This past weekend the top big mountain telemark skiers arrived at Grand Targhee Resort in Alta, Wyoming for the 2018 Freeheel Life Cup. This premiere telemark big mountain event allows tele skiers to test their knee-dropping skills against the best from around the globe. The field had competitors from Sweden, France, the United States and...
Tele Moose Goes Down in France
Les Contamines, France: Val Montjoie Telemark. Antione Bouvier, a well-decorated former member of the French Telemark Team took it upon himself this season to get more French youth involved in telemark skiing. The town of Les Contamines fosters Olympic and World Cup athletes and supports them with banners and flyers throughout the town. In his...
New Scarpa NTN boots: “…we are working on it.”
It was a year ago that Scarpa said they would be working on new boots for the tele tribe. Then silence. There were hopeful promises of prototypes “this spring” but that was last spring. At the recent Outdoor Retailer trade show, the annual show of ski candy, Kim Miller went on record with Doug Schnizspahn,...
Fourth Annual World Telemark Day – March 3, 2018
#SPREADTELEMARK The hashtag we have all come to know and love on social media again has its day; a day to celebrate the art of telemark and what it stands for, a day where the telemark family is united and strong. Inspired by the need for telemarkers to have their own day of celebration and...
Tim Shepard Joins the AVSC Tele Team as a Coach
East Coast native and now West Coast dweller Tim Shepard has successfully begun a new chapter coaching for the Aspen Valley Ski Club (AVSC) Telemark Team. While much of Colorado is waiting for the snow to fall, Shepard and the kids have been charging hard, careful not to lose sight of what winter really means....
