It's a better choice for what she wants. A hut touring ski, capable of making turns in deep snow. Initially she was set on the switchback. But she picked up a pair of Faction Supertonics at a ski swap and decided to mount the switch backs on those. She has a set of pinless hardwires, which I like a lot, on a pair of K2 Schi Devils. So she knows how the binding performs, plus we have some spare parts for it. I am excited to see it all mounted up.lilcliffy wrote:IMHO- that binding seems a better fit for either the Epoch or the BC-110.SanJuanSam wrote:I ended up talking the wife into 3 pin hardwires for her xcd set up. She decided against the Rossi 110 and went with the Epochs.
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I didn't mean to suggest that the the Switchback is a "powerful" binding in the context of "powerful" down-hill Telemark bindings. What I meant was that the Switchback is a down-hill Telemark binding- it is not a binding intended for XC skiing.
Tele bindings such as the 3PC and the hardwire are XC bindings- as well as Tele bindings.
The Switchback to me is ideal if one is "touring for turns". Regardless- one must be willing to give up significant XC performance.
As I mentioned above- we had a recent discussion about how best to XC ski with a free-pivot binding- I have extremely limited experience with it (I tried it once and kind of hated it!)- but the expert consensus is to XC ski with the binding in free-pivot climb/tour mode. For more on this see the discussion above.
That hardwire binding- despite the extra cash- has replaced the 3pin-cable in my mind. It will go on my next "mountain" setup- if I can ever find the time to get away from the hills and travel again to the mountains, in order to justify it!
The Epoch is an awesome XCD ski. My wife and kids love it. I find it too soft for my liking. You'll have to let us know what your wife thinks of this kit! What boot is she putting on that ski and binding?
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