Scarpa NTN boots with Fritschi or Marker bindings?

Hey all,
my transition from pinhead to light side continues.
any thoughts or experiences on using a Scarpa TX Pro NTN boot in plate touring bindings?

Hey all,
my transition from pinhead to light side continues.
any thoughts or experiences on using a Scarpa TX Pro NTN boot in plate touring bindings?

I thought NTN is a plate touring binding?

any thoughts or experiences on using a Scarpa TX Pro NTN boot in plate touring bindings?

I'm assuming you mean conventional AT - like Fritschi or Marker Barons.

I've clicked TX-pros into fritschis for a green slope run or two, but it was incredibly sketchy. You would really need to build up something under the ball of the foot to keep the bellows from flexing when you weight & unweight your feet, similar to the shim they provide for usage of TX/TX-pro on Tech bindings. A link to a pic of the old shim .

I think Markers would be better for that reason, since they have a large sliding plate near the toe, but I think you'd still need something near the duckbutt under the foot.

Also, you'd want to forget about reliable release since you'd likely compromise the twisting release with the shim, and the bellows probably affects the vertical release in some way too. Therefore, I'd recommend that you don't try it, and instead use dynafit/tx combo if you want the AT-option from one boot.

I'm sure the company line would be something like "DON'T EVER DO THAT" but sometimes, when you're willing to accept the limitations of a boot/binding interface that were never designed to work together, you gotta do what you gotta do (like when a pair of DPS Spoons with alpine bindings arrive at your house the day before a big powder day). When skiing this way I expect my DIN setting to be merely a suggestion and presume the actual release value to be somewhere in between 3 and 25.

I've skied my TX comps in Salomon alpine bindings as well as Marker Griffon/Jester and Duke/Baron. I just adjusted the forward pressure and toe height to spec and went for it. No strange releases, even w/o the bellows being blocked off.

They don't fit in the Marker Tour series nor Tyrolia alpine. Never tried anything else.

I wouldn't recommend this for anyone, ever.