like climax and the chutes off ch23 helped me a lot.
Does anyone happen to have a spare forefoot buckle for a TX-Pro?
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Does anyone happen to have a spare forefoot buckle for a TX-Pro?
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No, but I had a similar buckle break and I drilled a horizontal hole and used baling wire to replace that broken shaft as a temporary fix.
The fix has worked perfectly for 2 seasons, so I’m leaving as is
probably can use a different buckle from a different boot
I’ll see you down at freeheel life this afternoon. Haha. I broke the cable on mid step buckle on my tx comp over the weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peruvian
This week I have been telemarking a lot and now my big toe really hurts to the point where I had to go back to my alpine stuff.
When I bend the bellows it jams my foot forwards and my toe jams. My toenail really hurts.
Boots feel like they fit ok otherwise.
I researched and everything says to get boots that fit that's it...