converted

By Re Wikstrom January 22, 2010

Just spent a week touring in BC and I am now a Dynafit convert. I have used my Freeride setup for the last 7 years and also tried out the marker barons earlier this year. The Dynafits take some getting use to, especially in rotating the heel lift back and forth on the fly while hiking, but the weight (or lack there-of) and ease on the joints while hiking, and just general ease of motion while hiking is amazing. I went back to the freerides for a day and could really feel the flexing in the binding and tweaking on my knees while hiking. I also hike with a boat load of heavy camera gear, so getting the weight off my feet was a huge draw. I don't really huck but do like to crank out big turns when I can and found no issue there with these bindings. (I am definitely not the type that lives for the up track). I will probably still use the freeride setup on occasion, but I think touring with those marker barons will be extremely rare from the pain-in-the-arse heel lifts and required removal of ski to go back to ski mode. I don't care how bomber people say they are and how much they ski like a "real alpine binding" and how much the weight isn't noticeable. It is. More Dynafits please.

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