{"id":275,"date":"2013-12-08T23:51:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T23:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2013-12-09T22:15:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T22:15:59","slug":"the-benefits-of-buying-local-or-thank-you-wilderness-sports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/08\/the-benefits-of-buying-local-or-thank-you-wilderness-sports-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The benefits of buying local&#8230; or Thank You Wilderness Sports For Making Things Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/wpid-20131208_150441.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" title=\"20131208_150441.jpg\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/wpid-20131208_150441.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broken Fritschi<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks so much to Frank and the guys at Wilderness Sports.<\/p>\n<p>I just bought some Fritschi Diamir Freeride Pro Randonee Bindings at Wilderness Sports last week. I just got them back from mounting yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>After about 4 hours of fast skiing without lift lines, I initiated a right hand turn and suddenly found myself without a ski. Fortunately I was most of the way down the run and ski patrol was already there with a snowmobile, for a snowboarder with a busted shoulder. Chris the patroller, was kind enough to give me a ride to the Ruby lift, where I was able to catch the gondola back down.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes down the road at Wilderness Sports I explained what happened and they were happy to send them back for warranty. However, after talking to Frank, who broke 3 of them last year, they gave me a new binding from store stock. 15 minutes later, I was out the door with a freshly mounted pair of bindings!<\/p>\n<p>I can see why the binding broke. The toe piece is only held on by a 3\/4&#8243; square of plastic. I won&#8217;t be buying another pair until the design changes.<\/p>\n<p>But thanks again to Wilderness Sports for making things right.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to make a pot roast and wait for traffic to die down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks so much to Frank and the guys at Wilderness Sports. I just bought some Fritschi Diamir Freeride Pro Randonee Bindings at Wilderness Sports last week. I just got them back from mounting yesterday. After about 4 hours of fast skiing without lift lines, I initiated a right hand turn and suddenly found myself without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3p6ZE-4r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}