Telemark skiing is dead.

[buttahflake]

I was a way better tele skier than anyone on here back in the 90’s, just sayin is all. None of that paramarking bullshit, fully loading up the back ski and straight up ripping shit. No lie, I was better than you, it’s true. Then the day came when we got K2 Four demos at the shop I was at in Waterville Valley. One of the boys came down and said I needed to try them, grabbed some rental boots and locked down, two runs later, I came down and got fitted for new Nordica’s, haven’t made a tele turn since that day.
Take laps beaters

[XXX-er]

Wow ^^ can i drink your bathwater ?

[buttahflake]

Is that a tele thing, taking baths?
I take showers like real skiers.
Laps

[Danno]

Man, you willingly admit that the K2 Four is the ski that changed your world? lol

[bodywhomper]

I always thought it interesting and funny that “the ski that changed the [tele] world” was the K2 piste stinx, which was the K2 Two.

[buttahflake]

You know nothing, Danny. It was the first shaped ski for many folks on this forum. It was a total game-changer. Plus it had a fucking piezo chip.
So fucking stoopid, you are.

[yeahman]

Well if we're gettin' all nostalgic about it.

[chicken feathers]

Well if we're gettin' all nostalgic about it.

releasable pole straps?

Awesome pics everyone

[XXX-er]

we would buy lightly or never used CMH Heli skis for 107$ from CMH in Banff,

they all had 977 demo bindings mounted and the shorter lengths were often never used

so for 100 $ + tax you got a pair of rossi's that skied were much like the Tua cirque

but at 1/4 of the price so they were perfect for the cheap telewanker

[Peruvian]

The K2 Totally Piste was the K2 Four with a different top sheet.

[bodywhomper]

You know nothing, Danny. It was the first shaped ski for many folks on this forum. It was a total game-changer. Plus it had a fucking piezo chip.
So fucking stoopid, you are.

This must have been an East coast thing....

ETA: great photos, all!

[wra]

I've been skiing free heel for about 45 years. In the 70s the tele turn was best if not only way to get down a hill.
I've met the best telemark skier countless times. My friend



was and still is, one of um. Saw him today.
Mitch was a hell of a guy and I miss him, RIP.

[~mikey b]

we would buy lightly or never used CMH Heli skis for 107$ from CMH in Banff,

they all had 977 demo bindings mounted and the shorter lengths were often never used

so for 100 $ + tax you got a pair of rossi's that skied were much like the Tua cirque

but at 1/4 of the price so they were perfect for the cheap telewanker

I’m delivering a very new pair of those to a Maggot in Squaw Valley this weekend.

[b0ardski]

we would buy lightly or never used CMH Heli skis for 107$ from CMH in Banff,

they all had 977 demo bindings mounted and the shorter lengths were often never used

so for 100 $ + tax you got a pair of rossi's that skied were much like the Tua cirque

but at 1/4 of the price so they were perfect for the cheap telewanker

I loved my Tuas till the binding ripped out by burying the tip in a bump, upgraded to 7s's with rivas and rocked those with og terminators til I started one planking full time; my knee hurts just thinking about it!

Thats just nuts right there

[bodywhomper]

I’m delivering a very new pair of those to a Maggot in Squaw Valley this weekend.

Volkl explosives, not Rossi’s or tuas. Great ski for tele, IMO.

[XXX-er]

I’m delivering a very new pair of those to a Maggot in Squaw Valley this weekend.

I think those ^^ are the new (er) fangled model of CMH Heli-ski



I heard these ^^ were an old rossi 3G profile from the 80's, i had spent time on a borrowed set of Tua cirques and I thot these skied very similar, I used to drive me with alico double boots and then T-3's, the last GF took the purple T-3's so the only tele boot I got left is a T-1 which pretty much boss these around

100 + tax got a good cheap tele-ski and a demo binding, so a number of telewankers in town picked these up from CMH and traded away the 977 demo, it was real easy to get a set put on the bus

[~mikey b]

aha!

[bodywhomper]

Since it’s Thursday, I found some older tele-ish photo prints. I do not have a lot of photos, unfortunately, they are in disarray, so I couldn’t find some of my favorites :grrr:

yours truly, main couloir off feather peak:


Gully off carson peak (I really liked those evolution skis - very heavy):

Jmetzler (rare use of teles):


Multiday pack tele turn mt lamarck area (me):


Jmetzler mt darwin (another rare use of teles):

[rockcreek]

Fkna tele stoke now we’re talking....last week’s venture into prince william sound. Viva tele!

[Meadow Skipper]

An old picture, but my form was decent, considering I was on Targas.

[wickstad]

[wickstad]

[Danno]

An old picture, but my form was decent, considering I was on Targas.

Was that pic a TTips cover photo? Grizzly by Indy Pass?

[ripvw]

Tele contrails.

[bodywhomper]

Found another (damn watermark) of me.
Kirkwood: