Stop skin track mutilation !

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We need more rules and restrictions in the National Forest.  Probably could designate certain drainages or areas as telemark only, as we are the purist elite of the snow sliding sliding world.  We can sit up on the heights and proclaim all the rest of us whankers when we choose to use the fixed heel or snowboards, or GOD FORBID, THE DREADED SNOWSHOE.  AT skiers need their own designated areas because our turns are too pretty and tight for the rest of you.  Snowboarders need to be in their own area so we can sit on our asses in the snow and smoke cigarettes and bong hits.  Or, we could realize that many of us have chosen (not me, actually) to live in an urban area with thousands of backcountry users and need to do a little extra work to find the places where there there are no unsightly uptracks left by others.  In the meantime, I volunteer to be the backcountry cop and wag my finger at the skintrack desecrators.  After I'm beaten with a ski pole, maybe I'll wonder what I was so concerned about.    
-Bill  

It  never ceases to amaze me how tribal humans are. We all break into out liitle groups of telemarkers, or AT, or snowboard or snowshoers and each group ,to varying degrees, feel superior or somehow more entiltled to  use the backcountry resource than the other.( I am guilty of this aswell )

I think Billk's ironic post hits it on the nail. I personally escape to the mountains for the freedom it gives. I live in an area where there are a lot of people. If I am going to a well used area then I am going to have to tolerate snowshoe holes in my skin track and other users.

If I want to be alone and have unsullied skin tracks and have the place to myself, then I go to and area that is more difficult to access and there is a whole lot of those areas in this State if you put in the effort. Please no more backcountry cops or well meaning preachers and remember the backcountry has been officialy designated a " Whine Free Zone".

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I was wondering what most telemarkers do when they see an untouched snowshoe track? When I am in the backcountry I will not walk on a skintrack unless it has been trampled by previous snowshoers and turned into a well packed trail. I know a lot of snowshoers are not this respectfull, but this to me does not justify the attitude I have encountered from some telemarkers even when I am being respectfull.

snowshoes not much of a problem. Postholers and dogs big problem. I'd rather have snowshowers in my skin tracks than to have them running down a nice powder slope 4 abreast. I 've had that happen many times.