The ATK C-Raider, Raider & Raider Evo's are all superb but you must mount them with the optional Freeride Spacer Kit as that greatly improves power transmission, especially on skis 95mm+ in width.
@under a new name, for your height/weight the C-Raider (315g) with the Freeride Spacer Kit (29g) would be spot on. And you can easily removed with brakes if that's what you prefer (and install the spacer to fill the brake void to stop it icing up etc) and save 40g per binding.
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@spyderjon, thanks for the rec. I’m not sure I’m allowed any purchases in the immediate future thiugh haha!
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@BobinCH, well I am told I need a goid season out of the current rig first
Life’s too short for negative thoughts like that!
He says having just pulled the trigger on a couple of pairs of new DPS bananas
I read about this. Only available in the US and you get a max of $500 credit for new skis down to $100 for « poor » condition skis which basically get serviced and resold on geatrade for $800-900 for the « excellent » condition ones. Surely you’d get more for them getting any shop to service them and sell 2nd hand?
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Any recommendations for touring boot liners ? (make & model)
Have used intuition in the past.
@BobinCH - how have your Sidas liners worked / held out?
@BobinCH - how have your Sidas liners worked / held out?
Pretty good I’d say. Have them in the Zero-G Tour Pros which are my most comfortable boots and get used with the DPS Pagoda Tour 112’s. Very comfortable and seem to be hard wearing - no obvious wear after circa 50 days use?
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Not sure if this has been posted on here or not....
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
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I don't really get it. Good for them for setting up a business (rentals and guiding), and I'm sure the locals appreciate some extra tourism too. However it's not really a "resort", and I'm struggling to see the USP of why someone would go there.
The article mentions bluebird backcountry in Colorado (which is now closed due to not being profitable). The concept is similar but there's one huge difference. Bluebird did avy control. So it appealed to people who enjoy touring but dont have partners and/or want to deal with decision making/planning related to avy risk.
At homeland you are talking €165 per day for all kit rental and a guide. By the time you add on the food and accomodation they are way more expensive than UCPA splitboard offerings, which also include a lift pass. So they are hardly some super cheap option either.
I suspect there are enough daytrippers/weekend visits from Milan for them to make a business out of it. I don't see the appeal as a destination "resort".
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
"Ski touring can often be prohibitively expensive "
Que?
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This was not really a Wally tour but a nice adventure, and what a bonus to be able to ski high alpine lines in November!
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Bosh. Mont Géle?
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A slap on the wrist for thread drift though
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@HammondR, they are the Plum guide, so I'll see how they feel when I get them strapped on!
Going back to this. I skied the touring skis on piste the other week up in Hintertux. Couldn't feel any difference, so perhaps I have little sensitivity down there for delta angles!
I already knew my touring boots are a size too big for me, what I hadn't noticed previously is just how much less control I have as a result. So, at some point this season, i'll be buying a new pair of touring boots that actually fit!
Binding wise, no issues with the Scott Superguides with the Plum bindings, I can easily adjust those, the Volkl Revolt's with the shifts, I'm not sure, and haven't had a look at. Perhaps I should contact @spyderjon who mounted them!
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@swskier, you looked at a hybrid boot at all?
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@kitenski, meticulously timed. Just picked up these badgers from the boot fitmaster general himself, CEM. The walk mode is game changing. Skiing to find out soon…
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@kitenski, haven't looked at anything, but currently own a pair of Nordica STRider 120s that are a few seasons old, but they have had very little use at all.
Wouldn't use them as my normal piste boot though as I ski in a pair of race boots, so they'd very much be the pair I only wear if I'm skiing the Scott Superguides or the Volkl Revolts, whether that's touring or just lift served powder days.
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You know it makes sense.
Wally Alert
Went up on the E-Mtb to see what the snow's like on the South side and if there was Spring snow to be had, as even though we have some pretty intense sunshine and higher temps in the valley, this time of year actual transformation, if at all is obviously totally different to Spring, plus didn't know what the strong winds had done to the snow-pack?
Was good to go up anyway as now I know how far to go, and what time to leave, to allow for a 90/120min skin eventually, and what condition the trail is in and more importantly what the melt is like and how that affects the descent on the bike!
I was all rather optimistic, until half way up I had a light bulb moment, in that I realised I'd forgotten my skins
Trouble is with the bike, it's more gear & faff, but that is a first.
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@Weathercam, commiserations! Can I have your ebike when you move into the OAP home?
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Been on the powder touring rig last couple of days. Got to say the DPS Pagoda Tour / ATK FR / Zero G setup is so damn good
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Just mounted ATK Raider 12's with toe shims and freeride spacers on my DPS Wailers after the 5 year-old Alpinists shat themselves, I repaired them but have put them on an old pair of powder skis to use locally just in case.......
But the R12 is an awesome binding, way easier to step into than the Alpinist, has brakes and 3 riser positions and only around 30g heavier than the Alpinists with leashes, beautifully made and no known issues that I can see!
Just need some snow now.........
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BTW, used 108mm brakes with a slight tweak on the 112mm skis
@Weathercam, this is the sort of scenes i'm aspiring to with our Hund in the future!
A very kind dropped round 2 pairs of Scott Cosmo boots to try tonight, 27.5 and a 28, so i'll give them a whirl soon. 633g lighter per boot than my Nordica's, so i'll notice the difference massively I suspect.
First touring outing for me will be this weekend on Christmas Eve, and you can barely even call it a tour. I'll just be taking the dog from the top of the Gondola along a summer road to the restaurant the other half works in to spend the afternoon there getting in the festive spirit!
Just shy of 2km and 160m incline.
This is the route on google maps:
And you can see the road/route in this picture taken from the outside of the Hütte:
Looking forward to it though, and it'll be a nice easy intro for the dog again, having done a couple of similar walks in Val D/Tignes last Christmas.
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Little video of yesterday's sortie featuring "my" rapid skin transition though not as fast as Ski-Mo ones
Just a little loop in Hintertux with Mrs Swskier and the hund up to the Bichlalm Hütte for some lunch.
It was going well, until 20 metres before the car park, the hund decided to run between my legs and is now sporting some rather dodgy looking cuts on the paw/leg.
Trip to the vets potentially pending later in the week....
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And the vets this evening told us we won the "coveted" prize of the first injury to open the ski season!
Some stitches for the hund, no particularly damage to tendons or ligaments. One tiny tendon cut, but it's not an important one apparently, and has been stitched back up.
Very surprised at the cost, much cheaper than we were anticipating.
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On Suki's first ever outing, she thought skis were something to play with and kept jumping on/around them, 100m into the descent I felt a clunk under the back of my skis and she left a blood trail down for 1km, trip to vet, stitches........
I asked the vet if they learn from this, she said it's quite common and shouldn't happen again, which so far it hasn't
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