Gear Review
Black Diamond O2 Telemark Binding
hey norm, that couldnt keep em on your feet...
By jon1083479
Ranked #332 - Telemark Bindings
December 22, 2008
hey norm... sounds like either your boot was too small for the cartridge (they make smaller cartridges for folks with small feet) or you had a broken pair. i have had a couple pairs of these now and nothing even remotely like that has EVER happened to me, or any of the number of people i ski with who use them. i'm a BIG guy and there isn't another binding i trust more to get me down an icy 60 degree chute or skinning up a knife ridge in a "no fall" zone than these O2's. i'm afraid your one day on borrowed gear doesn't qualify you as a reliable source and is misleading to other people looking for quality gear.
View Details: Black Diamond O2 Telemark Binding
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Change me.
5 Comments Last Reply: February 15, 2010 By: kyle green
ever seen the snow that sticks to the mountains in the andes? it sticks to damn near vertical surfaces. You can ski 60 degree slopes, just watch doug coombs ski. hell the entrance to upper international is over 40 degrees and that is an inbounds run. if i had to guess id say i've made a few turns on 50+ degrees slopes. i'm not sure where you get your info but you must ski in the midwest and have never seen a ski movie
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No kidding, Robert. You're not a physicist. Alaska has terrain that holds snow on near vertical lines. Ever seen a modern ski movie? Check out Claim, In Deep, or RE:Session, or any other new ski flick and watch them ski lines that are over 45 degrees.
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robert were do u ski? and were are u getting this information about snow sticking to slopes?
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Jon your an idiot, it is mathematically impossible to ski a 60 degree slope. Period. Nope don't think you did, it never happened.... The laws of physics apply to skiing as well as say "the whole universe"..... Nothing over 45 degrees can be skied because snow cant attach to a critical angle higher than 45... And yes retard I know snow has different conditions, but no you still can't ski over 45 degrees.
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I agree, O2's are one of the more reliable bindings. As for your comment about skiing icy 60 degree chutes, you're either bad at estimating slope angles or you should go pro.
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