Solid performer

By Joshua Keith Ranked #869 - Alpine Touring Bindings January 12, 2009

The duke does what it is meant to do, provide a solid platform for off-piste skiing and allow some AT performance. This is not a weight shaving all day touring binding. If you're taking lifts to the top and then making long traverses to reach chutes, it's a great binding. A friend and I went off-piste and took these off some big drops. His traditional alpine bindings kept blowing up on hard impacts; even with my dins set low, the markers held on and gave a solid platform. The extra height, because of the AT design, actually helped with carving by acting like a riser plate. I skied these bindings hard on and off-piste for 5 days and never had a problem... always lift serve though. I used them just to make long traverses.

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