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:

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

OR during regular gear hours before Friday, January 23rd.

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 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 (position pending - membership renewal)
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. Charlotte Olofsson (haven't skied in a few years)
6. David Redpath (some nordic and downhill years ago, Snowboard.)
7. James Painter, Level 0 (Never skied in my life)
8. 
   

---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)(position pending - membership renewal)
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)
8. Paolo Baldrachi (a lot of downhill)
   

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

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. Mahdi Eynian (I can only have a perfect tele pose at low speeds)
7. Greta Raymant (can tele on mellow slopes but switch to survival skiing on steeper stuff)
8. 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)

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---

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) (right now we have space for one more instructor group, so don't be shy)

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1. Len Goff, Level 2. (Lots of downhill experience, and some cross-country. Never tried telemarking though.)
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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. 
   
2. 
   
3. 
   

Veenstra mobile [leaving from Dunbar, 4 passengers]

1. Line
2. Jill Kennedy
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 (Main and Hastings) - I can get downtown, or to Cambie - if both of these are too far out of your way just bump me off the list.
3. squishy

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

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

Roland Burton [leaving from UBC, 4 passengers]

1. Jeff Burton
2. Maki Sumitani
3. Kate Robinson
4. Breanne Johnson

Carless People

For people that don't have a car.

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1. Kaan E. (4th @ Blenheim)
   
2. Karolina Hanula (Main + Hastings)
3. Agathe (8th and St-George)
4. Sarah Stepec (UBC)
5. Charlotte Olofsson (UBC)
6. Øyvind Reimers (UBC)
7. Kjetil B. Moe (UBC)
8. Joanna Kolakowska (10th @ Kingsway)

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