The Fischer 98's have lots of bite for climbs up forest service roads and green slopes at resorts. Mine are 1st gen. pre-easy-skin. I have a pair of skinny tip-to-tail skins that I sometimes carry with me for steeper ascents, but for the most part I get by without using them. Those skis are good at ...

Cope346, I see you're from Montreal. Beautiful city, we're here right now enjoying the music. Andinista seems as unbiased as a telemarker can be, and I believe he's right on. About 5 years ago I started tele skiing at resorts, Tremblant first, soon followed by Colorado where I now spend a good part ...

That's it, I'm back home in Canada after an amazing ski season in Colorado and Utah. Now on to an equally fantastic paddling season, I hope. Thank you to site administrators for your work in keeping the site going, and to all the contributors who kept the discussion going and helped build an interes...

Yesterday, Brighton on hard pack, today Alta/Snowbird on softer snow. I went in at Alta, and went through the staffed gate at Snowbird to sample the big Basin Bowl at Mt. Baldy. Fisheater, you're right, the terrain is something else. Gorgeous. Great pitch. Variety. The sun warmed up the 1" fresh pow...

Today held some surprises. I left Park City with no solid plan, though I had booked a rental unit in Cottonwood Heights, closer to Salt Lake. I decided to drive past my scheduled late-afternoon booking outside of Salt Lake City and continued up to Solitude (a ski resort) to get a late-morning start ...

An update: I'm made about 6 tele sightings in three days so far at Deer Valley. We got some more snow in dribs and drabs, so conditions improved. It's Saturday, so I'll let the crowds fight it out today and I'll explore a little. About your question, Al, I spend more time down here each subsequent w...

This thread contains much more truth than is healthy for developing fetuses, adolescent boys and girls, and all of their middle-aged and geriatric imitators. And for the ski industry as a whole. Make that the entire outdoor sports industry. And Fashion. And Attitudes. And Culture. And the Economy of...

Gorgeous drive yesterday afternoon and this morning from Steamboat Springs, CO. to Deer Valley, Utah. Breathtaking scenery the entire way along HWY. 40. I skied Deer Valley today. It's enormous. March Break, too, with all that that entails. I've never seen so many instructors and so many individuals...

Went for a BC ski on a favourite 2-hour circle route today adjacent to the Fraser Experimental Forest in Grand County. Bluebird skies, temps between -3 and -6 C. My wife set out to do a trail along the creek on wooden Grasshoppas, and I started out climbing up battered tracks on the well-used unplow...

Thanks to all so far for your insights. Harris, your "badass" tone of 30+ years of tele experience kindled some of the doubt that lingers in my gut at this stage. I'm conscious of how easily and quickly this 4-year-old late-arrival tele-adventure could be interrupted or ended. You've got 30+ years o...