Ski season starts soon and I’m seeing lots of things online that I’m too chicken to post comments on, so I’ll say what I want here and everyone can fuck off.
Telemark Skiing In the Backcountry
It’s dead; let it die. I telemarked for 20 years and glad I did as it helped me become a much better skier than I would have been if I didn’t learn to use telemark technique while pushing skinny 207cm misery sticks with leather three pins boots mated to Chili cable bindings while skiing in “all conditions and all terrain”. But when I read “mic drop” comments like “if you left telemark to ski better in the backcountry you were doing it wrong” it makes me not want to engage in a public debate. No I left telemark after 20 years because I was so disappointed in NTN that I dropped a few Kg off my feet and got on dynafit.
Dynafit, to me, is all about going UP. After 20 years of shovelling a trail (as opposed to breaking a trail using a technique much like an icebreaker makes its path) my lower back and periformis muscles were so relieved by using dynafit bindings that I can now go much further and longer than I could with tele gear even though I am older. Yea, new telemark bindings now come with a “free pivot” to make breaking trail better, but that comes with the penalty of added weight (whereas dyafit is lighter and has no added lifted weight when you raise your heel to stride as the weight slides along the surface with the ski) and complexity but without a reliable release mechanism that I want if I’m ever in an avalanche.
Going down is just a bonus. Telemark turns are cool and if you are on gear that requires the use of the techniques inherent to telemark skiing then it makes sense. But if you insist on using this technique with modern heavy telemark equipment then you are at a disadvantage going up as well as probably spending at least some time fixing your gear. I know we did this a lot in my telemark days. The binding surface area that is available to meet the demands of a full on tele turn that goes from fast acceleration to dead stop makes breaking thing inevitable. If going up and making summits is your thing then dynafit is the only real options and if that comes with Alpine technique I’m just fine with that because people who think telemark is more beautiful or has more soul know nothing of either.
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Update to add another telemarker that just doesn’t get it.
“FYI…Telemark is only dead to people who never really did it in the first place.”
No telemark is alive to people that took it up for the wrong reason (going down) and don’t bother using it for its real value (going up). Telemark is just another tool to move in the mountains. Get over it.