fisheater wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 30, 2025 8:19 am

There are no Telemark turns without flex at the BoF.

Got that right, this is just AT skiing without heel options, regardless of the XC racing skis.

Ya know, I always have a transceiver (I use a Barryvox) on my person and a probe and a shovel in my pack. It's a habit, a good habit, skiing in Colorado. Many of the places I ski have low avi danger, but then again, ya never know. The shovel, even in non avi terrain, is incredibly useful for buildin...

I don't work for Scarpa. but got this by email today. If you're interested, here's your chance:

https://us.scarpa.com/?_kx=5AuC3ohaDHGl ... TpA.RN8uby

Why spend all that Yanqui dollar on beat up used skins when a brand new pair of similar Black Diamond/Ascensions can be had for less than $14 with free shipping? These are excellent quality, brand new in the bag. I buy a few pair every season, just for gifts. https://www.ebay.com/itm/265478314757?_s...

The inner boot you have might have come from their next boot which was a leather boot with a taller plastic cuff, might have been called a Merrell Extreme, everything was called extreme in the late 1980's. I didn't think of that solution, but he's right, the liner is from a different model of Merre...

That appears to be a pair of Merrell double leather tele boots with a Nordica or similar downhill boot liner inserted in place of the regular Merrell lower cut inner boots. I could be mistaken, but I also was selling beaucoup leather tele boots in the 80's and 90's, in Colorado, by the hundreds, and...

I PM'd the OP in 2020, who said he was working on an improved tip. Not a word about it since, and he's not posted on the board about anything since Nov 2022.

I skied with 1st-gen Norwegian Americans from time to time when I lived in Summit County, which would've been in the late 1970's into the late 1980's. Those guys were able to do tele turns on wood XC skis using floppy Alfa boots and Troll 3-pins...even at Mountain Rescue training days at Copper and ...

So you're not an adbot?

Those old military Karhu skis only virtue is their very low price, nothing else. The skis are very heavy, and slow.