What is your preferred go-to BC setup?

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What is your go-to setup?

XC
3
19%
XCD
10
63%
LiteTele
2
13%
HeavyTele
1
6%
 
Total votes: 16

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connyro
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What is your preferred go-to BC setup?

Post by connyro » Thu Feb 25, 2016 1:36 pm

Might be interesting to see the distribution is for what forum members use as their "go-to" setups for where they most frequently ski. I was going to add sub-groups based on bindings, but that gets too diluted IMO.

For the purposes of this poll, XC is any true XC BC ski (e-89s/99s, BC70s, Glitts, or any skinny, waxable or waxless), stiff cambered ski meant primarily for K+G. XCD is, well, XCD setups (Eons/Epochs/Annums, S-Bound series, G3 Stinger, etc), LiteTele is Koms, V6/Vector,V6BCs/Vector BCs, Rossi/Sbound 125's, waxable or waxless skis in this size/weight range, and HeavyTele is everything fatter and heavier than litetele.

Points are awarded for explaining your answer. (Not really)

I know I did not cover all possible setups and my setup groupings may suck, but bear with it for the sake of the poll. Or don't and complain about it to the management. 8-)

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bgregoire
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Ski style: Nordic backcountry touring with lots of turns
Favorite Skis: Fisher E99 & Boundless (98), Åsnes Ingstad, K2 Wayback 88
Favorite boots: Crispi Sydpolen, Alico Teletour & Alfa Polar

Re: What is your preferred go-to BC setup?

Post by bgregoire » Thu Feb 25, 2016 1:44 pm

XC because i take off from my backyard. XCD has been my favourite though for the last year or two.
I live for the Telemark arc....The feeeeeeel.....I ski miles to get to a place where there is guaranteed snow to do the deal....TM



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Re: What is your preferred go-to BC setup?

Post by Cannatonic » Thu Feb 25, 2016 3:46 pm

I consider E99 to be "light tele", they should at least be XCD. XC includes skate skis & stuff right?
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bgregoire
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Ski style: Nordic backcountry touring with lots of turns
Favorite Skis: Fisher E99 & Boundless (98), Åsnes Ingstad, K2 Wayback 88
Favorite boots: Crispi Sydpolen, Alico Teletour & Alfa Polar

Re: What is your preferred go-to BC setup?

Post by bgregoire » Thu Feb 25, 2016 3:52 pm

Cannatonic wrote:I consider E99 to be "light tele", they should at least be XCD. XC includes skate skis & stuff right?
It's not the ski, its what you do with it that matters. ;)
I live for the Telemark arc....The feeeeeeel.....I ski miles to get to a place where there is guaranteed snow to do the deal....TM



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Re: What is your preferred go-to BC setup?

Post by connyro » Thu Feb 25, 2016 4:11 pm

Cannatonic wrote:I consider E99 to be "light tele", they should at least be XCD. XC includes skate skis & stuff right?
XC BC. If you skate ski in the BC, then yes.



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MNpin
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Location: Beatiful, Tropical, SE Minniesnowta

Re: What is your preferred go-to BC setup?

Post by MNpin » Thu Feb 25, 2016 6:07 pm

XCD because they seem to match up the best to our terrain. Lite tele seems like overkill or cheating but can't say I haven't thought seriously about some Vectors or something similar.



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Re: What is your preferred go-to BC setup?

Post by Lo-Fi » Thu Feb 25, 2016 7:54 pm

Mostly XCD skiing for the last bunch of years. I can ski out my back door, with a few little glades, minutes away.

For all my years skiing, I was really waiting for the right type of equipment for the rolling hills of South-Western Quebec: t4 type boots with wider, turnable, fish-scaled skis.



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athabascae
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Location: Whitehorse, Yukon
Favorite Skis: Asnes MR48; Asnes Ingstad
Favorite boots: Alpina Traverse BC; Alpina Alaska BC

Re: What is your preferred go-to BC setup?

Post by athabascae » Thu Feb 25, 2016 9:20 pm

XC in a BC context. e89 class skis. Suits my local BC skiing opportunities best. Easiest to simply get out the door and go for a ski.

Poised to do alot more with an e109/eon/ingstad class ski in the next few years though, and the opportunities for a mid-width (XCD) or fatter ski in my neighborhood are immense.



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lilcliffy
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Location: Stanley, New Brunswick, Canada
Ski style: backcountry Nordic ski touring
Favorite Skis: Asnes Ingstad, Combat Nato, Amundsen, Rabb 68; Altai Kom
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Re: What is your preferred go-to BC setup?

Post by lilcliffy » Thu Feb 25, 2016 9:50 pm

XCD skiing- but with a heavy XC performance expectation overlaid- due to the majority of the BC skiing I can actually do from my backdoor. When my kids get a bit older, and I can again get out and travel a bit more- I will return to some more vertical-orientated tours.

I could easily focus on touring for turns in my local area (up to 350m verticals), but those hills are very rugged, steep, and densely forested. I find I need lots of boot-binding power to ski them...And I personally don't like XC skiing on "Telemark" tech- unless I am touring in truly mountainous terrain.

I currently prefer long distance XCD tours with carefully selected downhill runs on terrain that I can easily telemark on BC-XC tech.

At heart I am a backcountry skier that has a passion for xcountry skiing in the mountains.
Cross-country AND down-hill skiing in the backcountry.
Unashamed to be a "cross-country type" and love skiing down-hill.



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Re: What is your preferred go-to BC setup?

Post by MikeK » Fri Feb 26, 2016 11:18 am

Bump this up. Please vote! This is interesting data.



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