How it all fits together

On request from my good friend in Telluride I'm posting some pictures of the binding set up in close up. My next top sheet needs to be something that allows the bindings to stand out more!

Uphill/touring mode. The plates off to the side are popped into your back pack for the walk up.

The very lightweight dynafit toe piece - you can lock in with or without releasing options (though as I haven't skied them really I'm not sure how good the release would be).

These lightweight voile race style (hard boot) toe and heel pieces screw into the normal voile sliding plates that use a pin to secure to the board. A number of men have commented that this really stripped down model wouldn't perform well enough for them. However, I've been really happy with the performance - getting a close fit on the boots is probably the most important/difficult aspect.

Boots strapped in and ready to ride, I was amazed about how easy it was to carve on a very wobbly splitboard as soon as the hard boots came into play. Note that the Dynafit toe pieces are really light, haven't noticed that they are on the board when riding downhill at all.  

I enjoy that the hard boots are a lot closer to the board than a SB binding would be when mounted on the voile plates. This adds to the improved responsiveness. In this vein a better set up would be to prototype a binding that has the required toe/heel loops straight in the slider plates (with no need for the grey plastic you can see). There are a number of splitboarders out there developing this and I'm excited to say what they come up with. However, whether they can customising the size of those bindings to fit a wide range of boots (especially small girly/low in demand size) remains to be seen.

All the gear on my board. As DJ Eddy commented - it's so low profile!

Many ideas for future modifications keep popping up and there is still a lot of room for improvement. I'll keep you posted!