Dry land initial impressions -

The Scarpa boot is pretty soft (softer than my Syner Gs and a lot softer than the Enger-Gs (I just bought). The bindings are pretty soft with the green cartridges installed.  These are the rigid tubes, the red being extra rigid (there are two less rigid ones - orange and blue).  This softness is apparently by design so we'll see how it is on the snow. There is also some resistance in the touring mode.  Most say they cannot feel it on snow.

On snow -

The edge hold on the rear ski in tele is nothing short of amazing.  The forward flex is very progressive.  So the boot that seems soft is not on snow.  I went back to my regular combo and definitely found that the rear ski did not engage as well.  The night was pretty icy, and the Super Stinx are clearly better on that than the JakBC I normally ski (for this type of

condition) but I clearly think rear ski edge hold is better with NTN. Conversely I did not like them as well in parallel, hard to say why but definitely a bigger sweet spot in tele.  The touring mode resistance the you feel on land is not at all noticeable on snow.

NTN setup -

Scarpa Terminator X with NTN green cartridge and 181 Super Stinx

Regular setup -

Garmont Ener-G with Hammerheads in position 4 and 179 JakBC

For anyone who stops by and demos the NTN setup this weekend please extend a big thank you to Joachim at the Trail Shop for setting this up.  Getting any NTN stuff here to look at this early after the demos have started out west is very impressive.

Some photos of the binding are here - NTN Photos