Archive:Tele School 2009

	Old Trip
	This is the sign up and organization page for an old trip. It already happened. Please do not sign up for it.

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

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

TBA

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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	This is the sign up and organization page for an old trip. It already happened on 24-01-2009. Please do not sign up for it.

- Please keep in mind that if there is a shortage of instructors, students at the bottom of the list will be bumped onto the waiting list.

- It might be a good idea to 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 parallel turns - work on bumps, powder, etc.
   

Beginner

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

1. Kaan E.(never skied, but did snowblade several times)
   
2. Jill Kennedy (Have skiied before, a long time ago. Tried last weekend and failed miserably! Can snowplow I guess! :-) Should I be in the other group?
3. Jasmine McEachern (I snowboard and have skied once in the last... 14 years?! Crap Im old...)
4. 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.)
5. Reilly Wood (haven't skied in a few years)
6. Chantelle Chan (Did a season of downhill 8? years ago. Failed miserably at it. Can x-country somewhat. Love snowboarding. Can snowplow.)
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---Please sign up on the wait list after the eighth spot is filled---

Level Two (has downhill skiing experience)

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. Joanna (started last year, haven't been out yet this year - horrible really)
3. Karolina Hanula (many years of downhill skiing and snowboarding experience)
4. Eric Deal (some downhill skiing experience.)
5. Sarah Stepec (many years of downhill skiing experience but it's been a while)
6. Lisa Erdal (12 yrs downhill/cross country experience)
7. Eliza Boyce (a fair bit of downhill but not actually very good, tele skied once)
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--- Please sign up on the wait list after the eighth spot is filled

Intermediate

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

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.
5. Champagne - level 3 as per the skill listing on the discussion board
6. Eric Escobar (Started last year, still quite bad with tele, but improving slowly)
7. Mahdi Eynian (I can only have a perfect tele pose at low speeds)
8. Greta Raymant (can tele on mellow slopes but switch to survival skiing on steeper stuff)

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

Advanced

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

1. Will Whitty (I can do crappy turns that resemble tele. Level 3-4 as per discussion board.)
2. Evan Morris (I can pretend to tele. About Level 4? Want to learn proper stance, bumps, quick turns. If really stuck for beginner teachers I could teach)
3. Scott Webster (Level 4 as per Scott N's description)
4. Emily Beach (this is a Muffin-proxy sign up. Em can fill in her details later...)(?)
5. Ben SP (Level 4 or 5)
6. Frances Sharpe (4ish, want to work on 5 stuff :P)
7. Bob Lai - (level 4, 5 on a good day as per Craig's description)
8. Emily Ackroyd (Level 4? can do tele turns, looking to improve my technique!)

---Please sign up on the wait list after the eighth spot is filled---

Wait List (if all the spots above are filled, sign up on the wait list and groups will be formed as more instructors sign up)

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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. Richard So
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Carless People

For people that don't have a car.

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1. Kaan E. (4th @ Blenheim)
   
2. Jill Kennedy (Dunbar and 22nd)
3. Breanne Johnson (UBC)
4. Kate Robinson (UBC)
5. Karolina Hanula (Main + Hastings)
6. Agathe (8th and St-George)
7. Sarah Stepec (UBC)
8. Lisa Erdal (Dunbar and 41st)
9. Emily Ackroyd (Victoria & Kitchener)

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.