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For the last decade, hybrid touring bindings have been trying to answer a deceptively simple question: how much downhill performance can be retained while still allowing a skier to tour uphill? The Marker Duke PT 16 takes a strong swing at answering that conundrum.

Essentially, the Duke PT 16 is a full alpine binding that conceals a pin toe setup and climbing bar. As with most things in life, there are tradeoffs. In this case, it’s weight. But for skiers who charge hard, those extra grams get you a downhill-oriented setup that feels like a conventional alpine clamp.

Marker Duke PT 16 Specs

• Stated Weight: 1,050g per binding in uphill mode / 1,350g per binding in downhill mode
• DIN Range: 6–16
• Brake Widths: 100mm, 125mm
• Heel Riser: 10°
• Stand Height: 24mm
• Heel Adjustment: 60mm
• Boot Compatibility: Alpine, AT, GripWalk

Design and Features

The Duke PT 16 has a 6-16 DIN range, a 24mm stand height and a substantial heel with plenty of elasticity. The binding accommodates Alpine, GripWalk and touring boot soles with BSLs from 240 to 360mm. Brakes come in a somewhat limited 100 and 125mm width. There is a lot of hardware, and it’s all there for a reason. Marker has essentially built an alpine binding that can shed part of its toe when it’s time to climb.

In touring mode, the upper portion of the toe swings forward revealing the tech pins underneath. You can choose to tour with it still attached and angled forward, or remove it completely and take 300 grams off each foot, but leaves you with a piece of binding hardware that shouldn’t be misplaced.

The heel’s brake locks into the up position for touring and incorporates a modest 10° climbing aid. That’s right, there are only two climbing positions: flat and a 10° lift when the climbing bar is raised. 

Getting back into downhill mode requires putting the upper toe section back into place and locking it into the base unit. Once everything is seated, the setup is secure and ready for descent. When skiing, the heel allows the boot to move vertically under load while maintaining pressure against the binding, which is part of what gives the Duke its alpine-like feel. 

One feature that’s a big plus is the metal bar on top of the toe piece that provides a convenient way to scrape ice from the bottom of your ski boot before stepping into the binding. It’s a small feature, but when you are standing on top of a puckering line, details matter.

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Downhill Performance

With the upper toe locked into place, the binding has the feel of a serious alpine setup. The 24mm stand height keeps the boot relatively close to the ski, while the substantial heel provides the support and elasticity expected from a high-DIN binding. Under aggressive skiing, the Duke transfers your energy quickly, resulting in a predictable feel, particularly compared to lighter tech touring bindings.

That weight difference is the whole reason for such a burly design. The Duke doesn’t ask you to accept a lightweight touring binding’s downhill characteristics in exchange for having pins. It puts a considerably more substantial binding under your boot and takes on the weight that comes with it. 

There is also a psychological component to this type of binding. Skiers who spend a lot of time charging hard tend to rely on retention and elasticity characteristics. The way a binding responds when it gets fully loaded with the DIN screwed high is part of that familiarity and the Duke belongs in the top end of that world.

Uphill Performance

The weight of the Duke is the first thing you notice on the skintrack. Even with the upper toe section removed, 1,050 grams per binding is pretty hefty, especially compared to literally any tech setup ever made. On a long tour that added weight adds up, but removing the upper toe does make a meaningful difference. Three hundred grams per foot comes off the ski, and the remaining setup provides a fairly normal touring stride. The flat and 10° climbing positions cover most of the usual skintrack situations, but there are times when a higher climbing aid would be nice. 

The Duke works best when uphill access is a means to an end. The design makes the most sense on shorter storm-day tours, sidecountry missions or more technical objectives where the descent is more important than minimizing every gram. If the goal is to cover enormous distances as efficiently as possible, there are better options.

The other consideration is transitions. It takes a while to transition this binding, because there is simply more to do. The upper toe has to be popped open or come completely off before touring and go back into place before skiing. And don’t forget that the removable component has to live somewhere safe while the skins are on. I’d suggest a dedicated place in your backpack. None of it is particularly difficult once the process becomes familiar, but it is more involved than most touring bindings.

Comparisons

The Duke PT 16 is competing directly with a small group of hybrid bindings aimed at skiers who want serious downhill performance with the ability to tour on the same setup.

The Tyrolia Attack Hybrid 14 is perhaps the closest comparison mechanically. It also uses a removable toe system that switches the binding between touring and alpine configurations. The Attack Hybrid is lighter and has a DIN range of 4-14, with a 9° climbing position. The basic philosophy is similar: accept more weight and complexity than a conventional tech binding in exchange for a more alpine-oriented downhill setup.

CAST Freetour is another direct competitor, but its modular design works differently. Instead of converting the toe itself, CAST uses a dedicated tech toe for climbing and a Look alpine toe piece and heel for the descent. The tech toe is swapped out when it is time to ski, leaving the skier with the familiar feel and release characteristics of a Look Pivot 15 or 18. For skiers already committed to the Look system, that’s a significant part of the appeal.

The Salomon/Atomic/Armada Shift2 16 takes a different approach to the same problem. The toe converts between touring and downhill configurations without requiring the skier to remove an upper toe section and carry it in a pack. At roughly 1,210 grams per binding, it is lighter than the Duke PT 16 in downhill mode, while its 8-16 DIN range puts it squarely in the same aggressive skier category.

While we haven’t tested it at POWDER, the new ATK HY is also worth comparing, mostly because it offers the same type of alpine performance at a small fraction of the weight.  

Ultimately, these four bindings are chasing the same skier. The differences come down to weight, transition process, touring efficiency and the downhill binding platform itself. That last part can be more important than the spec sheet suggests. Hard-charging skiers often develop a strong preference for a particular brand’s binding system because they know how it feels and releases. A Marker skier may gravitate toward the Duke, while someone accustomed to Salomon, Tyrolia or Look may have a different preference.

There isn’t a universal winner here. The better choice is often the system that gives a skier the combination of touring function they need and the downhill binding characteristics they already trust.

Pros

• Excellent downhill performance for a touring binding
• 6-16 DIN range
• Substantial alpine-style construction
• 300-gram-per-foot weight reduction when the upper toe is removed
• Alpine, GripWalk and touring boot compatibility
• Built-in metal bar for clearing ice from the boot sole

Cons

• Heavy compared to dedicated tech bindings
• More complicated transitions
• When upper toe section is removed it must NOT be misplaced
• More hardware and moving parts than a conventional touring setup

Conclusion

The Duke PT 16 makes a compelling case for carrying extra weight uphill if downhill performance is the priority. It is considerably heavier and more complicated than a dedicated tech binding, but it also gives the skier a downhill platform that feels much closer to a conventional alpine binding.

The Duke is particularly appealing to skiers who spend most of their time chasing aggressive descents and want touring capability without changing the release characteristics of their trusted setup. For long approaches and weight-conscious missions, there are better tools. For getting uphill so you can ski ultra-aggressively on the way down, hit huge airs, tour to a backcountry jump, or just want to ski the resort hard with the capability to tour, the Duke PT 16 is one of the strongest options in the hybrid category.

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It’s starting to look a lot like winter in Aspen, Colorado.

A series of snowy days throughout this week has produced top-to-bottom coverage in the town and on the mountains, making for a nice tease ahead of the four local resorts’ planned opening dates, which begin arriving late this month.

From Snowmass to Aspen Mountain, as much as eight inches of snow piled up in the past 24 hours, the group of resorts said in an email. The Aspen Mountain snow stake looks like it may have even climbed a little higher than that. 

The widespread snow made for more than a few wintry teases. Around Aspen, flakes zipped past the Silver Queen Gondola station overnight while the slopes looked ready—well, close to ready—for ski season as of Thursday morning. 

It could be the last storm for a little while. The coming days look dry for Colorado, likely through the end of next week, according to an update published by OpenSnow meteorologist Sam Collentine. 

Still, Aspen’s resorts have time to get their ski boots under them before the season starts. These are their opening dates. 

• Aspen Mountain: November 26
• Aspen Highlands: December 12
• Buttermilk: December 12
• Snowmass: November 26

Now, without further ado, here are some scenes from the November snow.

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Out West, another resort contender is joining the early-season shuffle: Lake Louise, Alberta, will kick off winter earlier than planned on Sunday, November 1, per a recent announcement.

The resort originally planned to open on November 6.

This marks Lake Louise’s second-earliest opening in history and, according to the resort, comes courtesy of cold October weather and its hardworking team. 

At Lake Louise—as at most other ski resorts that open this time of year—the digs will be modest to start, with access to the Easy Street trail via the Juniper Express. But Lake Louise will offer two terrain parks with jumps and rails. The resort’s set to be open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Lake Louise’s webcams show solid fall snow coverage.

At the time of writing this, Lake Louise’s neighbor, Banff Sunshine Village, hasn’t shared any news about opening. But both resorts tend to open around the same time. You can check Sunshine Village’s Instagram page for the latest news. 

Lake Louise’s planned opening comes after two regular frontrunners, Arapahoe Basin and Keystone Resort, Colorado, kicked off the North American season this week. Another ski area in the state, Wolf Creek, plans to open on Halloween.

Beyond that, many resorts aren’t slated to open until late November. Even if you’re too far away to stop by Alberta or Colorado, though, it’s worth seeing these openings as a sign we’re all headed in the right direction. Before too long, it’ll be time to click in.

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Since the beginning of time (or the invention of the patriarchy), men have been trying to design things for women without actually consulting women or considering that perhaps women are not just “small, weak men,” when it comes to biomechanics.

Things as simple as the pockets on women’s pants and as complex as most modern birth control methods provide fantastic (and cringey) examples of this, as do nearly 100% of women’s skis on the market, until now.

Palisades Tahoe-bred skier, Anna Dailey, is no stranger to entrepreneurship or catering to women’s needs. Dailey worked as Chief of Staff at the robotic delivery company Coco, coached the ski team she grew up on at Palisades, and, most recently, worked as the Director of Operations and Chief of Staff at the audio-erotica company Quinn.

This week, Dailey officially launched her own ski brand, Rumor, with their aptly named new ski, the Debut 102. Despite the relatively wide breadth that calling a ski all-mountain can cast, there’s nothing unintentional about the construction of Rumor’s first product.

Women are the fastest-growing demographic in snowsports, but Dailey’s new brand, Rumor, is the only women-owned ski brand on the market since the folding of Coalition Snow earlier this year.

The Debut 102 will be available for $959 at rumor-ski.com. Skiers who join Rumor’s waitlist will get first access to the ski.

Rumor Debut 102 Specs & Construction

• Lengths Available: 162cm, 169cm, 176cm, 183cm, 190cm
• Sidecut: 136mm-102mm-127mm (176cm)
• Radius: 20m (176cm)
• Profile: Rocker-Camber-Rocker
• Weight: 2086g
• Colorway options: Hearysay, Redacted, Grapevine

The Debut 102 has a 102mm waist width, putting it squarely in the middle of the all-mountain range, with wide tips and tails for soft-snow performance. The ski is available in a range of lengths that definitely trend towards the longer end of the spectrum for women’s-specific skis, but it has sizes broken out into nice intervals for a range of options.

For reference, Stöckli’s women’s specific ski, the Nela 93, only comes in three lengths ranging between 156cm and 170cm.

Notably, the Debut 102 has a 20m turn radius, give or take a tiny bit depending on the ski length. Dailey noted in a recent Instagram post that many women’s skis tend to have shorter turn radii and sidecuts, which can feel a bit like the ski is helping you initiate a turn, because they’re built with the assumption that those skiing them need or want that help.

However, women tend to have a shorter hip-to-knee-to-foot angle (Q Angle) than men, which actually makes it easier for women to create the knee/ankle angulation that initiates a ski turn. As a result, a longer radius can actually feel smoother through a turn and less reactive for folks with shorter Q angles.

A good bit of tip rocker, and just a touch of tail rocker combined with 7mm of camber underfoot also gives the Debut 102 a really nice, long effective edge, but allows for skiers to release turns easily in the tail and float in soft snow, making them a bit more playful than a fully directional ski.

Dailey also addressed one of the biggest elephants in the room for women’s skis: structure. The Debut 102 uses a combination of poplar/ash cores, which give the ski energy while keeping it durable and sturdy with the ash. Two sheets of Titanal sandwich the core, giving the ski a refreshingly burly construction that dampens them and creates more edge-to-edge stability.

Lastly, a layer of triaxial fiberglass helps provide a more progressive flex along the length of the ski while increasing torsional stability.

The final construction of the Debut 102 was decided upon with input from skiers with a range of abilities, from intermediate resort skiers to IFSA 4* competition winners like Mari Hanson.

“I was blown away by their power and well-roundedness. This is a ski that can do it all-moguls, groomers, corn, powder, chopped powder, etc. This is a ski that still has a backbone and something to press against while being more playful in the tip and tail. A friendly, maneuverable, yet strong ski that can take you anywhere,” said Hanson.

Skiers have three minimal yet tasteful colorway options to choose from at launch, in a further nod to Dailey’s deep understanding of what so many women skiers are looking for.

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