Choose your ski touring bindings

There are three technologies for ski touring bindings:


Ski touring bindings

Adapters

The adapters are between your shoes (alpine skiing) and your bindings (alpine skiing). They allow two positions: climb (heel released), and decent (fixed heel).
The most popular models are « Securefix » and « Alpine Trekker ». This type of binding set is not allowed for common use in ski touring, for several reasons:
1/ You take your track gear that weighs a dead donkey and go drooling!
2/ You are very high and therefore very unstable, the edge is almost impossible: watch out for crossings on snow a little hard …
3/ Some models do not offer the possibility of putting knives…
Passes again for an initiation (although if you don’t want to be disgusted it may not be the right choice). For more regular use it is even better to rent really suitable equipment.

The « track » type bindings

There are many models that are all equal, like Fritschi Diamir or Silvretta Easy Go.

Advantages: you put them around like track bindings, it’s pretty easy. They accept all types of shoes. They are adjustable, and you can change shoe sizes or lend your skis without problems.
Cons: quite heavy (about 1.7kg a pair). Knives are sometimes too long (at Diamir for example) and may not sink completely on hard snow and without a climb inghold: risk of imbalance.

Insert attachments

Benefits: very light (about 700g a pair), almost indestructible (you don’t break your Low Tech or very rarely!)
Cons: You can find it harder to put on at first, they require a particular model of shoe with inserts. They are not adjustable in the most common version (3 possible setting sizes in other versions).
I do not enter into the debate on safety and the removal of fasteners because no one agrees! The problem is to take off in case of a fall …… not always obvious on TLT for some it seems. Personally I ski on TLT with bindings always blocked to the bottom to never take off … It is a choice that is discussed, especially for the beginner.


To conclude it can be said that many hikers start with the Model 2 and over the seasons opt for the model 3. While I do not know anyone who returned to model 2 when it tasted the model 3 ……… If it’s not a sign that!

Models 2 and 3 are running around 250 degrees.

You can now head to the material section alpine touring bindings.

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