Equipment Talks
On the 11th April I discovered one of the main rivets in my ski boots had been sheared off during the 30 minute walk across moraine at the end of a Vallée Blanche. Swiftly repaired the next day by Maria at The Boot Room in Chamonix.
On the 13th I was driving into Cham to meet clients for a warm up day off the Midi when the plastic plate on one of my bindings cracked and fell onto the car roof and from there onto the autoroute. Not that it affects the performance of the binding, and I did have exactly the same failure on the other binding a year ago…
When I took the skis into Sanglard Sports that afternoon to get them serviced after another base tearing at the end of the VB and to get the new plate put on, Stan the Man in the ski workshop pointed out that my skis were delaminating. No problem – he could fill the cracks with waterproof glue to prevent it from getting any worse in the short term before I set off on the Haute Route.
And yesterday at the end of the Haute Route the plastic basket on one of my carbon fibre poles tore off after many years of faithful service. Easy to replace with the basket off the spare pole.
I think my kit is trying to tell me something. I’ll try not to listen until the 15th May after a Bernese Oberland tour and a Mont Blanc ski descent…
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