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I believe you are correct, the kryptons toe piece is a litte bit narrower than most boots, and since the jester lacks toe height adjustment i've heard of more than a few people pre releasing from them.

If you are cranking your bindings up all the way (which you should not be doing, unless you really hate your knees), these technically have a slightly higher DIN rating (18 as opposed to 16 on the salomons) but aside from that I would say they are both equally as good at holding your ski on.This binding will not pre-release due to its super high range of elastic travel, which means where alot of bindings may pop off, these will hang on for the ride, and re center you.

Women usually have narrower feet, so women's boots are fitted accordingly. Womens also have lower calf muscles, so womens boots are built to accommodate that.

The best thing to do is jump on the "live chat" and ask those folks. They can generally give you a very close approximate for if/when they're expecting anything in.____________________________________________According to BCA the tracker II is not going to be released until fall of 2009.

i would not put this on an ARG, think about how much base contact an ARG has with the snow, with its reverse sidecut, reverse camber profile, then think about how bad it would suck trying to skin uphill with only a small portion of your base touching the snow, where as most people have full tip to tail contact. The JJ would be a pretty decent idea though, not as good as a regular camber ski, but i can imagine the ride down being totally worth it, and its pretty light, that it could work pretty well, you still wont have full tip to tail contact since it is rockered, but it would be way better than the ARG.

I wouldn't worry about it, you can remount up to three times with little to no concern. Especially with the barons which have one of the widest mounting footprints on the market, so the screws are more than likely going to be further apart, especially in the toe. You can also mount them further forward if you want to get flippy spinny, since they shift back 3cm when put in tour mode, or if you are going to be using them strictly as a touring ski you can mount them further back for better climbing ability. If you do decide to get barons, i would love to take the old bindings off your hands, for real.

I just bought the 186 S6, and mounted them on the back line out of the three. I would not mount any forward than this. I looked into even moving it back another cm or two but the ski is designed for those mount points. In the BC yesterday carving some big fresh turns i noticed some drag in my outside ski, could be a number of things but I have been wondering if its bc of the center mount.......anyway....mount back in my opinion, you will still be plenty balanced if you want to do all your fakie-ness. I mounted mine on the middle of the three lines and its PERFECT, i like to ski switch, though im not very flippy spinny, but the "modern" line is perfect for me, they charge everything awesome, forwards and backwards. 5"10' 165 lbs, riding 185's

Orage doesnt make 'tall' sizes to my knowledge. The only companies i know of that make tall ski pants are The North Face and Arc'teryx

These skis are awesome in tight trees! really maneuverable and easy to throw around for quick turns/dodging trees, decently stiff flex to avoid them from getting bounced around on any chop you might encounter. They also hold speed really well if you want to open it up in the trees, or anywhere else on the mountain.