I appreciate all the replies. I will take the advice and buy new boots. My skiing partners are pressuring me not to be a liability on long trips.

I have a pair of Rossi BC X6 boots, and there is a tear where the duckbill meets the toe. Any advice on how to fix? And also - when this fails, will it fail catastrophically or can I just run them into the ground until they die, and assume that I’ll be able to ski back home when they implode? ppb94O...

Awesome responses everyone. Wow. Thank you. Except the random fight that broke out. I didn’t think anyone would actually answer, so I gave it a while before I logged back in. After posting, I purchased Allen and Mike’s telemark tips, and their “patience turn” tip really explained it for me. -You jus...

Hi, I'm new to telemark but have been alpine skiing for a long time. I'm confused about when the lead change happens. I've been looking at this awesome resource https://www.qgdigitalpublishing.com/publication/?m=58719&i=551749&p=30&ver=html5 In the diagram I screen shotted from the ^ resource, I dre...