NTN in backcountry

Yeah, I'm going to cut some foam blocks to fill that space. I've been very careful to clear the tour lever area and the HDPE card has fixed most of the ice-cubing there, but the area under the boot is the problem. Sounds like the foam is the better band-aid there.

In my experience any sort of solution with plastic filler has not gone well. When the plastic gets scratched that leaves a spot for ice to attach. Then the problem, well.. gets more problematic.

If anyone has ever seen the deck of R8's they have a different shiny plastic that is a bit better for shedding snow as I remember. Tap plastics stock that material. It's called polycarbonate and it comes in very thin sheets and cuts with common carpentry tools. I was thinking about getting some and giving that a whirl... Anyone try that yet?

I haven't tried that tele.skier, no -- the problem seems to be that there's just so much flat area under there that it doesn't matter how slick things are, the snow still accumulates. A slick surface makes it easier to pop the snow out (a couple of whacks with the pole handle was working for me), but it still builds up.

Also, I'm a weak, weak man. I'll have these later in the week:

I have my doubts about that TTS set up's ability to resist lateral force without the triangular support of the locked heel. I supose only time will tell if that will work.

I had a lot of snow jamming under my binding saturday as the temperatures warmed up. I also had the same thing to a lesser degree on sunday. I fabricated the polycarbonate inserts last night for 2 pair of bindings and am gonna hit silver fir chair this morning to see if it helps...

Curious how the pc inserts will do -- let us know.

I have my doubts about the TTS as well, but he has a "conversion kit" available if you have Dyna toes sitting around, which I do. That knocked the price down a bit and the allure of the spring/summer touring season with much less weight was too much to resist. We'll see how it works!