Head Coach
Program director Ty Upson got his first taste of telemark skiing in New England as a child after watching some hippy rip down the VW Bug sized bumps on “Goat” at Stowe, Vermont in 1976. He has been a closet nordic skier ever since, recently moving to the telemark side from alpine. He attended the Whiteman School as their first ski racer .Ty started coaching at the Univ. of Colorado in 1987 and then returned to the Winter Sports Club. He has been coaching at the FIS, Nor-Am and World Cup level and has worked with numerous NCAA champions, US Ski Teamers and Olympic racers. Along the way he has picked up full certification with the PSIA in both Alpine and Telemark and the same with the US Ski Coaches Association. In his free time, Ty volunteers with Routt county Search and Rescue and the Clark Colorado Volunteer Fire Dept. The Marine Corps added some saltyness to his already intense personality and spending two years in Mesopotamia taking on bad guys did little to tone down his zest and enthusiasm for skiing. Ty is also the proud father of a Tele Devo daughter. He enjoys reading, empty spaces and sea glass collecting. The one thing he loves about telemark racing is the comraderie, sportsmanship and multi-element and long distance nature of the events(as well as getting to go to Europe every year!)

Thomas has been skiing for 60 years of which the last 12 have been telemarking. A former ski instructor with 40 years of experience, he is certified by the Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) in both alpine and telemark.