Fine Touring Binding

By Scott Pendleton Ranked #30 - Cross Country Skiing December 15, 2009

Make no mistake, this is a light touring binding; it's designed for that purpose and does the job well. It is just fine if you're out on a groomed XC trail. The clip in and release are nice and easy, even with gloves, and the system works well. For casual use it's a fantastic value and I love mine.

Take it off the trail and tackle steep terrain and you'll quickly discover the limitations of the NNN system. The interface to the ski is no where near as robust as a 3-pin and controlling the ski is very difficult. I've manage to eek out tele turns on these things, but would much prefer a more solid connection to the ski. Also, the heel tends to collect snow when in powder, so they're not so great for BC use. Of course, that's not their intended use, so I'm not going to knock them for that. In my experience they do survive such use, but they're nowhere near ideal. Keep in mind that I'd only 155lbs, so if you're bigger they may not last through such abuse.

I had one pair for two years of hard use, much more than they were intended for, and they worked fine until TSA did a poor job repacking my ski bag and Delta finished one off. I got a replacement and it's also worked fine. Like I said, I use these things for much harsher skiing than their intended use, and I have yet to ever have a problem with them in the snow.

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