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In article , Florian Anwander wrote: Hi Booker _ I think you're kind of SOL with this. Every crampon on a tele boot suffers this problem in some degree. Depending on what kind of telemark binding you have you might look into grinding the toe piece off 4-5 mm. On most cable style bindings you don't need the full duckbill. I think, the real problem is the toe piece of the crampons binding. Every crampon with cage style or ribbon style toe pieces will suffer that, but a binding with a wire (comparable to the silvretta 400 ski binding) will keep the boot in a better position on the crampon. Only if you figure some way to get it moved further back, however then you're going to have problems with leverage and flexing on really steep ice. Maybe with something like the Grivel Rambo, http://www.mtntools.com/cat/alpineic...bocrampons.htm Personally, I'd just rent/borrow AT gear or bring MTN Boots. If the OP's grade 3 is anything like WI3, I wouldn't want flexy telemark boots regardless of how far the points stuck out. _ Booker C. Bense -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBQ53PDmTWTAjn5N/lAQFtKAP/Qjrb1p/suuETy7cpf50lzbYKqQWeKtWG d0Zb9jJeKrTREsrf82GrMp+WPiGpc7BXDPx9aoi/Ba6ES+7QvhNYZPH15LtoEs8E xVf25YpilYZR2PAdfGZjyflw7G2afWeYOA//bn27L2HZ09mgsfViHKEVXz+6usEz 8AoEamueOhw= =2WJr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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The ice is WI3. I'm modifying some footfangs so they will be stiff and
move the points forward. The steep ice is pretty short so I'm not worried about the extra leverage and getting tired from it. Thanks for the advice. I'll keep posting as thing go on. Kevin On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:27:11 +0000 (UTC), Booker C. Bense bbense+rec.skiing.backcountry.Dec.12.05@telemark. slac.stanford.edu wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article , Florian Anwander wrote: Hi Booker _ I think you're kind of SOL with this. Every crampon on a tele boot suffers this problem in some degree. Depending on what kind of telemark binding you have you might look into grinding the toe piece off 4-5 mm. On most cable style bindings you don't need the full duckbill. I think, the real problem is the toe piece of the crampons binding. Every crampon with cage style or ribbon style toe pieces will suffer that, but a binding with a wire (comparable to the silvretta 400 ski binding) will keep the boot in a better position on the crampon. Only if you figure some way to get it moved further back, however then you're going to have problems with leverage and flexing on really steep ice. Maybe with something like the Grivel Rambo, http://www.mtntools.com/cat/alpineic...bocrampons.htm Personally, I'd just rent/borrow AT gear or bring MTN Boots. If the OP's grade 3 is anything like WI3, I wouldn't want flexy telemark boots regardless of how far the points stuck out. _ Booker C. Bense -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBQ53PDmTWTAjn5N/lAQFtKAP/Qjrb1p/suuETy7cpf50lzbYKqQWeKtWG d0Zb9jJeKrTREsrf82GrMp+WPiGpc7BXDPx9aoi/Ba6ES+7QvhNYZPH15LtoEs8E xVf25YpilYZR2PAdfGZjyflw7G2afWeYOA//bn27L2HZ09mgsfViHKEVXz+6usEz 8AoEamueOhw= =2WJr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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