Spreading Telemark | Buddy’s First Tele Day

This was at the end of a short day attempting to teach my buddy to Tele Ski.

We just hiked to the mid mountain lodge at Stratton. My buddy was riding some ancient Scarpa T1s clipped into BD1’s and so BD skis He stole skins from an AT setup he had. Whole setup maybe cost $200.

Conditions were tough for leaning. He had just suffered a rain and thaw event before hitting the slopes and the granular ice was getting skied into piles everywhere except on the more advanced slopes. Variable snow conditions made it really difficult dialing each part of turn down step by step.

I’m no pro Tele Instructor; only been Telemarking 5 seasons. This may have been a bit of the blind leading the blind. We already discussed that my buddy needs to look for a more compact genuflect and use his knees to drive his trailing ski more.

Send my buddy some words of encouragement!