Scott Sports to add tech inserts to Voodoo Telemark Boot
Yup, that’s a Scott Voodoo clamped to a Meidjo with tech inserts in the toe. There has been a lot of telemark binding development to work with NTN boots lately, especially those incorporating a 2-pin tech toe in the design. Sadly, the news on the boot side of the equation...
Telemark Boot Inserts: Weak link of 2-pin Tech System
Staying connected when you want with a 2-pin tech system requires tight tolerances – especially with the boot insert. What started out as a simple test of the Meidjo, a telemark binding with a 2-pin toe and NTN clamp, turned into an investigation of tech toe inserts and what...
Telemark Ski Gear for Newbies
A hard turn is good to find.Photo by Halsted Morris. There’s a really good chance you’ll think of my advice on picking gear for telemarking as just another died in the wool leatherneck recommending old-fashioned values just because that’s the way he did it. You’d be right, except that everyone...
Outlaw NTN Telemark Binding Updates for 2016
22D’s Outlaw. Break the rules. As a beta binding you expect some failures. Even when manufacturers don’t acknowledge it, like with first year bindings, it isn’t realistic to expect no problems. It’s worth repeating, 22 Design’s transparency with beta status deserves a medal. With any luck, that medal will be...
First Look: Moonlight’s Tele Tech Bindings
by Craig Dostie Pure Tele binding includes a heel stabilizer. Interest in telemark bindings with a tech toe gained more advocates last week as fourteen writers and photographers from around the world tested beta versions of Moonlight Mountain Gear’s new telemark tech binding. Conceptually there is nothing new with...
The Telemark Lurk
The Lurk Myth by Josh Madsen The lurk, or single large pole, probably isn’t what you think it is when it comes to telemark history. According to Tarjei Gjelstad, a traditional ski maker and telemark historian, “Skiers from Morgedal and Telemark only use a short pole, unlike the lurk, because...
Telemark Ski Fitness: Leg Endurance and Balance
by Jeff Eckhouse // Photos by Kjell Ellefson // Modeling by Athena Brownson There are a lot of weekend warriors who dream of snow and check weather reports at lunch. If that sounds like you, harness your excitement and try this exercise in the break room. This month, we’re focusing...
Top 3 Telemark Colleges
by Tony Gill // photos by Kjell Ellefson Everybody knows what college is really all about: meeting the coeds, partying and, perhaps most importantly, getting a serious shreducation. The fine academic institutions listed here will ensure you get out on the slopes as much as possible. Just be sure you...
The Uphill Battle
How a Suburban Couple Relaxes on the Weekend by Alessandra Bianchi It is 10 degrees and blowing a 30-mile per-hour northeast gale and I am staring at my husband’s butt. Not a full moon, just a discreet sliver of cheek on his upper right thigh—where his Calvin Klein tightie whities...
The U.P. Triangle
Connecting The Three Tele Hot Spots In The Midwest by JT Robinson For people outside of the Midwest, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan might not be the first place you think of when you want to take a ski trip. But with tons of snow every winter, there’s an interesting...
Pin-Up | Paul Kimbrough
How Paul Kimbrough, the son of an avalanche forecaster, became the Telemark World Champion It’s April in Alaska and Paul Kimbrough is dropping into the biggest line of his life, a narrow, diagonal couloir hanging like a piece of thread above a 300-foot high cliff band. If he makes one mistake or gets caught...
Dealing with Frostbite
One telemarker finds out the hard way how to treat frostbite in the backcountry by Megan Michelson Last April, Paige Brady, fresh off her victory at the 2010 Telemark Freeskiing World Championships at Alyeska, Alaska, flew into the Hayes Glacier in Alaska’s Tordrillo Mountains. She went with a couple of...
Moregedal, Norway: Telemark Mecca
“M-O-R-G-E-D-A-L,” I repeat as if I were teaching a young child a new word. The Norwegian girl behind the ticket window looks perplexed. It isn’t that I’m pronouncing the name wrong; she simply doesn’t know where Morgedal is. I try not to show any signs of distress, but in all...
Wall to Wall — Telemarking Steep Couloirs
Four Tips on how to Punch it in Steep Couloirs on Telemark Skis by Weston Deutschlander Shaun Raskin in the La Sal Mountains, UT | photo: Ross Downward Telemark steep skiing is a blast. It’s challenging, exhilarating, dangerous, and nothing beats the feeling of accomplishment when looking back up...
Day to Die | KARHU Calls It Quits
Legendary Ski Maker Karhu Is No More.by John Dostal [caption id="attachment_2015" align="aligncenter" width="640"]XCD: Cross Country Downhill. Karhu Skis 1978-2010. | photo: Simon Peterson[/caption] “What’s the Sioux word for ‘Day to Die?’” Tom Carter bellowed as he walked through the front door of his renovated miner’s cabin in a hamlet of...
Live Free or Die | Telemark Skiing in New Hampshire
4 New Hampshire Gems To Uncover This Season by Holly Crimmins Once you get to this rest stop all bets are off. State Liquor Store the letters read, and in smaller letters, State Safety Rest Area. On winter mornings, the pilgrims traveling north-bound are skiers. Young men pull...
Pin-Up | Ty Dayberry
by Joe Penacoli He’s been around long enough that when he picked up freeheel skiing at age 10 he wore leathers and used flip-flop cable bindings. As the equipment progressed, so did Ty Dayberry and for the better part of the last decade, Ty has been leading the forefront of the younger...
A Shot of Wobbly Knee
4 Easy Steps To Making Better Telemark Turns in Bigger Terrain by Eric Hendersen | illustrations by Scott Howard A telemarker walks into a bar after a bell-to-bell day. The bartender quickly yells, ”I suppose you want a Wobbly Knee.” The telemarker shrugs and responds with a smirk, “Do I have a choice?” The truth of the...
Love The Hurt
Padding the Turn by Rob Bohn There’s no padding the truth: Telemarking hurts. It hurts knees and ankles; it hurts toes and hips; and it bruises egos. I fell into tele—metaphorically and literally. I didn’t get downhill. Keep centered and forward; stay out of the backseat; it made no sense....