Cast 2.0 for bakcountry and rope tows

[smokes]

Cast released their new lineup, looks like they remedied some of the old issues with toe pop and things. Looks sick.

I've been touring with ATK Freeraiders on some head kore, but after a scary prerelease in a couloir in cooke city last season and less enjoyable downhill with them than in my Nightsticks, I'm considering ditching my old touring setup and getting the freetour 2.0 upgrade on my Nightsticks. I have my own dedicated park/street skis, but after originally getting the nightsticks for park, I really wanna tour with them too. Definetly the most fun skis I've ever skied, and maybe with the cast on them I won't get cooked next time I ski backcountry, other than on the uphill. Any one have thoughts on skiing park 5-10 times a season with the cast system? Any opinions or public shaming?

I've gone from all-mountain dork --> big mountain wannabe --> skimo wannabe --> wait park skiing is super rad --> how bout I just do manpowered backcountry, street, and park rope tows; maybe that will influence the advice! Thanks homies

 

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[mattytru]

I've skied a moderate amount of park on my 1.0 CAST setup and they have held up well. No discernible difference in terms of toe wiggle. My biggest worry was knocking the toe posts around, but it hasn't seemed to happen at all. I'd say the biggest thing is that it feels the tiniest bit strange sliding rails and in particular doing technical rail tricks with the CASTs, simply due to the minute amount of play in the toes as compared to an actual Pivot toe. If your question is if they will hold up, yes, they definitely will. The biggest thing with any CAST setup is really the quality of the mount/install. If you got a weak mount I could see those posts coming loose with repeated rail bashing. But then again they would probably come loose anyways when charging in backcountry terrain. My set is 3 seasons old with 150+ tours on them and they are holding up great.

 

[hamsauce]

My skis break before my CAST system breaks. No complaints here. I know [tag=254933]@brownetown[/tag] has CAST on some park sticks, how are those beauties holding up?

Seriously just go on CASTs website and find a certified dealer who mounts more CASTs than any other shop in the area since they carry it.

I've skied a moderate amount of park on my 1.0 CAST setup and they have held up well. No discernible difference in terms of toe wiggle. My biggest worry was knocking the toe posts around, but it hasn't seemed to happen at all. I'd say the biggest thing is that it feels the tiniest bit strange sliding rails and in particular doing technical rail tricks with the CASTs, simply due to the minute amount of play in the toes as compared to an actual Pivot toe. If your question is if they will hold up, yes, they definitely will. The biggest thing with any CAST setup is really the quality of the mount/install. If you got a weak mount I could see those posts coming loose with repeated rail bashing. But then again they would probably come loose anyways when charging in backcountry terrain. My set is 3 seasons old with 150+ tours on them and they are holding up great.