December 12th, 2009

It's all over! Many thanks to all that came and made it such a great time.               

Here are some pictures from the fest

Headquarters

Festival headquarters will be in the IR room in back of main lodge ( the building where the tram is folks). That's where you will register, buy your festival lift ticket and sign up for clinics. All festival participants must register and purchase the festival ticket (The same price as the regular lift ticket which should be $49). The ticket includes a complimentary beer ticket for adults.

The big question is.."If I already have a lift ticket how do I get a festival ticket?" The answer is...if you have a season's pass or some kind of special ticket or coupon you pay NET $25 and we will mark your ticket or pass. The good news is that that you get a free beer and free raffle ticket.

• Demos- Most of the telemark companies will be represented and you will have a chance to demo the newest gear for free! If you are new to telemark and don't own any gear you might want to rent some gear for the day. The demo reps like to give everyone a chance to try their gear and generally don't want you taking the skis and boots out for more than a few runs. Rentals are available at the mountain ski rental shop and Firsttrax in Montgomery. NET will also have a small amount of gear available to never-evers without gear on a first-come-first-serve basis.. We should have a full size range of Garmont kids boots available to demo.

• Sponsors - At the heart of every great organization there must be a dedicated group of people. Along with our instructors and volunteers are our sponsors. Where would we be without them? They help us out financially but more than that, many of them are right there at the festivals with us, giving the public a chance to try out all the newest and best telemark gear. To them we have dedicated a 'sponsor page' with descriptions of their products and links to their web pages. All our thanks to Garmont, Backcountry Mag, Black Diamond, Garmont, Flylow, Trab, First Trax, TwentyTwo Design and Voile for their support.

• Lessons - Most of our instructors are members of PSIA (Professional Ski Instructors of America) and all are highly trained and motivated. We want our clinics to be fun most of all but to hopefully give you a chance to improve your skiing in an enjoyable, free spirited atmosphere. All clinics are 1 1/2 hours long and are free (with festival lift ticket)! Times will be once in the morning and once in the afternoon. The morning clinics begin at 10:30 and the afternoon clinics 1:30.

Special clinics will include;

• Clinics for all abilities, including 'never-evers'.

• Crossover clinics for alpine skiers coming to Telemark.

••KIDS clinics for the young. We have the gear and the instructor, Grant Braddish. Grant is a dad and has been teaching K-6 graders to ski with the Junior Instructional Ski Program in VT since the 01-02 ski season.

• Women's Clinics. Women teaching women. Some of NET's top women instructors will be leading clinics.

• A telemark clinic taught in Frence for our French speaking Canadian friends. The French Connection": cliniques en français. Natalie et Sébastien offriront des cliniques en français, de niveau débutant à avancé.

• Masters Clinics. Taught by our educational staff including Mickey Stone, Paul Smith and John Tidd, all PSIA examiners, this is the clinic for the master skier.

• Events-Josh Madsen, editor of Telemark skier Magazine will be showing his movie "The Freeheel Life" on Friday (December 11) in the IC room at 5. He will also be showing the movie all day at the festival.

• Prizes/Raffles - Prizes and raffles include products from Flylow, Black Diamond, Garmont, Voile and more.

There will be a Telemarkeast.com raffle TBA

• Tickets -Ticket prices will be announced once Jay knows what their price will be. Be sure to come to our headquarters, upstairs in the main lodge to buy your ticket. Season pass holders must pay an additional $20 for the fest but that can be put towards the gear raffle. The same goes for all special coupons, senior tickets etc. All extra charges can go towards the raffle.

NET and the Vermont Festival are proud to have Shipyard Brewing Company on board as a sponsor!

The Vermont Telemark Festival is brought to you by

All of our sponsors, Jay Peak...and of course

New England Telemark.

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