There wasn’t any good reason for this boot mod, other than I had some boots languishing on the shelf and some spare time, plus, I like Telemark skiing, and why not try to make my ancient tele boots better? Trolling the internet, Googling ideas that pop into my head, usually yields nothing much, but a…
The Boot Mod Nobody Asked For
Nested like a pair of tele boots that were/are meant to be. Revel in the carbon cuff.
Responses
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Where did you source the mounting bracket for the ski walk mechanism?
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Hey Ted, I spliced the entire upper cuff of some Dynafit pdg race boots onto the Garmont tele boot including the ski walk mechanism. The Dynafit system has a hole in the rear of the boot that a nub on the buckle wedges into locking the boot into ski mode when you close the upper buckle. That entire system was grafted onto the tele lower clog.
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