Total telemarking gal.
Still working on the "new" products for the Vintage Ski World online store. Amused today while scanning store promo shots from classic book Total Telemarking. Inside, none other than famed star of early hot dog freestyle skiing and well known telemark gal of the 1970s and 1980s, Penelope Street, enjoying some backcountry skiing spring corn snow near Crested Butte, and working on her tan — The book is chock full of other amusing photos, including bearded backcountry skiing maniacs from the Crested Butte tele revival crowd, and lots of racing photos from the infant days of telemark gate competition — when skis were skinny and so were the skiers — or something like that.
WildSnow.com publisher emeritus and founder Lou (Louis Dawson) has a 50+ years career in climbing, backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering. He was the first person in history to ski down all 54 Colorado 14,000-foot peaks, has authored numerous books about about backcountry skiing, and has skied from the summit of Denali in Alaska, North America’s highest mountain.
