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Adventures in telemarking...
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

I had my first taste of powder on telemark skis on Saturday. I say "taste" quite deliberately because the transition between piste and powder turned out to be, by far, the hardest thing to do. The problem being that the lead ski hits the powder; the trailing ski catches up; your weight goes forward and you do a full tele-faceplant. I am, at least, consistent - with a 100% record of eating snow on each and every transition.

I must admit that I'm finding this learning telemark lark a very interesting experience - having improved substantially by making the binding more active (as per ski's advice) and (probably) by having given my brain / body time to assimilate stuff.

So, two weeks ago, I could barely control my speed. Edging didn't exist and I was over-steering. And now I seem to be able to carve on green runs and gentle blues with nice, smooth, progressive lead changes. I even managed to make a fist of getting down an un-pisted red. It wasn't pretty, but I was (largely) telemarking.

Have any of the other telemark beginners managed to get out "for real" so far?
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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PhillipStanton, Well done ! snowHead For powder, more weight on the back ski helps. Try some bumps Shocked
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