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Another trip to the ZOO
 Poster: A snowHead
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SZK assessed my jacket colour (fluoro-lime green) and my the colour of my skis (last year's Blizzard Titan 9s - also fluoro-lime green).

"There's only one thing for you," he said and handed me a pair of these:



SWEET! Toofy Grin

Actually, we went through the whole process as described in WTFH's excellent post (including getting a shell size at least one smaller than previous boots). We also spent some time debating whether the Spriit 4 was made out of PU or Pebax. Scarpa's marketing literature wasn't the clearest on this. We also discussed the vexed subject of what is the difference between all these new Dynafit bindings. Anyways, I came out with some FTs... I think....

The whole process was very good and I have some very nicely fitting touring boots. They ski brilliantly compared with my old touring boots. This is no doubt partly to do with the boot, but mostly it is down to having something that fits my foot properly.

The dynafit bindings are pretty good. They feel very good for skiing. I did feel a bit of a knob though when I got to the bottom of the Bochard gondola for the first time and realised I had no idea how to get my boot out of them! Fortunately Idris of Natives and TGR fame was around to lend a (slightly amused) helping hand.

THANKS SMALLZOOKEEPER!!
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Arno, good to hear another tale of success!

One thing I noticed the other day and puzzled me - why do the buckles on touring boots do up the opposite way from alpine boots? Is there a particular reason for it or just tradition?
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eng_ch, I am sure Scarpa will have some sort of technical mumbo jumbo for why - they have done it this way all the time I've been using their boots. I find that the buckles over the foot don't make much difference in a well fitted boot. Can usually ski just as well with them done or undone
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Arno, I noticed some Garmonts did the same.
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Arno,
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Anyways, I came out with some FTs

Frosty The snowman?!
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eng_ch, I think Dynafit's boots which have two buckles over the foot have one buckle going one way and the other going the other way. Again, no idea why
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Arno, green is the new orange. Very Happy
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A man went to the zoo
The only animal on display was a small dog
It was a shitzu







(barum-tish)
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Frosty the Snowman, ....... did he have to pay an admission fee ..... ? Toofy Grin
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Arno, AIUI, the point of having the finger-lifts of the clips on the top of the boot is that they are less likely to get caught up on and flipped open by rocks etc (I guess ropes too) when walking/clambering around. One guy I was with last year couldn't work out why the buckles on his Garmonts were opposite ways either, so got one changed around when when got into the Zoo at the end of the week. I suppose it's possible the reasoning goes that when the other way around the clip can get caught up in a crampon on the other boot - and with them in opposite directions you stand a chance of not flipping both open at the same time.

My buckles have also been doing very little up until now, but now CEM's worked his magic on them it looks like the excess pressure has been sorted and the buckles may actually have something to do in future. I should find out in three weeks time (and six, and nine, and eleven..Very Happy ).
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