Telemark skiing: Free your heel free you mind!
- Leaders
- Ben Eck (A coC S), Nathalie Verlinde (coB coS)
- Program
- Winter (outside IAP)
- Type
- Resort skiing
- Terrain level
- A
- Trip date
- Saturday, February 14th
- Difficulty rating
- Easy
- Prerequisites
- Able to ski blues comfortably on standard alpine skis
Do you have some downhill ski experience and look for a new challenge? Ever thought of trying telemark skiing? Telemark skiing is a type of skiing where only your toes are connected and your heel is free. You have a slightly lower stance and skiing feels more fluid.
Come join us this Saturday at Veterans Memorial Ski Area, to learn the basics of telemark skiing! Be ready to have fun falling, burning our thighs, and eventually falling in love with this new way of skiing (or at least make it down the slope safely)! They don't open until 1, so we'll get a nice leisurely start from MIT at 10, go over some basic tele skills on flat ground, and then ride lifts to practice until dark (~430-5) before heading back to Boston.
While skiing the Vets is free every weekend this year, we are requesting folks make a $10-20 suggested donation.
The required pretrip meeting will be Thursday 2/12 at 8PM in the MITOC office. We will be renting gear and going over the trip.
Free the heel, and your mind will follow!
Signup
- Algorithm
- first-come, first-serve
- Maximum participants
- 5
- Signups opened at
- Feb. 11, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
- Signups close at
- Feb. 12, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
- Notes
- What is your downhill skiing experience?
- What is your telemark skiing experience?
- Do you need to rent MITOC gear (we have a fleet of telemark skis and boots)?
- What is your mantra for getting back up every time we fall?