The Skippy Report

Welcome to the first official episode of The Skippy Report's "Women in Telemark Skiing". In this episode I talk with Jasmin Taylor about how she got into skiing, then Telemark , Telemark racing on the World's stage, and finally, after putting all the hard work, becoming the World Champion she had always wanted to be.

During this episode I speak with Rory MacLeod and Tom Baleshta of Northshore Telemark, North Vancouver, BC, Canada. We talk about who each of them are and their experiences with Telemark and most importantly their involvement with Northshore Telemark, and how they are doing so many things right to grow our sport. Enjoy!

Amy Butler is a Vermont based published Outdoor Educator and hard charging Telemark Skier.  Amy's Book, Educating Children Outdoors, is an educator's resource with the rationale for bringing nature-based curriculum to your school and classroom no matter if you are in a rural or urban setting. The book has activities spread across five seasonal units with 25 lesson plans. Oh yeah, we also talk about the Zen/Chi of Telemark Skiing. Enjoy!

During this episode Skippy delves into the transition from alpine skier to telemark skier to telemark ski journalist with Jack O'Brien. Show Jack some love and check out the link to his column on Powder.com

Welcome to The Tele Dribble (powder.com)

This episode's guests are Jenn and Brian Cook, owners of Kingdom Brewing in Newport, Vermont. They graciously host me and Missus Skippy in the taproom of their brew house, where we talk about Brian's backstory and how he went from a travelling sales rep for his family's Snowcat business to brewery owner. We also talk; beer making, scaling up their beer production, becoming music bookies, wood fired pizza chefs, food smoking, and how covid actually helped them, in a way.  All the things that weren't in the Brewery Handbook.  It is important for you to know, how important it is to them that they know where all of their ingredients come from and that everything is Vermont made!  As they say, "You bet your Ass it's farm to glass".

This episode's guest is Rajkeshwar Tulsie, a new Canadian, sort of. This is the story of his journey from South America to Canada's Pacific Northwest and making his way to enjoying Winter life on Telemark skis.

Wow, imagine being outside in the winter time and doing an oil painting at a ski resort? Well, during this episode, you will meet Carrie Pill, an artist who resides in Southern Vermont. Carrie just completed a project with Ski Vermont and Stio to paint 20 of Vermont's ski resorts. We discuss this project , Carrie's back story, and of course, skiing, Enjoy!

In this episode Skippy talks with Patrick Hummel, Supervisor of Mount Washington State Park, about Mount Washington, his cool job, and his commute to his office at 6288 feet above sea level. Enjoy!

Skippy talks with good friend Marc Godbout about his love for the outdoors and where he developed this love.  We also talk about his adventures and accomplishments in whitewater canoeing and kayaking, along with a newer sport to Marc, para-gliding. ...And yes we did manage to squeeze a bit of Telemark skiing in the discussion, also.

Josh and I sit down to catch up for a bit then we delve into things Telemark and Freeheel Life.