NTN in backcountry

I had the same issue with my Kalias skis that have 36 holes in them from different mounts.
Just could not get the old filled holes flush either.
That was my test mount ski too.
I don't like the way the Kalias ski the NTN but like the Hardsides.

I was skiing in fresh snow at warming temp yesterday on Skyline Ridge.  I experienced a lot of snow buildup under/in my NTN.  I had form pads and they do help to shed snow more easily.  I took the skis off after each run and shake/clean the bindings.  Once I had to clear the ice under the toes.  The snow was so sticky in the sun, ended up carrying extra pound on each foot on the way up.  My friend had snow piling under her boots on her Switchbacks.

No, they need more work for optimum BC use.

Mack, I put Voile crampons, and those attachments attract snow too 

I'm inclined to go with the B&D crampons , I think -- a pretty simple attachment that will swing up when you lift the ski, plus I can use the same crampon for Dynafits.

Replaced the Blue Powertubes with the red ones.
My size 6'4" 200#> the red tube @3 is way more effective for my height since I apply so much more leverage than the average <6' height skier. Turned the Hardsides into a bad ass power carving machine. Can lower the tension for touring to match the blue springs.
A buddy and I swapped skis yesterday, he has the small NTN plates. The switch took about 15 mins, but cool to try another set of boards. Need to have a TAY demo swap day between us NTN users.

On another note... I got my rebate check in the mail. Looks like raising a little awareness to the companies involved paid off.  Just in time for the end of Winter sales!
Time get ready to ski and to hit the BC!

I'll put the foam under the cartridges today and experiment with/out them up at Stevens Sunday and Monday. Thanks for the information.

The TelemarkTips homepage ARTICLES never mentioned the problem for three years (that I noticed), but the FORUMS sure as heck did. ??? >

I'll put the foam under the cartridges today and experiment with/out them up at Stevens Sunday and Monday. 

snow buildup with the foam is never a problem for me. Icing in the tour lever area is. I am kind of careful pushing that lever down , maybe overly careful. I could imagine that thing breaking in the middle of a tour. We kind of have a routine during tansition. Do a couple kicks with heal banging the climbing post to knock out snow, then try to push the tour lever down. You get a feel for it after a while and know if there's icing causing excess force to push it down. A couple flips opening and closing of the locking lever helps break things up in there. A couple pokes into the tour lever area with a pole tip also helps. If it still feels like too much force, remove ski and bang the flex plate a couple times then close and open levers. We don't often get to the stage where removing skis are required.

One other thing that I'd recommend is to keep silicon/teflon spray on those little plastic wheels. It seems to help with the tour lever. I actually wore one completely through on the binding that  I broke earlier this year. It had about 40 tour days on it, so quite a bit of use of the tour lever. It was working ok even then, but then I broke the binding frame.

Kind of weird that Brenda seems to have less trouble than me with this issue. I thought it was because I'm always breaking trail, but much of yesterday required little trail breaking and I was still having more trouble than her.

On another topic. Brenda had a release in a header on some variable snow over the weekend. She has greens on a low setting. I couldn't figure out what was taking her so long to get going again. I guess she was feeling around for the release lever to remove the ski, and nothing there. The binding was near her boot, still in lock mode. So I think a legitimate release. Not really a yardsale, probably twisted out somehow.

The TelemarkTips homepage ARTICLES never mentioned the problem for three years (that I noticed), but the FORUMS sure as heck did.   ???   >

The only thing really alive nowadays on Ttips are the fourms. There have been quite a few posts on thie issue.