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Review: OMG’s TTS toe – beta, not better
TTS for 2014 with better cable posts, optimized heel lever, and their own OMG 2-pin tech toe.It has been a season now since Olympus Mountain Gear has introduced their own 2-pin tele toe to make a...
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Tech Talk: What’s a millimeter between 2-pins?
Did you know? Early Dynafit toes had pins that could adjust.Let me be up front here, this discussion may be too much minutia about something that only affects a small percentage of AT skiers....
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Is the NTN’s butt too big?
JFB testing the flex of NTN boots at Sugar Bowl, Jan. 2014There is a fly in the ointment, brewing in the background with the New Telemark Norm system. It hasn’t gained much recognition because there...
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Telemark Binding Selection Guide (2014)
The Chouinard 3-pin Classic.When you’re ready to march to the beat of a different drummer, whether you need a new challenge or your rebel spirit compels you that way, this guide is offered to help...
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First Look: Meidjo – merging Tech w/NTN
Meidjo updates -17jan15 “Ask and you shall receive,” goes the saying. We all know that isn’t always true, but it is often enough to keep the quip alive. In this case, it is true. For years tech savvy...
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Meidjo Revised to Fix Production Flaws
The serial number is located on the bottom of the toepiece, and on the box Meidjo comes in. If your binding is higher than AA0140, you have the fix already.The reports are flooding in and M-Equipment...
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Meidjo wins ISPO Gold Award
Meidjo wins Gold award for innovation from ISPO.The M-Equipment’s first product, the Meidjo telemark binding will receive a Gold award from ISPO at the upcoming European trade show for its innovative...
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Serial Heelers – episode III
Serial Heelers, S1, E3The reason for the lack of video endorsements in this place is simple, I’m not impressed with many. After awhile they all sort of look the same, and they show feats I’ll never...
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First Look: Moonlight’s Tele Tech Bindings
Moonlight Mountain Gear’s Tele Rando binding let’s you free the heel, or fix it.Interest in telemark bindings with a tech toe gained more advocates last week as fourteen writers and photographers...
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Mammoth shoot out: Outlaw VS Meidjo
Mammoth Mountain.The rule of Winter ’15 season has been to act fast when fresh snow arrives, otherwise there won’t be much left. A couple of late storms hit the Sierra last week. Though...
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The Case for NTN Grows
NTN’s biggest advocate – Mitch WeberAs recently as 2013, the reasons to drop the duckbill for a duckbutt were significant, but mostly based on a personal requirement for releaseability. Not all...
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Preview: Moonlight’s Tele Pure binding
CAD drawings of the “final” Tele Pure binding design.The inclusion of Dynafit-style 2-pin tech toes in a telemark binding, first pioneered as the Telemark Tech System is bringing a wave of enthusiasm...
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Scarpa & Scott drop heel inserts on NTN boots
Not even a heel groove is left for Scarpa’s 2017 TX-Pro.Good tele skiers know there’s a time and a place for parallel turns and if it doesn’t add much extra weight, why not add that ability?...
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Overview of next gen tele bindings
DIY tele tech bindings are thriving.I was really hoping to end this season with a set (or two if they skied similarly) of bindings that I could go into next season with and be confident I had a good...
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The State of 2-pin Telemark Bindings
Telemark Tech bindings are here to stay. The original Telemark Tech System binding (early beta version, circa 2010). The 2-pin connnection When Mark Lengel first proposed the idea of the Telemark Tech...
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Picking a 2-pin tech toe for telemarking
OMG’s telemark tech toe.When selecting a tech-toe for a tele tech binding keep in mind that they were not designed for the stresses of telemarking, they were designed for use in a locked-heel alpine...
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DIY 2-pin Tele: Use the Force (Luke)!
Before venturing any further in chronicling tele-tech bindings, it is important to understand the forces at play in a telemark turn. For the average telemarker, this article fits in the too much...
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2-pin Tele Springs: Size Matters
Size matters. J Nicol checks to see if they measure up.While the effect of cable pivot location tends to dominate the sensation of a tele tech binding, the next strongest binding component of the tele...
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Review: Scarpa’s TX-Pro (2017)
Odds are that if you’re a decent telemark skier, you will love Scarpa’s TX-Pro (2017). The reasons are simple, and with a little investigation and analysis, obvious. The TX-Pro simply nails the peak of...
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Mammoth shoot out: Outlaw VS Meidjo
Mammoth Mountain.The rule of Winter ’15 season has been to act fast when fresh snow arrives, otherwise there won’t be much left. A couple of late storms hit the Sierra last week. Though...
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