Telemark Tech System

I have been a rando skier for 20 plus years.  I started with Paul Ramers binding and then I switched to Dynafit bindings about 15 years ago.  I found this recent posting by Craig Dostie at the Couloir site interesting for the telemark market.  The Dynafit/Tech system is expanding its reach. 

www.earnyourturns.com/4970/dynafit-goes-...elieve-it/#more-4970

Love seeing more info about this setup. I've been on it since May. It tours incredibly well, of course, and skis well too -- much better than I thought it would.

Thanks for posting this, very useful info to have on the radar.  I've been struggling with the use of telemark as a tool for alpinism, largely because of the 'climbability' of duckbills on ice and easy 5th class rock.

After seeing what is being used in the Alps last March for ski-mountaineering I was blown away and obviously envious.

Marcus, has your use of this system been strictly skinning or booting spring/summer snow?  Have you, or anyone you know, used this system in conjunction with mixed routes or any type of ice climbing?

Morgan, my use of the TTS has been almost entirely skinning & booting spring/summer snow -- I first skied the setup in June, I think.

The boots I have (Scarpa TX) would do fine for anything you'd be able to do with a ski boot -- I've climbed easy 5th and super-easy ice in my T2s and the TX are far superior for that kind of thing.

Cool. Good to see Mark Lengel jump into a new project after losing the Trab distributorship.

What's with those boots? Terminator X's with F3 cuffs?

The TX was Scarpa's first boot for the NTN binding -- the new telemark norm. They licensed Dynafit fittings in the boot when they first produced it, so I switched over to NTN last year to get a new boot that could tele and use Dyna bindings. NTN's a good binding, but much heavier than the TTS, which is why I picked up the TTS as well when I saw it -- that, and half of my NTN setup was buried in slide debris until June.