How choose your ski touring bindings?

Choose your ski touring bindings

There are three technologies for ski touring bindings:

Adapters: Ski touring bindings

The adapters are between your shoes (alpine skiing) and your bindings (alpine skiing). They allow two positions: climb (heel released), and decent (fixed heel).
The most popular models are "Securefix" and "Alpine Trekker". This type of binding set is not allowed for common use in ski touring, for several reasons:

1/ You take your track gear that weighs a dead donkey and go drooling!
2/ You are very high and therefore very unstable, the edge is almost impossible: watch out for crossings on snow a little hard ...
3/ Some models do not offer the possibility of putting knives...

You can now go to the hardware section alpine touring bindings

The "track" type bindings

There are many models that are all equal:
- Advantages: you put them around like track bindings, it's pretty easy. They accept all types of shoes. They are adjustable, and you can change shoe sizes or lend your skis without problems.

- Cons: quite heavy (about 1.7kg a pair). Knives are sometimes too long (at Diamir for example) and may not sink completely on hard snow and without a climb inghold: risk of imbalance.

 Insert attachments

- Benefits: very light (about 700g a pair), almost indestructible (you don't break your Low Tech or very rarely!)
- Cons: You can find it harder to put on at first, they require a particular model of shoe with inserts. They are not adjustable in the most common version (3 possible setting sizes in other versions).

I do not enter into the debate on safety and the removal of fasteners because no one agrees! The problem is to take off in case of a fall ...... not always obvious on TLT for some it seems. Personally I ski on TLT with bindings always blocked to the bottom to never take off ... It is a choice that is discussed, especially for the beginner.

To conclude it can be said that many hikers start with the Model 2 and over the seasons opt for the model 3. look the best at shop telemark-pyrenees.com.

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