Editor’s Note: The fact that several people are tinkering on their own with the TTS concept verifies two things. First, that tele is far from dead. Secondly, that the future of further progress in the telemark world will be found where the grass roots energy is flowering in spite of the lack of commercial development. [...]
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Technique: Modifying TTS Heel Post
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The original Telemark Tech System binding was a bit crude but was close enough to yield a glimpse of what the future of telemark bindings might provide. Mark Lengel, the inventor of the system admits that the binding is effectively still a beta binding, but the current incarnation is vastly improved over the first prototype. [...]
TR: Mt. Shasta via Brewer Creek
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The highlight of the trip though was Emily. Not because she’s young, vivacious, and full of energy, which she is, but because she had consciously chosen to embrace ski mountaineering with a free heel. As she said in her classic Ernie voice, “it just made more sense, it looked more like what I wanted to do, what I was coming from with snowboarding.”
Review: Telemark Tech System (ver. 2.0)
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If you’ve been waiting for TTS to grow up a bit, it has. The chubby cable posts and ill fitting heel posts are more slender, functional, and adaptable. Equally importantly the heel lever got the nose job it needed to snap onto the heel step of any compatible boot. Weight matters. Power matters. Why carry more than you need to?
Posted in Dostie, Craig, Telemark Bindings, Wasatch Ski Dist 
Tags: dynafit, Tech system, tele-lite, TTS 
22 Comments »Dynafit goes bi-sensual! Can you believe it?
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You won’t believe it! The concept behind Mark Lengel’s Telemark Tech System binding is so simple it’s a wonder no one tried it before. Perhaps there was a quack or two out there who did and didn’t even believe it themselves, or they thought no one else would, so they abandoned it (after all, they’re [...]
Posted in Dostie, Craig, G3, Ramblings, Telemark Bindings, Wasatch Ski Dist Tags: faith, light tele, tele-resistance, telemark tech system, TTS 22 Comments »Review: Verdict on Telemark Tech System
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Some may pooh-pooh this as being a fringe element of telemark skiing. Indeed it is. But the future is determined by those who push to redefine boundaries, not those who accept what is.
Posted in Dostie, Craig, Telemark Bindings, Wasatch Ski Dist Tags: NTN, telemark tech system, TTS 11 Comments »Ball of Foot Pressure in a Deep Telemark Turn?
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I stand in my workshop hacksaw in hand, old tele boots strewn about the floor. A pair of old gara’s sit on the work bench surrounded by plastic shavings with a freshly cut gash through the bellows. Am I a deranged AT skier acting out every Tele skiers worst nightmare? Of course not, I’m a [...]
Review: Day 2 on TTS beta binding
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Dynafit is not just the binding platform of choice for ski mountaineers with locked heels, but those with a tele-style free heel too.
Posted in Dostie, Craig, Telemark Bindings, Wasatch Ski Dist Tags: Dynafit toe, Tech system, TTS 8 Comments »Review: Day 1 with TTS beta binding
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The TTS binding uses a Dynafit (aka Tech) toe with a classic telemark cable with compression spring cartridges that latches around the heel of the boot. It only works with NTN boots that have Tech fittings.
Tahoe conditions & TTS tease
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Spring has spring here in the Sierra. It’s full on corn season and finally, today, the sun came out and the wind died.
