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Originally Posted by kunkstyle
For myself, a few reasons.
1) Excercise and some downhill at the same time. XC bores the crap out of me.
2) Use of a lodge, hot lunch, etc. Less gear needed.
3) Can go out and earn my turns on my own for days when I can't find a buddy to go with.
3) Get in some practice before actually going into the BC, as to not be one of the people you ranted about a while ago with my Marker Dukes  |
I just figure if you're doing it for the exercise you might as well get away from the crowds and noise and enjoy nature. If you're doing it for the skiing, well, it's going to be ####ty and tracked out because of all those people who just rode the chair up to ski it before you. Earning your turns is work-reward and the reward kinda sucks when all these other people got there first without having to do the work. But to each his own. I can't see any sensible argument against letting people do it.
Anyway I have no issue with people who like frame bindings like Dukes obviously. A lot of people just can't trust tech bindings. I'm not 100% sure I trust them. Marker has just figured out that the north american touring market is largely comprised of people who want to spend 80%+ of their time skiing resort snow and occasionally get into some slackcountry, maybe the rare tour. For that use profile tech bindings are unjustifiable.