How many of you ski with your boots in "Walk" mode?
How many of you ski with your boots in "Walk" mode?
Something I've been wondering about....
I'd say I ski 90% of the time in walk mode with all of my set ups. On piste or going mach 3 I switch my boots to ski.
I'm on T1s with a variety of skis. Had Syner-Gs previously and skied those primarily in walk mode, too.
I guess this is more relevant to those of us skiing plastic boots with a walk mode and not the XCD crowd so much, but what do you guys do?
I'd say I ski 90% of the time in walk mode with all of my set ups. On piste or going mach 3 I switch my boots to ski.
I'm on T1s with a variety of skis. Had Syner-Gs previously and skied those primarily in walk mode, too.
I guess this is more relevant to those of us skiing plastic boots with a walk mode and not the XCD crowd so much, but what do you guys do?
- mugglesport
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Re: How many of you ski with your boots in "Walk" mode?
Depends on whether you're asking whether I do it intentionally.
Re: How many of you ski with your boots in "Walk" mode?
I accidentally had only one boot in walk mode skiing this weekend and was thinking "Wow, I've got a little more off season rust than I thought!" Felt much better after that was squared away...mugglesport wrote:Depends on whether you're asking whether I do it intentionally.
Re: How many of you ski with your boots in "Walk" mode?
Permanent walk mode.
Re: How many of you ski with your boots in "Walk" mode?
I am on the list of always in walk mode. On rare occasion (miserable icy conditions), I flip the switch to ski mode.
- lilcliffy
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- Favorite boots: Alpina Alaska BC; Lundhags Expedition; Alfa Skaget XP; Scarpa T4
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Re: How many of you ski with your boots in "Walk" mode?
VERY cool man...anrothar wrote:Permanent walk mode.
(As an aside- how have you made out with your redesign of the Asnes USGIs?)
Cross-country AND down-hill skiing in the backcountry.
Unashamed to be a "cross-country type" and love skiing down-hill.
Unashamed to be a "cross-country type" and love skiing down-hill.
Re: How many of you ski with your boots in "Walk" mode?
lilcliffy wrote:VERY cool man...anrothar wrote:Permanent walk mode.
(As an aside- how have you made out with your redesign of the Asnes USGIs?)
Haven't even gotten around to it yet. Very busy work season, nasty case of shingles and laziness. I have successfully redesigned my belly into a more round shape though....
- lilcliffy
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- Ski style: backcountry Nordic ski touring
- Favorite Skis: Asnes Ingstad, Combat Nato, Amundsen, Rabb 68; Altai Kom
- Favorite boots: Alpina Alaska BC; Lundhags Expedition; Alfa Skaget XP; Scarpa T4
- Occupation: Forestry Professional
Instructor at Maritime College of Forest Technology
Husband, father, farmer and logger
Re: How many of you ski with your boots in "Walk" mode?
Very sorry to hear about the shingles dude- awful- I have watched my father and a friend go through that painful ordeal.
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Cross-country AND down-hill skiing in the backcountry.
Unashamed to be a "cross-country type" and love skiing down-hill.
Unashamed to be a "cross-country type" and love skiing down-hill.
Re: How many of you ski with your boots in "Walk" mode?
T-race and in walk mode unless I'm actually racing.