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I asked this question a while back and got great responses.

Now I can ride T-Bars everywhere but in Italy! In Italy they made me
keep my back foot out of the binding which made it a lot harder for me.
From my experience, you're just snowboarding up hill and you can relax
a lot more with your feet in the bindings, and you can also ride away
easily if you happan to fall off. For some reason in Italy they think
its safer for you to be stuck on the side of a steep pitch without your
foot strapped in (and they're quite rude about enforcing it!).

Anyway, all good advice in the post noted. Good luck,

-todd