Are You Ruining Your Touring Bindings Without Realizing It?

As skiers, we're by and large pretty good about taking care of our gear in the middle of winter. It's pretty obvious when your bases need a wax or your edges need a sharpen, and not hard to address that yourself, or drop your planks off at the local shop for a quick overnight tune. However, come spring and summer, when it's time to (sadly) hang things up for a few months, I'd wager that we're far less careful with our gear. Perhaps its laziness, disbelief that the season is over, or just plain old ignorance, but we should all perhaps be taking better care of our stuff in the summer.

ATK Bindings just dropped a very cool—and very artfully shot—short video detailing a few steps to take in order to keep your gear in fighting shape. Interestingly, it focuses on your ski bindings, something I definitely don't think about much. Sure, I've heard some ski techs say to turn back your DINs on your alpine bindings to preserve the release spring, but the concept of cleaning and lubricating pin bindings is something that definitely doesn't get talked about much.