Telemark Skiing

My daughter Jen, who is an ultra runner, said she would be interested in skiing uphill. I told her that if we skied up we had to ski down. So we decided that we needed to learn to telemark. We outfitted ourselves with used Telemark gear. We got Monarch Mountain uphill passes…

We signed up for a Friday Tele Clinic in January and then headed up the North Cottonwood Creek road to try out our skins…

Then we attended the Monarch Tele FESTIVUS so we could catch the tele vibe 😉

We’ve been practicing, trading off between Alpine (thats what Tele skiers call downhill skiing) and Tele.

And just for fun, here is the amazing Eleanor who at almost 4 has started skiing this year!

10/01/2019 Canyons of the Ancients National Monument

We left Mesa Verde and headed over to Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. Outside the monument visitor center we visited Dominquez Pueblo and Escalante Pueblo. Then headed north to Lowry Pueblo and west to our destination, Hovenweep National Monument, where we hoped to get a campsite. Hovenweep has dispersed camping but we lucked out and got a site in the small campground on the canyon edge.

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Sleeping Ute Mountain
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McPhee Reservior near Dolores CO

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Escalante Pueblo

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Our campsite and Hovenweep National Monument

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