Mounting Location for Telemark Skis

[mainer]

K2 always recommended pin line on chord center for their tele's. And they all skied (and ski) perfectly for me. However... all my experience has been skiing pre-rockered skis.

Back when there existed skis labeled "tele." I also believe none of those had rocker. The rocker makes a big impact on how skis behave, and on mounting locations.

I saw something about a "progressive tele mount" in some shop manual, maybe the BD ones. I think it amounted to moving the boot back a couple cm from the alpine mount location, which would still be well forward of a pin line on chord center mount. Seems kind of silly, but maybe it works.... I've never tried it.

EDIT: I had that wrong. Progressive tele mount per BD = putting tele boot center on alpine boot center mark. "Classic mount" = tele boot center 25mm back from alpine boot center mark. Still makes a bit more sense than pin line on chord center since it takes into account boot size.

[GLB]

Well the skis are on the way. I have the bindings and will get the t4s soon. I will mock mount them to all the recommendations to see how they line up but will probably lean to the manufactures recondmendation of BC on mark.
I plan to use my Alico double leathers to ski as well ( there goes all that precise measurement)

[phoenix]

Cool. let us know how you like the set up, if you think of it.

[GLB]

Will do. It also comes with the skins made for it and I will report back how it does at the resort as well as BC.
Greg