Good Morning Mattafix! Just woke up to a fresh spring snowfall! From your description- It doesn't sound like you need a lot of width underfoot- Question- why are you not considering Fischer? The S-Bound 98 is a great ski- it has an excellent, grippy scale insert- with just enough camber for the scal...

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Thank you for the update!
Beautiful photos!
While I am very fortnuate to have the snow and terrain to tour locally-

It would be nice to have completely open terrain to tour on sometimes!

@lilcliffy the shop mounted them so embarrassingly I cannot be sure. Usually here it is pin line on balance point. Thank you! The response from Asnes was firmly- balance point. I am certainly very happy with the Rabb and the Falketind at balance point. I am almost positive that my Rabb 68 had a boo...

I mean, I already posted that in this thread five posts ago to respond to Lil cliffys claim that "world class" skiers don't ski light gear. But yeah I like that vid It seems that I cannot explain myself clearly in this medium. I have never said that world class skiers don't ski light gear. There is...

I hear ya there and I can respect that, although I find light gear to have a pretty straight forward learning curve to p-turn. This doesn't resonate with my experience- On "light" gear (ie with a completely freeheel Nordic touring binding and flexible Nordic touring boot), I use the telemark turn a...

I feel like the general consensus is that "to ski well downhill in the telemark style it would be best to develope your skills on a heavy setup, and skiing well on a heavy setup is equated to being a skilled telemark skier". That might be the dominant view (not sure that it is), but it is not mine....

Well- I do find myself in steep challenging terrain- typically densely forested- and highly variable- including VERY deep- snow- on truly "light" (ie Nordic touring) XC ski equipment- My limited experience suggests that if one wants to ski steep terrain on "XC" skis-boots- one needs to pratice on th...

greatgt I think you are missing my point...(I wonder if there is a pattern here- in both directions!) In the Northeast, I generally do not tour on modern dowhilll Telemark equipment- and I routinely ski steep terrain on Nordic touring equipment. But, I would never claim that I can downhill ski to t...

Let us know how you make out with the Combat NATO- You are correct- the original- and still available at the moment- Combat NATO is the same design as the old Ingstad, and does not have a rockered shovel- it has pronouced resitance underfoot, with proportionally more flexible shovel. The Nansen has ...

LC, where do you draw the line between light touring equipment and heavy telemark? I think the T4/Excusion is the at heavy end of light touring, but it also can be considered the light end of heavy gear. Because of the ability to be able to flex and lean your ankles in T4s and Excursions I put them...