Comments on: Dynafit Safety Leash — Thong Style

By: Lou

Lou — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:02:03 +0000

Marco, I’m using the regular TLT heel with an aluminum top plate. I actually don’t have a problem skiing the race heel, but don’t like that it has no for/aft adjustment and thus is tricky to mount. They’re cool though. We usually mount ‘em up on something for 24 Hours of Sunlight.

By: Lou

Lou — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:00:07 +0000

Randonneee, you don’t need to do anything fancy, just get her to email me the photo and I’ll display.

By: Marzini

Marzini — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:19:39 +0000

Yeah Randonnee,

Please put your best daughter on that— I wanna see your leash set-up too!

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:19:36 +0000

Hi Lou,

Sorry for thread drift, but are using the Low Tech Race heal as well? The lateral release is so low on the heal that I find it necessary to keep the toe locked while skiing. Just curious if you do the same or swapped out for another heal with adjustable lateral release.

By: Randonnee

Randonnee — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:11:36 +0000

If there is avalanche potential, I use no leash or use ski brakes. I do not want any anchor potential that could drag me down or slow my escape even by a fraction of a second, or contribute to a lower extremity fracture/ injury.

I tend to like simple fixes since drilling or other modifications may cause another problem in my view. So I just work the keyring around the buckle bail catch that is riveted to the boot shell, there is just enough room. The cable tele leash loop is then girth-hitched to the Dynafit toe. The clip then is easily attached to the keyring. There are possible variations with drilling or adding loops to the ski or boot, but that adds more complexity in my view that can fail or cause a problem. Even if the keyring opens, I have been able to bend it with my hands back into a loop that can be used.

I just asked my nine year-old daughter if she can figure how to put a photo online- we did get a WIldsnow favorite Canon A720 recently. Sorry, the first time I went to college computers took up part of a room and used punch cards, and we developed film and printed photos… : )}.

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:33:01 +0000

Randonee, email me a photo of your attachments system and I’ll publish in this blog post, so we can show some alternate methods in the same place. I’ve experimented with key rings as “fuses” for other applications and they work pretty well. They come in different sizes and thicknesses, so easy to fine tune.