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Salomon telemark skis
Does anone know if Salomon makes a ski for telemarking?
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[ Bob Lee ]
wrote: Does anone know if Salomon makes a ski for telemarking? There are a few special telemark models out there (mostly softer versions of an alpine model), but these days most people tele on normal alpine skis. The Salomon X-Scream series seems to be a long-time favorite for in-bounds tele; I love my Teneightys for offpiste, and a friend has had lots of fun on his Pocket Rockets (although he's since turned to the dark side and mounted them with AT). I've never seen a special tele model from Salomon, but I don't really see any reason to go looking for one. Most softer alpine skis should work well for tele. You could tele on just about any ski that Solomon (or any other manufacturer) makes. That said, a lot of people tele on the Pocket Rocket. Other than the issue of putting skins on a twin-tip model, it makes a good backcountry ski. It's not that much of a problem, really. My friend's biggest problem with skins on the Pocket Rockets was the wide, rounded front tip, not the back tip. Martin -- "An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader." -Paul Graham, On Lisp |
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Martin Thornquist wrote:
There are a few special telemark models out there (mostly softer versions of an alpine model), but these days most people tele on normal alpine skis. The Salomon X-Scream series seems to be a long-time favorite for in-bounds tele; I love my Teneightys for offpiste, and a friend has had lots of fun on his Pocket Rockets Wot Martin said... I have a set of X-Free-8s with Rivas on, a pal skis X-Screams and 10-80s with tele bindings and has toured free heel and tele-d on X-Mountains. His comment on the X-Screams is you need to be reasonably good to work them well, but as long as you are then you reap the rewards. My X-Free-8s don't tele as neatly as my Tua Heliums, but they carve parallels and reverse tels considerably better. Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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