TAY Hall of Fame - online edition

One more...
Jason H and Kyle have contributed several great TRs. This one was a favorite of mine:

www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboardi...24.msg57357#msg57357

The first person I met when after deciding to move to WA and driving cross country solo with very little in the bank and no job was Telemon. He couldn't have been more excited to welcome me and was so fired up that I'd moved out. We met hiking to artists point and skied blueberry chutes together, then said goodbye. A week or two later I read about his accident. I didn't really know him, I hardly even met him, but I think about that interaction all the time and how much of an impact a friendly face can have on someone. I'd love to see a Telemon tribute.

I first met Telemon (Bob Wiebe) on line in 2001 on the old Telemarktips website. A bunch of us telewhackers from Vancouver BC organized a trip to Mount Cain (a North Vancouver Island jewel) for their Telemark Festival in February of that year on Ttips. On the drive up Bob kept us entertained with a non stop stream of stories of trips he'd taken. Over the years we skied together at Whistler, Cypress
Baker, Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams , Rainier. Some of my best ski memories are skiing the volcanos in the late Spring when we would sleep in the back of his Explorer in the parking lots.

RIP Bob

I forgot to mention Mount Cheam, where we bumped into Silas and had a fun day skiing together.

I would probably have been with Telemon on that last trip, but I was in Ontario visiting my daughter and family. I had just got back and heard the news.

The number of people at his memorial ceremony in Fort Langley were a testament to the number of people he knew through Scouts and skiing.

My abiding memory of him is, when we set out on a ski day, he would have this bottle of deep green liquid, which he would chugalug as we drove to the trail head. Apparently, it was a combination of a lot of good stuff for your body, but to me it looked that pond scum