Every relative survived their service and I grew up knowing that they were special...All had done things we can't contemplate....While some of us have served and "boots" was in the thick of it in Vietnam....the magnitude of WW2 is incomprehensible....From the North Atlantic...pQ17 I think....

Dec. 6 1944....Many Americans were fighting for their lives under withering fire from Germans.....One of the reasons we prevailed was due to a previous event....Dieppe...I thank the Canadians who lost their lives giving their all to the cause of liberating Europe and stomping out Fascism.....5100 me...

Way back used leather straps to hold the boot in the ski with cables for Alpine....Beartraps!.....Rottafella had a version of that.....412?.....Except for hitting debris in the bush worked well....TM

All's well that ends well...We are all members of the Tele Tribe.....Snowshoe Donny's son Telemark's near Anchorage? He too is an engineer and has worked, I think, on Attu cleaning up WW2 debris....Mountain biking and skiing....I suspect he is pretty good at it....Woody keep skiing the steeps and an...

Also Woody....love the old time picture....Think those skis had rocker?.....Love seeing the old time tele pictures....More?....TM

ThanKs lc appreciate the piling on........ on the rock pile....Sure had some great skiing up there and at least once almost got piled in the rocks...Lots of fun!....But the best part was ripping the headwall on 210 e 99's....Sure couldn't do that now but twas wild back then.....One thinger LC....are...

now that's funny jonny.....we all get a kick out of telerock and boy, has he come a long way!! First time I saw him ski was on Little Mountain....He was awesome...Dressed in a full length leather coat....grabbing trees on his decent a 400 foot drop with lots of openings.....Teleking had brought him ...

hey al sorry to have 'pissed' you off.....surely we don't ski the same....use different equipment.....but love the sport....sure hope johnny doesn't ban you for that uncalled fore blast that I took on the aft quarter.....but being spring and all why not have some fun joshing about differences in ski...

Now, now nude man...Close to 70 million Americans agree with me!!!!! Tele didn't start out to be conformist...Still isn't if your not conforming....In downhill wide is what you do...In the kind of tele preached on this site not so much...Remember your own words...Seems like your into Nordic aspects ...

Actually it kinda looks like parallel...don't it?......Kinda is modified parallel ain't it?.....If your a telewhacker....you tele....There isn't any parallel in telemark....Get over it boys...Woodman is telemarking....let him be....Looks good even on fat skis....Teleman