I had the MR48 for a while and liked it. For what you are wanting, I think you would probably be happy with the MR48 with the narrow mohair X-Skins. I have been really impressed with the glide with the mohair skins on a cambered ski. The MR48 seemed to track pretty well, also. Thanks for your thoug...

If your bindings are NNN mounted on NIS plates you could slide them all the way forward on the way up and slide them all the way back on the way down. If not there are aftermarket NIS plates you can screw onto the skis and get a binding that moves. Some of the new movable bindings are pretty slick ...

Where are you located? Europe gets access to a Fischer Power with edges! I have a Power Twin Skin, it's nice in icier track but no edges. Sometimes if it's really icey a bigger skin would be nice. The MR48 is a good choice, the MT51 also, but a little heavier. The 30mm skins are ok for K&G and bett...

I have a very particular use case: a groomed trail with set tracks that climbs ~2000 ft over the course of about 5 miles. When the grooming is fresh, I often skate up it. When the grooming is older and things are choppy, icy, or covered in fresh snow, I want to have some classic skis that are good f...

Thanks for the thoughts Roelant. Sounds like a reasonable suggestion. After thinking about it for a few days, I'm getting less enthusiastic about the idea of drilling and screwing the MOVE front plate into place. If something else went wrong with the MOVE bindings, having screwed them in would be a ...

Roelant described it better than me, it isn't the factory glued plate that came off, but a post-factory secondary plate that was held on by a double sided adhesive sheet. I was able to peel the remains of the adhesive off the skis and the binding plate with my fingers, though doing so required some ...

I got what I think is a great deal on some Madshus Fjelltech M44 skis, resold "as is" after being returned to the retailer because the bindings failed. The skis were originally sold with Rottefella MOVE bindings pre-mounted, but the bindings failed in a way that I will describe below. The skis are o...

Thanks for the comment Woodserson! Good to hear from someone who did some skiing in the area. I stopped at REI on the way home today to see the Madshus 55's in person, and see how it felt flexing the different lengths. While there, I realized that price-wise, the Fischer Outback 68 is competitive wi...

I left my first post as short as I could, because I'm most interested in those questions. But I also have a lot of detailed gear questions that I'd love advice on if anyone is inclined. I've already gotten a lot of great info searching on this forum. I'm trying to get setups for both me and my girlf...

I'm not from the Seattle area, but there's got to be some info out there. Have you checked out this club? http://www.wstc.org/ Yeah, I also think this info has got to be out there somewhere! I did browse that site, but didn't see anything specific about what I'm looking for. Their organized trips s...