Location: Steamboat, Colorado
Snow Conditions: Groomers to powder to icy days.
Setup: I rode the Union Force bindings with a variety of snowboards but mainly the Infinity-R and Lotus-R and my Vans Omni Focus boots now wearing Rome Vamp boots.
Time to set up the binding: Average
Fit: It was easy to adjust them to my vans boots however [...]
Location: Loveland, Colorado
Snow Conditions: Snowing with hardpacked groomers to icy groomers to fresh snow on the runs.
Setup: I rode the k2 Cinch Vette on the K2 Believer with my Vans Omni Focus size 8.
Time to set up the binding: Average time
Fit: In the width of the binding, it fit my boots just fine. [...]
Location: Loveland, Colorado
Snow Conditions: Snowing with hardpacked groomers to icy groomers to fresh snow on the runs.
Setup: I rode the Union Force SL bindings with a variety of snowboards and my Vans Omni Focus boots.
Time to set up the binding: Average
Fit: At the time the fit felt fine, the toe strap seemed pretty big for [...]
Location: Loveland, Colorado
Snow Conditions: Snowing with hardpacked groomers to icy groomers to fresh snow on the runs.
Setup: I rode the Salomon relay-elite bindings on the Salomon Sick Stick and Salomon Sanchez with my Vans Omni Focus boots.
Time to set up the binding: Average time
Fit: The ankle strap was centered and adjusted to my boot. [...]
Location: Loveland, Colorado
Snow Conditions: Hardpacked icy in the morning to soft bumpy in the afternoon groomers
Setup: I rode the Raiden Tigre’s on 4 boards so far, the GNU B-pro, Never Summer Infinity, Lib TRS and Lib Phoenix Lando.
Time to set up the binding: Average
Fit: I’ve been rocking Rome’s so long that it took me a [...]
Location: Timberline, Oregon
Snow Conditions: Slushy, bumpy snow softer in spots with some hardpacked icy areas. Overcast skies to fog.
Setup: I rode the Union Contact bindings on the Black Death Inc with my Vans Omni Focus boots.
Time to set up the binding: Quicker than average
Fit: I really had the time to get these dialed to my [...]
Location: A-Basin, Colorado
Snow Conditions: Bluebird with hard packed conditions
Setup: I rode the K2 Virtues on the K2 Duchess with my Vans Omni Focus boots.
Time to set up the binding: Really quick. JP gets it done.
Fit: I was able to get my boot in the binding, but I definitely would have sized up on the binding [...]
Location: Keystone, Colorado
Snow Conditions: Cold with hardpacked groomers and some choppy terrain.
Setup: I rode the Drake Muse bindings on the Drake Player snowboard with my Vans Omni Focus boots.
Time to set up the binding: It was very cold, so it did take a while to set up the bindings with it freezing out.
Fit: My foot [...]
Location: Keystone, Colorado
Snow Conditions: Cold with hardpacked groomers and some choppy terrain.
Setup: I rode the Salomon Absolute bindings on the Salomon Loft with my Vans Omni Focus boots.
Time to set up the binding: Longer than average due to making the binding fit properly.
Fit: It took about 3 tries to get the bindings to properly be [...]
Location: Keystone, Colorado
Snow Conditions: Cold, overcast with hard packed groomed runs.
Setup: I rode the Flux Titans on the O-matic Celebrity with my Vans Omni Focus boots.
Time to set up the binding: A little longer but I give credit when it’s freezing out having to turn screws without gloves.
Fit: The Titans were very good fitting to [...]
