animatorYeah so this is definitely agreeable in a sense, but also if your skis shit the bed you can always take the bindings off and then put them on another ski. how much touring are you planning on doing? If you wanna just experiment with it and learn the ropes, buy trekkers and used griffons or something to keep things at the most cost effective. If you wanna spend a little more the shift is a great binding and you’ll be able to throw it on your next ski if you decide that you like touring. The CAST system is awesome but it is expensive and if you find out you don’t wanna tour then that’s $750 that you’ve spent on something that you won’t use again.
personally if you have the money and they’re on a deal I would go Shift. It’s a great binding and even if you decide that you only wanna tour once in a while it’s the perfect binding for that. Hope that helps, feel free to ask any questions
the shifts are on deal thats the only reason im considering them, I only went once last year because I had to borrow someone's skis to go but all my friends tour up the ski areas at night or in the early am before lifts spin so I'll probably go a few times. I watched the blister podcast with cody townsend and he really hyped the shifts up saying they were better downhill bindings than the STH and I really like my STH 14s so that got my attention but its hard to judge how much of it is just hype because shifts are plastic and STH is metal and he gets bindings for free.
LorryRetypeAre these regular recent JJs? They're a heavy ski and aren't gonna be the most fun to tour in. If I had to put a touring binding on them I'd probably go CAST for the tech toe up and not sacrifice anything when I'm using the skis inbounds.
yeah older JJs but I'm not a weight weenie, heavier skis will just make my legs stronger and I'm not going to do any really long tours just skinning the local ski areas with friends so im not super worried about it. I've never ridden pivots so as much as I like the idea of the cast system I'm kind of hesitant to pull the trigger on it, plus its going to be more expensive to go cast than shifts unless I find some cheap used pivots