New to Telemark, advice on skis please!
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:38 pm
Greetings!
I have telemarked once in my life like 9 years ago and I loved it. It was out west on a mountain in Oregon but I don’t recall which one. A friend took me and loaned me some gear. I live in the Midwest and I alpine skied all through my youth but for some reason dropped it as an adult for many years, until last year when my wife and daughter started getting into it as relative beginners and I decided to go with them and try it and wow was it fun! It was hard to believe I stayed away that long. We bought decent gear for everybody and I had a ball but I really had this yearning to get into telemark. At the local ski swap last year I picked up some amazing year at unbelievable prices: a pair of like new Garmont Prophet boots, NTN Freeride bindings with what model ski I can’t remember, because the skis ended up having small bindings on them and the boots I got that fit me needed large bindings and I didn’t realize there was a difference at the time. The next day at the swap someone else happily bought the skis from me for what I paid for them, which was like 100 bucks and in retrospect I should’ve pulled the bindings off and sold them to fund a set of larges but I didn’t know any better. Fast forward to now I have a set of large freerides showing up in the mail any day, I still have my boots, and now I need to decide what skis to use out of the three pairs that I have, which all have alpine bindings on them and I’m not sure if I will continue to Alpine ski or not once I start telemarking.
The skis I have are:
Dynastar Course Pro 177
Volkl Supersport S5 168
4Frnt CJS Signature 180
I’m guessing the 4Frnt skis would not be a good choice as they are really designed for powder and are a relatively straight wide ski and we don’t see a whole lot of powder in Wisconsin! So I guess it’s between the Dynastars or the Volkls unless I God forbid find a fourth pair of skis to use and decide to leave these three as they are. Opinions? Advice?
Thanks,
Peter.
I have telemarked once in my life like 9 years ago and I loved it. It was out west on a mountain in Oregon but I don’t recall which one. A friend took me and loaned me some gear. I live in the Midwest and I alpine skied all through my youth but for some reason dropped it as an adult for many years, until last year when my wife and daughter started getting into it as relative beginners and I decided to go with them and try it and wow was it fun! It was hard to believe I stayed away that long. We bought decent gear for everybody and I had a ball but I really had this yearning to get into telemark. At the local ski swap last year I picked up some amazing year at unbelievable prices: a pair of like new Garmont Prophet boots, NTN Freeride bindings with what model ski I can’t remember, because the skis ended up having small bindings on them and the boots I got that fit me needed large bindings and I didn’t realize there was a difference at the time. The next day at the swap someone else happily bought the skis from me for what I paid for them, which was like 100 bucks and in retrospect I should’ve pulled the bindings off and sold them to fund a set of larges but I didn’t know any better. Fast forward to now I have a set of large freerides showing up in the mail any day, I still have my boots, and now I need to decide what skis to use out of the three pairs that I have, which all have alpine bindings on them and I’m not sure if I will continue to Alpine ski or not once I start telemarking.
The skis I have are:
Dynastar Course Pro 177
Volkl Supersport S5 168
4Frnt CJS Signature 180
I’m guessing the 4Frnt skis would not be a good choice as they are really designed for powder and are a relatively straight wide ski and we don’t see a whole lot of powder in Wisconsin! So I guess it’s between the Dynastars or the Volkls unless I God forbid find a fourth pair of skis to use and decide to leave these three as they are. Opinions? Advice?
Thanks,
Peter.