Dana Dorsett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>First take the burnt up Solly 912s and mount 'em in the dumpster (or
>sell 'em on eBay as spare parts) nothin' less useful than a binding you
>can't trust, and it could cost you more than a day's lift ticket when
>(not if) it fails...

Better yet, put a cheap set of tele bindings on them and learn that in the
non-woods season. Even better, trade your Freerides for Hammerheads and
stick those on the CMH. The CMH/HH combo is realllly nice. I like it, a
lot.

>Secondly, why load up the relatively light weight R:EX with a heavier
>binding and put your nice light Freerides on the beastly-heavy CMH? Make
>the R:EX your touring ski- it's the ticket! Let the lift/cat/heli drag
>the CMHs up hill!

Gotta wonder how far apart the weights really are there. CMH's aren't
really THAT heavy, they seem lighter than stock Explosivs anyway. Dana, if
you're basing all your CMH experience on those two runs you took on mine
at Wawa years ago ... remember that mine had more than a few pounds of
extra plastic and t-nuts bolted to em (a total of 20 T-nuts in the pair
actually, to accomodate different mount points). All of that has since
been removed and even with Hammerheads they feel noticably lighter.
Granted, the R:EX is a foam core (I think) but if I remember right it has
a mount plate on it that's gonna add a bit of weight (that also may make
mounting Freerides harder). In any case, I am still of the opinion that
fatter is usually better in the backcountry. At least it is in the
backcountry that Mike is skiing. Fatter skis may be heavier but they are
way easier to break trail and ski on, meaning in typical yo-yo situations
you're gonna come out ahead of any skinny skied compatriots in the used
energy dept. I got a lighter setup (World Pistes with Hardwires) as
a "touring" rig and for on-piste days when I wouldnt be seeing much off-
piste. I like them, but I still find myself opting for the wider ski when
earnign turns, especially when things get steep, deep, and/or rotten.

>Unloading Freeride-drilled Pocket Rockets should be no problema- there
>are plenty of 'em in the woods (although I gotta say that super-soft
>tail feels like a powder-only kind of ski to me. Haven't skied 'em but
>if they're cheap enough... :-)  )  If you don't need to get retail price
>out of 'em I'm sure you could move 'em on the telemarktips.com swap page
>in about 20seconds come the first snow, and there would be folks
>_thrilled_ that they came pre-drilled for Freerides!

Ditto. Half the locals at Cannon ski on that exact same combo. You'll have
no problem unloading those on Ebay.

Jerm

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