by oggy » Fri Mar 20, 2020 4:22 am
It depends on what you do with them, unless you plan on long multi-day tours, and if you care about going downhill, I'd be careful with going too light. I've rented "proper" high-end, lightweight touring gear before (with reasonably well-fitting shoes) and skiing down in anything but light powder was not a pleasant experience.
Personally I'm skinning up with my Movement Jams and Tyrolia Ambition bindings and my regular alpine boots, as I mostly go slackcountry. It's not great, and de-icing that particular binding to put it back into ski mode sucks, especially if you're somewhere up on a ridge and the wind is blowing and you just want to get the hell down. But I've done tours of up to 1km vertical with the setup, though I wouldn't wanna do much more than that. Also depends on where you live, my tours are in the Alps so during the season almost all of them will start below the altitude of Denver.
If the Swiss ski stores weren't closed now together with the resorts, I'd opt for a pin binding setup though, and something with a bit of tip rocker. While I put the fact that pin bindings work on the same level of amazing as airplanes flying, they don't seem to suffer from pre-release problems. Anecdotally, I have friends who have hucked cliffs with those.