I'm not positive, George, but I believe these are unique from the subcategory of "alpine touring" skis, referring to themselves as skishoes or specifically Altai, which appears to be a subcategory of one at the moment. Grin.
With abandon, Patrick On Sunday, December 22, 2019 at 7:06:28 PM UTC-7, George Schick wrote: > > Yes, a friend and former co-worker of mine with whom I used to enjoy > "cross-country" skiing (not the same a telemarking, of course) here in the > Midwest who moved to the Whitefish MT area several decades ago has since > informed me that the entire telemarking tradition has since been replaced > by "Alpine touring" skis, the ones which you reference. Looks like a good > innovation and I'm glad you found out about it. > > > On Sunday, December 22, 2019 at 10:17:13 AM UTC-6, Deacon Patrick wrote: >> >> Attempt to show this is on topic that only does the opposite: I'm >> puzzling out how these might play with me brain so I can strap them to >> Shadowfax, me fixed gear Hunqapillar, ride to the trailhead after a >> delightful deep snow and enjoy skiing with delightful, controlled descents). >> >> https://altaiskis.com/ >> >> My biggest gripes with backcountry telemark skis back in the 80's and >> 90's was they were too long for skiing trails, too narrow for powder, >> especially breaking trail, required the donning and doffing of skins, >> required proprietary boots that never fit (even worse now I'm >> barefoot/minimalist). In barefoot circles the skis and style of skiing by >> the good folks in the Altai mountains of Asia knew how to do this right and >> proper, and I lamented twelve years ago there were no such skis now. Well, >> there are, now, as of four years ago. Grin. Kind of the rivendell of skiing. >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> www.MindYourHeadCoop.org >> www.CatholicHalos.org >> www.DeaconPatrick.org >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/5a655f49-0600-4702-89b2-0373c4d89625%40googlegroups.com.
