Necessary gear

By Tom Joyce Ranked #1254 - Telemark Skiing February 2, 2009

The more you ski, there greater is the chance that part of your binding will break at the time you are least prepared for it. This happened to me, and nobody in the nearby towns (upper peninsula Michigan) carried anything. Luckily, I had a spare set of Riva Z repair parts for my old tele skis, and I was able to adapt that to my G3 bindings. I promptly bought this set and swapped out the Riva Z. My G3 bindings were just 3 years old and not that heavily skiied, and that's why I hadn't been in a hurry to equip myself with a replacement set sooner.

My only complaint is that I needed just the heel-lock (which was the part that cracked) and I would rather have had the opportunity to buy, say, 3 heel-locks. I had to buy the whole replacement set. It seems to me that the heel-lock is the most likely part to fail, and I would rather have the option to buy several alone--buying three new binding kits for a couple of back-up heel-locks is overkill. But I guess I'm a little glad I have the other stuff now . . . just in case.

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