Thumbs Up for Yostmark
February 14th, 2009Posted in Skiing in the Tetons
I don’t buy a lot of junk. I’m not much of a consumer, and that includes skis stuff. The skis I do own, I ski until bases and the edges look like they were last tuned by Red Green before I retire them. So I appreciate a good ski shop and a good ski tech. Here in the Teton Valley we are fortunate to have several good ski shops.
This being Valentine’s Day I want to sent a little love out to Yostmark for again coming through and resusitating another pair of aging bindings. A few years ago I put a new pair of Solomon bindings on my old, but still excellent Kneissel light touring x-c skis. For the past year, whenever the snow was around freezing temperature, the bindings were being forced open and releasing my boot from compacted snow turning into a wedge of ice under the well worn and very loose rubber toe bumper. It was highly annoying to be striding along and suddenly not have a skis under my foot.
I finally relented and brought my problem into Yostmark. Lars hadn’t encountered this problems before, but understood what was going wrong. I left the skis in his good hands. The next day I returned to find restored bindings with an assortment of replaced parts Lars had savaged from who knows where. My bill, a whopping $5!
Last year, when my hard skiing son returned my old Fritschi randonee bindings to me I found they were in pretty sad shape from all his backcountry adventures. Before remounting them on a new pair of backcountry powder boards I took them in to Yostmark. The next day, another miracle, almost new looking bindings regenerated from another night of scrounging parts. I don’t remember what my bill was, but it was a trifle compared to what I expected.
God, I wish Yostmark worked on cars!
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