Anyone ski Dynafits inbounds?

I can't believe the abuse my dynafits take...

I watched Tim Place rip on them a few years back at Baker and thought I'd give them a go. I mounted them on a pair of Rossignol B4's (which are fairly beefy). I have never had a problem with them in any conditions. I ski them hard all year round...mostly back and slackcountry touring...but I feel confident skiing them at the resort in most conditions. I have now sold all my tele and heavy AT gear (fritshis) and bought another pair or dynafits.

However, I don't huck huge cliffs and bash moguls anymore...they have their limits...give it a try...

I ski 100-120 days most seasons and use my Dynafit setup about 25 -35% of the time. I have skied Dynafit TLT's about 10 years and have a few pairs and have never had a binding failure. I'll be 61 years old next month, weigh 205 pounds and I'm light on my skis. I keep the skis on the snow so they are rarely launching off drops, unless by accident. My ski style is old school with my feet pretty much locked together like that old guy Stein Erickson(sp). It's a style that works for me. Remember, I'm old and Polish.

As for durability, my TLT's have been great and reliable. I've noticed that many new folks to the sport look at a Dynafit and Freeride and can easily make the leap to a Freride mentally. I'm not a rando race person but it seems the majority of the competitors use a Dynafit setup for weight reason. But when you watch some of the rando race descents, you can see the beating the binding is subjeced to.

Last February, I purchasd a pair of Atomic Kalais and mounted one of my Dynafit bindngs and used it for the rest of the ski season at resorts and backcountry. Plus during or month long ski adventure in Argentina and Chile, Jill and I just had our Kalais and Dynafit rig. It was wonderful in the variable conditions we skied. FWIW

Hey Zap. We chatted about those Kailases a while back. My experience with my Kailas/Dynafit rig is what got me thinking about doing this. I skis better than any setup I've used in years.

If it helps any, I don't huck and am a twig, but do ski relatively fast, sometimes even on purpose.

Thanks for the great chatter. I hadn't seen much on this elsewhere.

I ski Dynafits inbounds on days with not enough snow for my big rig - i.e. days when it's hardpacked, mogul-y, etc. I ski them hard and, so far, have no complaints with how they ski. My only complaint is that they are a pain to get in and out of because I have no brakes, and the retention cord is a pain. I thought that bungee and a carabiner would be easy to open and close with gloves on, but it's not....

I have skied the last three years on Dynafits and I concur with the other posts, that they work well. As I got them from the shop, the DIN was set too low for me and I would pre-release especially in the deep heavy stuff.

On the other hand I did experience an injury last year because of failure to release. An odd fall. I was on a hardpack trail and somehow I found myself skiing backward and accelerating. (For me this is something I do not relish!). Instead of just falling sideways and skidding to a stop, my natural instinct made me lean forward, very hard. The boot did not release and I ended up with a partial tear of my calf.

Oddly, two weeks later, riding up a lift with a patrol member he related the exact problem that he had just the week before my accident. Exactly the same situation, same injury.

In these situations, it might occur that no binding will release. There was no impact as might be expected for any binding design.

I will not lower the setting for the bindings because of this, I really cannot stand stepping out of the binding in heavy snow.

In any case I am 6ft. 2inches, 240lb, am skiing conservatively, but more and more challenging terrain, where steep edging is required for control and safety and I have never had a pre-release in these situation. Terrain such as the icy upper and middles sections of WildKatz at Stevens would serve to put a fair amount of torsion on the binding for someone of my weight using a 90mm waist ski.

The reason that I use this setup on piste is that I am just too cheap to own four or five pairs of skis. I prefer to use a light setup for backcountry and then ski on trail out of necessity because my kids ski are on the hill and too young to do otherwise. However, I love the setup since it allows me to move about and explore as much of the off trail parts of the hill as I wish.

Alan

Something to watch out for. I try to avoid letting my stance become too narrow when skiing Dynafits on packed slopes. I can't recall any such problems while skiing in the backcountry.

When skiing in Idaho, at least around certain elected officals, I would suggest avoid using a "wide stance", particularly in airports, as it can lead to mis-understandings.