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  1. #276
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    Quote Originally Posted by frorider View Post
    I play a game with my fellow tele skiers on a resort day. I’ll silently tally the number of other tele skiers I’ve seen in lift line or on the slopes, then ask my crew how many they’ve seen that day. Generally they’ve only noticed one or two, while I’ve seen a dozen or more. I’m referring here to resorts that aren’t tele meccas like Alta.

    No idea why I seem to notice tele skiers at a distance. Maybe it’s my sense of smell.
    Bummer we haven’t gotten to play the game this year, eh? Thanks Covid!

  2. #277
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    I'm always on the lookout for tele skiers, I doubt I miss very many. Local hill Great Divide is pretty old school and I'd say percentage-wise I see more there than just about anywhere.

    Couple more from the archives.

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  3. #278
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    Keep it tight

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    Killington may 2007. Click image for larger version. 

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  5. #280
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    Telemark skiing is dead.

    Balls deep

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  6. #281
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    Quote Originally Posted by jmedslc View Post
    Bummer we haven’t gotten to play the game this year, eh? Thanks Covid!
    Next year. Moroni willing.

  7. #282
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    Got some old Voile 3Pin cable binders and a pair of Burnt Mtn Designs Telebulldog binders that I’m no longer using that I’d ship out + beer money to any free healers wanting to rekindle their tele flames (or keep them going) out there. PM me for details.

  8. #283
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    Quote Originally Posted by abraham View Post
    Damn. Out of curiosity Tuco, were you a bird tram rider on tele gear around 08-12?

    Cool pics CS, was just talking recently about when pics were all hosted on Biglines.
    Yeah man, I pretty much had spring season passes most of those years. '11 was a kickass year and I think my brother and I must of had around 75 days @ Snowbird that year. Huge snow year w/ basically everything open till the end, which was July 4th. The AF Twins bootpack was golden all the way till July 3rd(clouds rolled in on the 4th w a drizzly rain). Lap up twins, down to LC, up to baldy hike roundabout FTMFW! God, I love that fukin place!
    I was the burlyish dude w/ Goat at the time that would have made MPPG proud, if not envious. My brother is 6'6" so he's pretty noticeable too. An old friend is a long time SB tele dude, up there every day. We ski around up there w/ him most days. Dude named Vince P. You know him? He's a ripperSpent a lot of time on these there during those days
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  9. #284
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    "fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
    "She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
    "everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy

  10. #285
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    Telemark skiing is dead.

    This week I skied my first 10” pow day on 65mm underfoot 169cm skis and Voile 3-pins with no cables (my “skimo” setup). Harder than I thought but doable. And I didn’t rip out a binding, +1.

  11. #286
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    I believe the children are our future.

    Teach them well and let them lead the way.

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  12. #287
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    Despite all the industry working hard to kill Tele skiing and replace it with Park Rats... I would say... "Dead" my ass........

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    love this
    embrace the gape
    and believe

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    Telemark skiing is dead.

    ^^^That kid is now 21 and she still drops a knee. (bad cell pic warning)

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  15. #290
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    Grant's got the idea. I taught an 11 y/o a couple of weeks ago in honor of World Telemark Day, using some of my daughter's old 75mm gear. This was the son of a woman I patrol with who expressed interest in trying it out so I made it happen.

    Actually I just got out of the way - it took all of two runs for him to do proficient tele turns, then he spent the rest of the day skiing with his friends. He's got my gear on perma-loan until he grows out of it.

    He has already decided, based on independent research, that he and his dad should get Meidjos. Neither his dad nor his dad's wallet have been informed so we'll see how that goes.

    But tele is not dead if this kid has a say.

  16. #291
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    I wonder if one of the reasons Telemark skiing is now dead is due to equipment availability and shipping delays in the era of Covid?

    Equipment coming from Asia is super behind schedule. I can’t imagine the delays on gear shipping from Pangaea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peruvian View Post
    ^^^That kid is now 21 and she still drops a knee. (bad cell pic warning)

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    You should have her teach Buttah about proper form

  18. #293
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    Quote Originally Posted by tuco View Post
    You should have her teach Buttah about proper form
    . . .

  19. #294
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    Plastic boots is not tele skiing ya wankers! Tele most certainly died with the T1.

    And all the chest pumping...yeah, Micah Black was better than you his first day on tele skis, so y'all can just fight for the consolation prize.

    Although, many years ago The Rog did tell me he used to see Buttah up at Loon (?) and he was the rippin' tele skier at that hill...so he's got that going for him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ts01 View Post
    Grant's got the idea. I taught an 11 y/o a couple of weeks ago in honor of World Telemark Day, using some of my daughter's old 75mm gear. This was the son of a woman I patrol with who expressed interest in trying it out so I made it happen.

    Actually I just got out of the way - it took all of two runs for him to do proficient tele turns, then he spent the rest of the day skiing with his friends. He's got my gear on perma-loan until he grows out of it.

    He has already decided, based on independent research, that he and his dad should get Meidjos. Neither his dad nor his dad's wallet have been informed so we'll see how that goes.

    But tele is not dead if this kid has a say.
    Who's Grant?

    Oh and good for you to keep a young boy's dream alive!

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    Telemark skiing, like jazz, isn't dead.
    It just smells funny.
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    Yep, worked at Loon for a bunch of years.
    Tele on the skate skis, no worries
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    crab in my shoe mouth

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    Steezy

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    Quote Originally Posted by buttahflake View Post
    Yep, worked at Loon for a bunch of years.
    Tele on the skate skis, no worries
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    What about those pole straps bro?

    I definitely waisted the energy of my youth being a telemarker. I 'membah, my first time hiking into Tux. Hiked from pinkham up to Tux wearing my Asolo Extreme's and shouldering my Rossi TRS's. Didn't even have decent backpack. Used my college book pack. Made 7 runs all over the place, even off the summit. Oh to be early 20's again, but then I would probably be doing something equally stupid like skiing backwards with no poles, or park or something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fred Pabst View Post
    skiing backwards with no poles, or park or something.
    uh if you prefer to sound less like an old fuck, its called "Switch"
    Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know

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