Skied the KARHU XCD with 75 mm 3pin binding back in the early 80's, with the Scarpa boot with one buckle. My wife and I skied at the Ptarmigan and Boulder Huts in the Purcells in the early 80's with Art TWOMEY and Margie JAMIESON, and the following year did the winter camping trip Art and Margie offered in St.MARY's Alpine Park. John TWEEDY was on that trip also. The video brought back cherished memories of telemark skiing in BC with some wonderful people.

just AWESOME......nicely done ....from an old KAHRU SKIER....THE Finnster........namaste

Our trip was after your trip. I recall Art and Margie speaking of the trip with yourself and your spouse, in addition to previous trips in the area they had done, while lounging around camp in the evenings. St. Mary's Alpine Park is a gem of an area. The last couple of days of the trip was spent at a hot spring. I wish I could recall the name of the drainage / river the hot spring was on. . Do you know the name of the hot spring that I speak of, and can you access that hot spring in the summer months. I've always enjoyed the articles and stories that you authored in Canadian Geograhic. Fair Winds from Nova Scotia.

Hi Pat, it is with pleasure that I have seen this movie that has highlighted some good memories. I worked for 10 years for Karhu in France. I enjoyed with pleasure the first XCD GT, the same with which I started in Telemarker from 1985. But there are also the Asolo and the Berghaus gaiters. There is also John Falkiner, an old friends since the time I lived at the foot of Mont Blanc. This film also brings me back to the time when I knew Antti-Jussi Titola Aka Naku who created the XCD. Naku died there was 2 months ago, I went to his burial at home in Kaivanto, Finland. By the way, what Allen Slade does today, I met him a long time ago at an ISPO fair in Munich. NB The Karhu hat I did not have it anymore, I washed with the machine and because of the heat, he withdrew ...