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By Ben Lyman Ranked #17 - Telemark Skiing February 10, 2009

I'm with Ron. The heel throws are problematic, to say the least. I've got three pairs of these bindings, but probably won't buy them again (but damn, they're a good deal). The heel piece will allow you to install two heights of climbing bars, but if you do this, the rear throw will collapse while you're skinning after just a few uses (it's simple physics, don't ask me why G3 hasn't figured it out after all these years). Furthermore, the "ice-free plate" that goes over the heel piece doesn't fit if you have more than one climbing bar installed--another stupid design flaw they should have fixed years ago. The material they use on the ice-free plate is also pretty fragile--I've got chips and chunks missing from a pair used for 1.5 seasons.

After years of skiing on the X-mountain cartridges, a couple of friends convinced me to upgrade to the world cups--holy moley, if you have any intentions of being a decent telemarker, get the world cups. It doesn't even matter how much you weigh--one of the people who converted me can't weigh over 115 #, and her husband is around 195 #, and both swear by these bindings.

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