What I feel

This video is a short clip of what it feels like for me to Telemark ski.



For those of you (if any are out there) who don't know what Telemark skiing is, maybe I can explain. It is very similar to regular skiing (called Alpine skiing), but your heels are not attached to any binding. As you can tell from the video, the turns involve dropping your uphill knee. This technique creates or imitates the turn of one ski instead of two. This allows for sharper turns. A benefit to Telemark skiing is the capability to slap on skins (sticky cloth with directional surface with friction like teeth, similar to sailboat cleats) to the bottom of the skis making skiers able to climb up the faces of mountains without sliding backwards, very much like cross-country skis. This capability opens up multitudes of backcountry terrain. The only negative to Telemark skiing of course is that you are constantly doing a squat every turn. I personally enjoy THE BURN and sensation of hot turns.

Solilochairliftquist

This video won some category award at the Banff Film Festival. It is Legend-wait for it, wait for it... ... ... Dary!

In the beginning...

Well I told myself I would never create a blog, but I guess it was inevitable. I always thought of a blog as a place to cry about stupid common life problems such as "While sitting alone at the computer like I always do it really made me think bla bla bla bla..." and so on and so forth. Well I created this for people to know what I am up to during these days of information and technology, not that anybody is interested, but it does help one's self esteem.

So without further ado I will make a new blog updating everybody of my very current-current events.