How do you describe telemarking?

Telemarketing is like the band Def Leppard. It was really great like 25 years ago but now it just kind of sucks.

Hey now...  Have you listened to Pyromania lately?

swimming has the butterfly stroke...
skiing has telemark...

If your only parameter to measure your skiing is what gear is the lightest and still generates the most leverage, you'll never know the beauty of how skiing telemark in big powder or a well practiced butterfly stroke feels...

..... but if you want to try it, I would gladly spend some time on the hill with you, so you could understand how far the telemark rabbit hole can go... and how crazy it feels on a big pow day to ski 192cm tele-skis that are 128 underfoot..

Just so you know, a lot of tele skiers, ski AT gear also so they must see something in it besides the "Woohoo, look at me! I telemark! " factor...

Got stuck with a bad crowd early in my development stage and thus, am a tele-head. Though learning new (AT) tricks.

Heard once - "Yea, tele-skiing is a graceful as a square block tumbling down the hill"


At least it's not snowboarding.

At least it's not snowboarding. 

No, but according to my dad, who teles and occasionally slides sideways, it's about as close as you can get

Three most spoken words of tele-heads: "Hey, wait up"

Three most spoken words of boarders: "Uh, sorry dude"

THE TELEMARK DRAG
(to the tune of the Vatican Rag)


First you get down on one knee,
Fiddle with your binding – see
Stem your skis with great respect,
And Genuflect, Genuflect, Genuflect.
When in Stowe*, do like the Stoics,
Flaunt your lycra, look heroic.
Stick some moleskin on your heels,
Plastic boots – how secure the feel.
Fat skis are in, parallel’s a sin,
Knees down so low agin’, dragin’ the snow again
Doin’ the Telemark drag.

Credit:  Ski Trails and Wildlife: Toward Snow Country Restoration
By Eric Burr
*Stowe Mountain Resort in northern Vermont