Well there in lies the big delema. Go to light, loose performance and possibly break stuff, go to heavy suffer up hill. If you intend on sking bumps in VT aggressively and often, I would not suggest using an AT specific binding, boot and skis combo. Some of the Bush pilot group has been going with the marker's and regular ski boots. I have seen others with the same set up and they use the newer AT compatible boots like Technica and Lange. Actually many of the boot manufacturers are getting into the combined set up now. The binding is the key it seems. You have to give up the lighter set ups for durability. The one thing that scares me on the AT technology is the releasing in a fall. I am not totally sold on it and don't entirely trust them. In powder I am not that concerned but when skiing bumps I am very concern.
That being said I went for the two set up quiver. Scarpa Maestrale, dynafit bindings and K2 sidestash skis for BC and then a regular boot/Ski/Binding set up for the lift serviced. I too like to ski fall line bumps on a regular basis and when I did this on an AT set up a few times it scared the Sh*% out of me performance wise. I felt that I gave up to much. In VT there are too many days that the bumps are not perfect. Now if you got out west that might be a different story. That is my take. Good luck.
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