186 BD Drifts. This is a slight betrayal because I swore I'd never ride anything but On3Ps ever again. Here's the thing: I was a bit torn coming up with a touring setup.
My ideal touring ski is obviously the Billy Goat Tour 191. I wanted to go light and put some tech binders on 'em to go with my new Cochise Pro Lights. But riding those suckers with Dynafits on them? It doesn't do the ski justice. However, I"m just getting into touring and I don't particularly want to stick Duke EPFs on ~10lbs of ski - the whole ski setup would be 16 pounds. Boots are another 3.5-4lbs, you're looking at hauling 20 lbs on my feet. Do-able? Sure, but not optimal.
So, I WILL get the Billy Goats and an alpine style binding, but that's next season's purchase. This year, I go with the Drifts, at 7 lbs 8 oz. I'll find a set of Dynafit speed radicals at 350 grams per, and with the boots, the whole setup weighs in at under 13 pounds - roughly 2/3 of what the above setup. Drifts are soft noodly suckers anyway, so they're not for charging. Just relatively low angle stuff, trees etc. So I don't have to worry too much about overdoing it on the tech bindings.
As with everything I always end up with a quiver.
