Archive:Tele School 2009

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Date

January 24^th, 2009

Location

Mt. Seymour

Meet at 8:45am inside the Day Lodge

Be there by 9:00 at the latest or organizing groups and tickets will be unnecessarily unpleasant.

If you can't catch a ride, you can get there by taking the 7:30 am Shuttle from Parkgate mall for 5 $ each way.

Costs

Your discounted lift ticket will be $22.00
Your portion of the instructor's lift ticket will be $5.50
This makes your total expense $ 27.50

PAYMENT MUST BE MADE IN ADVANCE IN THE VOC CLUB ROOM (see Dry School)

Gear

You will need functional telemark skis, ski poles, and ski boots. Gear is available to rent from the club room, or from Mountain Equipment Co-op.

MEC prices:
Package (skis, boots, poles): 30$ first day, 20$ extra day or
individually skis: 20 $, boots: 15 $

• call MEC well in advance to reserve gear

Dry School

There will be no formal Dry School for this trip. However, you must pay for your lift ticket in advance. This can be arranged in the club room:

• Wednesday, January 21st, from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

OR

• During regular gear hours before Friday, January 23^rd.

Those who have not paid by Thursday night will be bumped to the bottom of the waiting list.

Learning Material

See Tele School#Learning Material

Sign-up

Instructor Sign-up

We will try and maintain a student to instructor ratio of 4:1 (minimize cost to students while keeping small group sizes). Instructors will be selected as student numbers require in order of sign-up. Instructors: please indicate an appropriate skier ability for your group.

1. Kjetil Birkeland Moe (intermediate - advanced. Carving, short turns, technique)
   
2. Øyvind Reimers (intermediate - advanced)
   
3. Richard So (beginner-ish, Level 1-3)
   
4. Line V (survival - beginner, 1-3 in Craig's model)
5. Veenstra (survival - intermediate)
6. Melissa Hogg (beginner - advanced)
7. Craig Alfredson (beginner - advanced)
8. Steve Mullen (beginner - intermediate)
9. Devon Carr ("Tele-what?" - "I survived an epic to brew" - "I wanna score a hot VOCer on my next backcountry trip")

Students

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- If there is a shortage of instructors, students at the bottom of the list will be bumped onto the waiting list.

- State how experienced you are/what you want to work on next to your name to make sorting groups easier.

Levels

1. - Has never skied -> learn to snowplow
2. - Has downhill skiing experience / can do snowplow turns -> learn do to stem turns
3. - Has some Telemark experience - can do stem turns -> learn to parallel
4. - Can Telemark reliably enough on green/blue runs - can do parallel turns -> improve weight transfer, timing, stance
5. - Can do strong Telemark turns - work on bumps, powder, etc.
   

Beginner

Level One (never skied, or at least not recently)

Group A - Line Veenstra

1. Kaan E.(never skied, but did snowblade several times)
   
2. Jasmine McEachern
3. Maki Sumitani (have learned to ski downhill but haven't gone for a long time. I am terrible at moving on flat surfaces with skis.)
4. Charlotte Olofsson (haven't skied in a few years)

---Please sign up on the wait list---

Level Two (has downhill skiing experience)

Group B -

1. Merick Moritz (I used to down hill ski when I was a kid and I occasionally cross-country ski classic. However, I snowboard and can ride switch which apparently should help)
2. Karolina Hanula (many years of downhill skiing and snowboarding experience)
3. Eric Deal (some downhill skiing experience.)
4. Sarah Stepec (many years of downhill skiing experience but it's been a while)

Group C -

1. Lisa Erdal (12 yrs downhill/cross country experience)
2. Paolo Baldrachi (a lot of downhill)
   
3. Len Goff, Level 2. I have some 150 skiis and would love to trade if someone has 160s and wants something shorter.
4. Maya Kurokawa, Level 2. I want to telemark!

Group D - Christian Veenstra

1. Geoff Dunbrack, Level 2
2. Ignacio R. Level 2. Decent downhiller, some telemark experience
3. Eliza Boyce (a fair bit of downhill but not actually very good, tele skied once)
4. Joanna (started last year, haven't been out yet this year - horrible really)

--- Please sign up on the wait list ---

Intermediate

Level Three (has some, but limited, telemark experience)

Group E -

1. Laura C - have the occasional nice tele turn but am lacking any real technique and often am a tele-poser (and parallel turn on my teles)
2. Breanne Johnson - level 3 as per the skill listing on the discussion board
3. Kate Robinson - level 3 as per the skill listing on the discussion board
4. Agathe - Good alpine experience and learning tele since last year.

Group F -

1. Champagne - level 3 as per the skill listing on the discussion board
2. Mahdi Eynian (I can only have a perfect tele pose at low speeds)
3. Greta Raymant (can tele on mellow slopes but switch to survival skiing on steeper stuff)
4. Shannon McCune Dickerson (level 3-4) (I have a van and can take five people from UBC)

---please sign up on the wait list---

Advanced

Level Four / Five (I can tele somewhat reliably, but I want to do better)

Group G (Level 4)- Kjetil Birkeland Moe

1. Will Whitty (I can do crappy turns that resemble tele. Level 3-4 as per discussion board.)
2. Scott Webster (Level 4 as per Scott N's description)
3. Bob Lai (level 4)
4. Rozzy Pedder (level 4)

Group H (Level 4.5)- Øyvind Reimers (oyvireim@stud.ntnu.no)

1. Emily Beach (this is a Muffin-proxy sign up. Em can fill in her details later...)(4ish)
2. Evan Morris (I can pretend to tele. About Level 4-5? Want to learn proper stance, bumps, quick turns)
3. Ben SP (Level 4.5)
4. Frances Sharpe (4ish, want to work on 5 stuff :P)

Group I (Level 4/5)-

1. Emily Ackroyd (Level 4? can do tele turns, looking to improve my technique!)
2. Jeff Ferguson (Level 4/Advanced. Can drive if a spot opens up)
   
3. Maria Markov (level 4/5)
   
4. Shahbaz Tabyanian (Alum) Level 4/5 (not much powder experience but other wise confident, want to learn to use poles properly)shahbaz.tabyanian@gmail.com ph - 604 916 7828
   

(I have an extra pair of skis 178 cm, g3 bindings if anybody would like to borrow them)

---Please sign up on the wait list---

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Rides

Please indicate here if you have a car, where you are leaving from and how many people you can transport. Be sure to include a phone number, at which you can be reached by your passengers.

Driver's Name [Leaving from,# of passengers, phone number]

Craig Alfredson [leaving from Lonsdale Quay seabus station, 3 passengers]

1. Kaan E. (prefer a ride from Kits, can give up this spot for a North Van resident)
   
2. Len Goff (same as Kaan)
3. Joanna

Veenstra mobile [leaving from Dunbar, 4 passengers]

1. Line
2. Agathe (8th and St-George)
3. Lisa Erdal
4. Paolo B

Melissa Hogg [leaving from Broadway & Fraser, 3 passengers, 604-202-9414, mahogg@gmail.com]

1. Richard So
2. Steve Mullen
3. Emily Beach

Eliza Boyce [leaving from East Van, 3 passengers w skis, 778-928-3764, ejunkzaATgmail.com]

1. emily ackroyd
2. Ben Singleton-Polster
3. Frances Sharpe

Scott W.'s Car [leaving from 19th and Oak, 2 passengers, 3 if squishy]

1. Bob L (might be able to drive if we're short of cars) - switched with Bob due to pick-up locations
2. Karolina Hanula (Princess and Gerogia)
3. Ignacio squishy Rozada

Evan Morris [leaving from Alma and Broadway, 4 passengers]

1. Greta Rrrr
2. Champagne
3. Laura C - switched with Bob due to pick-up locations, hope this is okay!
4. Maya Kurokawa

Roland Burton [leaving from UBC, 4 passengers]

1. Maki Sumitani
2. Kate Robinson
3. Breanne Johnson
4. Mahdi

Will Whitty [Leaving from UBC, 3 passengers, or 4 if everyone has a ski bag and doesn't mind skis resting over their shoulders]

1. Sarah Stepec (Fairview Crescent Res.)
2. Øyvind Reimers (UBC)
3. Kjetil B. Moe (Fairview Cresc.)

Carless People

For people that don't have a car.

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1. Agathe (8th and St-George)
2. Charlotte Olofsson (UBC)
3. Rozzy Pedder (UBC)

If you can't get a ride, you can get there by talking the Shuttle for $5 each way, but catch the early one or you'll waste a lot of time chasing your group.

Contact

If you have any questions, suggestions or problems, please contact:

Karolina Hanula
karolina.hanula@gmail.com
604 418 2231