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There is not enough snow in our home mountains Beskydy, so we have started to look for the higher mountains, and especially with more snow. The choice fell on Italy, mainly due to the affordability of housing, snow hight and cheap wine. Foppolo skiing resort, which is above Bergamo, none of us know, but Google Earth promised good lines.
There is nice article Prevent Damage to Boot — Improper Use of Tech Bindings with photo of significantly damaged shoe around holes for pins of Dynafit Tech binding at website www.wildsnow.com. Shoes with proper shoe sole is almost impossible to damage in such a way, but if you shoe sole is damaged, it can be very easy.
There occured discussion about Avalanche Ball at Czech forum Outdoorforum. Avalanche Ball is suitable for faster obtaining first contact with the area of person buried by snow avalanche. Some people in this discussion suppose that Avalanche Ball is equipment of the same value and practical usage as ABS Avalanche Airbag System or Snow Pulse, it is convenient to look more in detaile, what Avalanche Ball is, what's its advantages, disadvantages and way of usage.
I was looking for hard boots for skimountaneering, freeride and jumps last year. After some time of searching I have found Scarpa Spirit 4. I have no experience with other types of boots, so that following text is only my personal experience with Scarpa Spirit 4.
During trip Skialpinism at Kamchatka 2009 – list of articles, photos and results I had new model of skis Movement Iki – length 168 cm. Instead of skis presented on official web Movement for season 2008–2009 there are changes in construction and graphic design at Movement Iki – details are in previous article New skis Movement for 2009–2010.
During skialpinism trip Skialpinism at Kamchatka 2009 – list of articles, photos and results I had new skis Movement Iki (length 168 cm) – New skis Movement for 2009–2010 s namontovaným novým vázáním na rok 2009–2010 New binding for skialpinism Fritschi Diamir Eagle. Binding was changed significantly and first experience with its usage are described in article První zkušenosti s novým vázáním Diamir Eagle získány na Kamčatce. Crampons for this binding and its attaching to binding Diamir Eagle are new too. This article describes what to do with crampons.
Swiss freeride ski company Movement is not necessary to introduce to majority of skialpinists and freeriders, as Movement Skis are already famous worldwide. There are still overview of skis 2008–2009 on the Movement internet pages, whereas there are new models in printed catalogue for season 2009–2010.
It looks, that with ending patent rights for binding Dynafit TLT a lot of competitors bindings want to reach the ski-touring market. G3 Onyx was the first announced binding in the Czech Republic at the end of 2008. Binding Ski Trab TR1 was introduced at this year ISPO 2009. Another solution ATK RACE was up now completely not known for me. There are also big expectation from Black Diamond and its production in China.
München ISPO 2009 presented new bindings for alpin tour – Diamir Eagle. This bindigs complete replaces series Diamir Explore. And what about us in this new world will practically ski?
I have been using this binding for last season on my K2 Seth’s and now it’s time to reviewed it. I bought it last year because of good results on freeskiing websites and also good experiences of freeskiers all around the world, which I read in comments on pages.
