Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hp-pcd.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcla!hpfclk!paul
From: paul@hpfclk.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.rec.ski
Subject: Backcountry Bindings - (nf)
Message-ID: <3317@hp-pcd.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Dec-83 03:28:32 EST
Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.3317
Posted: Sat Dec 24 03:28:32 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Dec-83 00:57:12 EST
Sender: notes_gateway@hp-pcd.UUCP
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO
Lines: 23

#N:hpfclk:9900012:000:655
hpfclk!paul    Dec 22 07:26:00 1983

A note on backcountry bindings.

Last year I used (unsuccesfully) some Normark bindings (I have 
Fischer Europa 99 STs and Asolo Snowfields). I had problems 
blowing out of them about 1-2 times per day. Other tall people
I have talked with have similar tales of woe; it seems that shorter
people do not generate sufficient torque to pull the bail out of the 
bindings.

This year I had a pair of the Asolo bindings (with riveted bails) put on
my skis, and after 4 pretty good days of skiing, I have yet to come out
of them.

Anyone else out there have anything to add? (this group has been comatose
long enough!)

			Paul Beiser
			...hplabs!hpfcla!paul