The Kids are Alright - TR

dobish · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject:

that's awesome! Makes me want to go out and have some kids (or i wished my cousins lived closer, so I could take them out)

about the kids sized binding problem.... i'm pretty sure they make tele gear for kids that size Laughing

awesome TR
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joesnow · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 534 Location: Meyers, CA

morgsarah · Joined: 10 Feb 2005 Posts: 1059 Location: Northern NM

Great TR!

And as far as the kids on Tele, if they want to let em, ask em about it.

I took a moguls tele clinic this year, with me, one lame dude, and 4 awesome Tele kids. They didn't seem to be having any issues, and one of em was only on his second Tele day.

They ripped. Aged 7-11 I'd say.

-Cheers,
Sarah.

robrox · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject:

Yeah, stop by MRG any day in season...Teledactyls and Telesaurus all over the place...some ripping it up some schoozing and everybody smiling Cool

http://www.telemarkski.com/html/rvw_gar01_GB181.html
http://www.telemark-pyrenees.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=1714
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televisionary · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 3996 Location: casa de sueños

Ha, that was great. Don't you just love seeing the little ankle-grabbers get after it? They're having the best time.

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Randonnee · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 7:26 pm Post subject:

Nice

Good demonstration of why I say the worst part of being single is not having kids! Sad

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David Witherspoon · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 7570

Borrow them. From friends or family. Seriously. Parents are overcommitted, by definition.

Every kid should have an irrespons- ... er, an adventurous godfather or uncle to get them out into the outdoors & show them a different view of life now and then.

Best of all - when you get tired of them, you just return them to the owners. Very Happy

newmaph · Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 117 Location: California

Nice TR. I used this thread to show my wife why kids are such a good idea.

geo · Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 6:52 am Post subject:

cool TR - spectacular day.
would be fun to hear the kids respond re: joesnow's snowboard/ ski /tele baseball metaphor. Fora awhile there they don't even notice the diffences - it's all just sliding on snow! But I hear yea. Perhaps AT as the standard so they can get around, then let the little buggers choose.... did you see the home vid of that 12 year old in the Park section, practising rails at home in Maine? It's was epic! Cool

Dobish - dude you need to find a GF and do some lawering first, yes Very Happy

!? Dr. Witherspoon has an excellent devient concept, yet it doesn't seem to work that way does it? Capt'n Irrespons over here thinks that's a great idea -I'm good friends with hellion 3 year old, and his two older brothers.. 2 on alpine and the oldest 10 - using moms's tele gear......oh it's a madhouse!!! Very Happy

bierklick · Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 6 Location: freiburg

there are alpine touringbindings for kids:
http://www.silvretta.de/bindungen.php?chid=16&m=3&sid=82f0a82dacd1de1dc64bdbdf9c225b4c&lang=de&prid=10&ac=det

joesnow · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 534 Location: Meyers, CA

Now that's what I'm talking about! (Thanks bierklick)

After perusing the internet for several minutes, I can not seem to find a source to buy them from. Not available in the U.S. possibly? I'm going to send an e-mail to Silvretta.
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tele mark · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 770

Nice TR! Way to go getting the next generation involved at an early age. Congrats on the 5 yr. date earlier this year too!
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Bonnie · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 6 Location: Boston

I know this was an old thread, but I just found it. We wanted to get our 6 year-old grandson up the hill last year. He was way too small for the smallest tele gear and the only randonee bindings we could find had DIN settings much too high for a kid barely breaking 50 lbs. But he doesn't mind walking in his downhill boots at all. So I bought kids snowshoes, fairly good ones so they have crampons. We carried his skis up in our pack and used our skins on our skis. It worked fine except for the steepest, rockiest terrain. We had a great day even though we never found the ski trail and we all had to ski down a hiking trail! For those of you in the east, this was at Cardigan, so you know that the hiking trails are really narrow hiking trails! This year we have teledactyls ready for him (2 sizes too big, but he doesn't care), just have to figure out which skis to get and we're off!