Peter L

Here's the reply from Fritschi: We don't have any report about toe piece freezing preventing a lateral release. During tests in the laboratory with iced toe units (- 30 degres celsius) we had never problems in lateral release.

Hi Jeff, thanks very much for this reply. I also sent my question to Fritschi, and if I hear anything of back from them I'll post their answer here, in case anyone else is interested.

Have you heard anything about the toe pieces of the Vipec icing up and not moving laterally as they are designed to do? I've skied on Vipec's since the Evo update first came out and have not had any problem with this, but yesterday was talking with a friend in Bozeman who told me that one of the backcountry shops there stopped carrying Vipecs for this reason. I'm looking to buy a pair of Vipecs for resort use, so transitioning from skinning to skiing isn't an issue, but any restriction (such as from icing...