Chockstone Forum

      Sponsored By
      ROCK
   HARDWARE

Chockstone Photography

Australian Landscape Prints

Chockstone Forum - Gear Lust / Lost & Found

Rave About Your Rack Please do not post retail SPAM.

Topic Date User

Getting around on skis 4-Aug-2009 At 11:14:56 AM evanbb

Message

On 4/08/2009 widewetandslippery wrote:
>I think the best bit of the gist of simeys coment is if you're good you
>can do it all.

That's my plan. Not that I'm good, but to keep working until I'm pretty sure I won't die.

I've done a bit of research since the last post, and understand Alpine bindings now. As mentioned, most of the touring I'll do would be bushwalking on skis. between trees, along ridges and plains, frequent up/down sections. Seems skins would be a MAJOR pain in the ahse in this sort of terrain; much better suited to the 'climb big hill, ski down nice chute' style of skiing. I'm leaning toward Alpine bindings on scaled skis? Is that a good idea?

The snow was very gluggy, and desperately slow in some places. And it was raining. No excuses though, you can't have good conditions all the time, so I better get good or get wet. I've got a resort weekend coming up, and I'm thinking about hiring either teles or alpine skis. My wife will be learning from scratch, so we can session some of the easier slopes (but stay away from the bumbly slopes) and I can put some turns together.