Heeresbergführer wrote:
Hey Pat...great Finnish ski soldier photos!! I'm actually skiing on modern cable bindings...like the old Kandahar type. Here's what the Gebirgsjägers used:
Cross-Country mode:
Interesting.
Let me note that I know next to nothing about skiing, in spite of owning telemarking skis (Fischer 99s). I came to them sort of by way of snowshoeing, as I snowshoed in the winter (and still do a bit), but all my friends got around in the woods much quicker with skiis. They had telemarking skiis, and so that's what I bought. They are a good true cross country skii. My Fischer 99s are still in good shape after all these years of use.
Cable bindings are something I am familiar with only because when I first learned to skii as a kid I used them. This is because I used my mother's old skiis, as I could fit her boots and whatnot. Her skis were wooden and dated back from the 40s or so. Anyway, they had cable bindings, and looked a lot like this. I broke my leg skiing as a result of the bindings, as they do not efficiently release. That experience caused me to give up skiing for about a decade, and I've only gone back to it for cross country skiing. In the mountains, you have to cross country skii or snowshoe in some conditions.
I didn't know they called these kandahar bindings. In looking that up, I ran across this site which depicts a single pole skiier, as Tom mentions.
http://www.backcountryfriends.com/backc ... arsky.html
