Show us yer Touring Quivers!

Dave, have been looking forward to finally mounting my new GPOs just so I get my quiver posted up!

Praxis GPO UL 187 for powder touring (Keith somehow got these down to 1825 grams per ski in a 3+ flex. Amazing build)
Moment Underworld 187 for everyday touring (Very composed and balance. Great all around ski)

Dalbello Lupo Carbon for crossover/travel boot
Dalbello Lupo AX 120 for dedicated touring boot (lighter than carbon. Put in my wrap/flex intuitions from the OG green lupos and 130 tongues from the carbons and they feel great on the floor test. Havent skied yet)

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Originally Posted by Va Ki Bo

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hell yes

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Originally Posted by Va Ki Bo

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You seem to be missing a binding there

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Originally Posted by Phildo_Baggins

You seem to be missing a binding there

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Yes, it's a bit annoying on the way up, but don't care while skiing.

Va Ki Bo for highest stoke/knowledge to post ratio I've seen in a long time.

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195 AK JJ / 187 HOJI / 185 COCHISE / 184 D-SENDER / 183 TST / 179 X DRIVE 88 / 179 MTN 95

BMT for spring and longer tours.
Skinny GPOs will hopefully work out for winter touring.
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Originally Posted by sf

Skinny GPOs will hopefully work out for winter touring.

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Why go skinny on the GPO's for winter conditions?? I guess the bg's are your deep day ski?

Also those gpo topsheets are foxy

can I bug you for length/weight on the skinny GPOs?

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Originally Posted by sruffian

Why go skinny on the GPO's for winter conditions?? I guess the bg's are your deep day ski?
Also those gpo topsheets are foxy

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Weight and skinning on harder snow. And I plan to bring them as a one ski travel quiver, if the conditons are less than stellar.

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Originally Posted by mbillie1

can I bug you for length/weight on the skinny GPOs?

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They are 187s, which would make them 186-ish. The BMTs and BGs are 186 as weel. Enduro 3+, 1950g approximately

Praxis Protest - Plum Guide - Backcountry set up
Volkl Katana - Kingpins - side country
Movement Source - Plum Guide backup gear

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Sexy time!

i'll play
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a pair of og 1st gen bros with silvertta pures from the days when tech binders maxed at 10 din and the boots were marginal
190 lotus 120 pures with atk freeraider 14 and sexy blue pomacas cash money rig
192 splatulas with dukes fuckin heavy but uber floating chargers
kusalas one with dyna radicals and well used
one with look branded rad 2's and nice in n outta bounds rig
192 lotus 138's with dynadukes mounted with verticals dont ski em as much as i could
early/late season lhasas pows that need vertical or a couple new holes for rads
sfotex hooked me up with another pair of atk freeraiders that i'm debating putting on jerantuala stiff kusalas or some 187 fat blems i need to luv up a bit
or score a new pair of lotus 124's
i'm driving them with a on its last legs pair of dyna titans that need replacing

I see we have a new contender in the 'most stickers' category.

nice quiver btw

Dang --- some nice rigs here!

70mm waisted volkl's are for dumb rocky shoulder season/ longer missions, even though they're not that light...
Vipec's go between the Volkls and Amperages.
I didn't put the Tours on the Enforcers...bought them like that.
Working on getting some midfat lighter touring skis.

BD Factors w/ Scarpa liner and Scarpa strap for lighter boots
Dynafit Titan TF-X for my beefy.

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187 Praxis Protest w/ Beast holes
187 GPO w/ Beast holes
190 Down Countdown 114 (1870g) w/ holes for ATK Raider 14
188 Salomon QST 106 w/ Kingpin
181 Down 104L w/ ATK Raider 14 (Down YW8 102 179cm in the picture though)
178 Zero G 85 w/ ATK RT Race
161 Dynafit DNA w/ some light bindings in the future (found in a dumpster and they seem to be ok)

Salomon MTN Lab
Arcteryx Procline Carbon

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god damn, what dumpsters are you diving in?

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173 Praxis exp (carbon/ul)
174 ON3P steeple 102
177 Praxis concept (carbon/enduro)
182 Praxis gpo (map core with CAST)
Tlt6’s (wc booster, dbl tongues, forward lean shim,Intuition Dreamliner waiting)
Lupo carbon ti (intuition pow, expert booster, thick forward lean shim)

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173 Praxis exp (carbon/ul)
174 ON3P steeple 102
177 Praxis concept (carbon/enduro)
182 Praxis gpo (map core with CAST)
Tlt6’s (wc booster, dbl tongues, forward lean shim,Intuition Dreamliner waiting)
Lupo carbon ti (intuition pow, expert booster, thick forward lean shim)

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Double tongues on the TLT6s?

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Originally Posted by skibrd

Double tongues on the TLT6s?

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I should have included those in the pic

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Keeps the flex more linear. Doesn’t collapse nearly as ez

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Originally Posted by grinch

I should have included those in the pic

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Keeps the flex more linear. Doesn’t collapse nearly as ez

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My issue with the TLT6P, and similar boots, is the bottom shoe part, below the cuff, collapses when I flex forward into the tongue. For the green version, it is the light green part that isn't stiff enough to support me at 6-4 200lbs, around the hinges loses all strength when I flex forward. I wonder if the double tongue would help or not. I might have to check that out. Even with doubling the tongues, they still are probably way lighter then the Lange XT Freetours I prefer over the TLT6P currently.

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Originally Posted by skibrd

My issue with the TLT6P, and similar boots, is the bottom shoe part, below the cuff, collapses when I flex forward into the tongue. For the green version, it is the light green part that isn't stiff enough to support me at 6-4 200lbs, around the hinges loses all strength when I flex forward. I wonder if the double tongue would help or not. I might have to check that out. Even with doubling the tongues, they still are probably way lighter then the Lange XT Freetours I prefer over the TLT6P currently.

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At 5”7’ 160lbs that still happens but these tongues definitely help. After I did this I see that people are shaping Vulcan tongues for the tlt6’s easily so that’s an option as well. I’m happy with these so I’ll just stay with them. I take them out for initial or longer climbs. The boot without tongues is a touch lighter than stock without tongues. I was surprised that the intuition liner was 1/4 lb lighter so it more than offsets the additional weight of the booster strap. I’m tempted to try a plug wrap intuition liner just to see how much skiing performance I can dig out of them . Current mods have been great

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Originally Posted by grinch

At 5”7’ 160lbs that still happens but these tongues definitely help. After I did this I see that people are shaping Vulcan tongues for the tlt6’s easily so that’s an option as well. I’m happy with these so I’ll just stay with them. I take them out for initial or longer climbs. The boot without tongues is a touch lighter than stock without tongues. I was surprised that the intuition liner was 1/4 lb lighter so it more than offsets the additional weight of the booster strap. I’m tempted to try a plug wrap intuition liner just to see how much skiing performance I can dig out of them . Current mods have been great

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Yeah, you are about the same size as my friends who can ski the TLT6Ps with similar mods. I got Intuition ProTours in them and that helped some. I sort of want to try booster straps and the heavier tongues, I just am not convinced that the real issue is I'm 9 inches taller and have 40lbs on everyone whose made similar mods. Big guys, big gear.

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Originally Posted by skibrd

Yeah, you are about the same size as my friends who can ski the TLT6Ps with similar mods. I got Intuition ProTours in them and that helped some. I sort of want to try booster straps and the heavier tongues, I just am not convinced that the real issue is I'm 9 inches taller and have 40lbs on everyone whose made similar mods. Big guys, big gear.

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Ya hard for me to tell . Lot of extra leverage there. The booster strap mainly just makes it a smoother predictable flex and is just super comfy. If you don’t care if you put holes in your tongues, and you have the greens and blacks, maybe try the double tongues first. Took me half hour and a couple $’s in t nuts
I had pro toungues but the mv was a little too much volume so I have some dreamliners that I’m waiting to mold up. Protongues helped the skiing a bit. Tongues are much more noticeable

Scored some killer deals over the weekend and the quiver expanded a bit.

170 Volkl rock skis
177 G3 Findr 86
178 Enforcers
173 Dynafit Stoke (going to try BF inserts + vipecs into them)
175 Black Diamond Amperage

BD Prime with Scarpa Intuition lines and Scarpa Powerstrap
Dyanfit Titans TF-X
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173 Dynafit Stoke (going to try BF inserts + vipecs into them)
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BD Prime with Scarpa Intuition lines and Scarpa Powerstrap
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Are you going to put inserts into the metal insert plate? Woah.

Also are those full size wiregate carabiners on the slants? Serving as leashes?

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Are you going to put inserts into the metal insert plate? Woah.

Also are those full size wiregate carabiners on the slants? Serving as leashes?

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Well they are camp nano's...which are smaller. I have yet to buy proper ski leashes so I made due with what I have :tongue: ...and they match...

And yeah inserts under the metal. Since I don't want to buy a set of dynafit's and I swap my pair of vipecs I need to do inserts. Outside of those resin dynafit "inserts" that lighter core material is a high density foam as far as I can tell/ researched . Also the mount pattern for the Vipecs isn't going to completely fit inside the "borders" of the resin, but will fit inside of that metal plate.

Between that and mounting the FINDrs (which also has titanal binding plates) my insert bit is going to need a sharpening. Left me wondering if 4.1mm bits have a different point angle to help them through the metal.

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lolololol the photochoped in Vulcan.

This you and your girlfriend?
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She got kicked out of bed after I married my Vulcans. lol.

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Well they are camp nano's...which are smaller. I have yet to buy proper ski leashes so I made due with what I have :tongue: ...and they match...

And yeah inserts under the metal. Since I don't want to buy a set of dynafit's and I swap my pair of vipecs I need to do inserts. Outside of those resin dynafit "inserts" that lighter core material is a high density foam as far as I can tell/ researched . Also the mount pattern for the Vipecs isn't going to completely fit inside the "borders" of the resin, but will fit inside of that metal plate.

Between that and mounting the FINDrs (which also has titanal binding plates) my insert bit is going to need a sharpening. Left me wondering if 4.1mm bits have a different point angle to help them through the metal.

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Ahh! Duh. Missed that you were doing vipecs, so that all makes sense. I have wintersteiger 4.1 and 3.6's, they look identical.

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What flex rating is the cat?

Those old garmont megarides were pretty soft but IMO skied ok and were damn comfy.

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What flex rating is the cat?

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bwahahahahha

COTD :D

Mbillie why you "walking the mall" these days? Is that old guy code for the skintrack?? ETA: also, how do you like those Lowdown 102s? I have the 186 LD 102s, but I never thought they were all that fun to ski - competent, yes, in all situations. I'm going to give the Raven a whirl and sell the LDs if I like em better...

Anyhoo, got an updated touring quiver...

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eh just felt like changing it cuz the old one was kinda close to my irl name lol. I loooooove the 102s, although my version is different from the LD102, it's the Countdown 102L and it has a shitload more rocker / a little lighter. I agree they aren't super fun, but in any kind of shitfuck snow / scary terrain, they are awesome to be on, because they ski 45º on graupel-covered wind-funk exactly the same as they ski 25º pow... no surprises ever, just swing em around and they obey.

I ski the movements more and more, but I'll never get rid of the 102Ls, and every time I have them in sketchy conditions/terrain I am super glad I still own them

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Makes sense. I wanted something a bit more playful and turny in that size. The LDs have a 41m (!!!) turning radius, and lots of camber, which makes for an interesting combo. Ravens have a 29m radius and fully rockered. I think I would have liked a 178 LD 90 better than the 186 / 102. Anyhoo... I will post up a comparo once I get enough days on my Ravens.

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Looks like a his and her quiver

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Looks like a his and her quiver

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Looks like a Canadian w/every binding *except* Ions. Cold...

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Mbillie why you "walking the mall" these days? Is that old guy code for the skintrack?? ETA: also, how do you like those Lowdown 102s? I have the 186 LD 102s, but I never thought they were all that fun to ski - competent, yes, in all situations. I'm going to give the Raven a whirl and sell the LDs if I like em better...

Anyhoo, got an updated touring quiver...

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The Ravens look great!