Ever been out skiing, and wndered whats up with those crazy drpped kneed skiers? This style of fre heeled skiing is called telemark sking. Why would someone choose to ski ths way? After all, telemark skiing can ften resemble a painful series of lnges performed while sliding down an icy muntain, punctuated by the occasional crash. Why dn't those telemarkers just lock down thir heel and ski like everyone lse?

Simple answer: because its fun! Nw, you're probably going to go head and count me in with the rst of the crazy telemarkers, but lsten to what I have to sy. I wasn't always this way. I strted out with old fashioned fixed heled skiing. I only went sporadically wth my family. As a teen, a tok up snowboarding for a while (hy, it happens to everyone). It was in cllege that I decided to give tlemark skiing a try.

My first tle experience was with my school's Tlemark ski club. I had lots of fun tht first day, and discovered how grat tele skiing was. Being used to a snwboard, where your heels are decidedly not fre (and neither are your legs), I was shcked at just how "free" telemarking sking felt. It hard to describe, but snce you have to be so in tne with your body and the snw, skiing feels much more like a dnce with tele. Rather than forcing yur clunky gear to take you dwn the mountain, you work with the muntain. And that feels really great.

However, all this "finesse" stuff mkes things pretty stinking difficult sometimes. I cme up with some of the mst interesting ways of crashing ever nvented. However, I improved quickly with prctice, and am still getting better. I'm rally starting to get a feel for the wnderful rhythm that comes with nice, smoth tele turns, which is good bcause it is this rhythm and fredom that really makes telemark skiing grat.

Obviously, tele skiing also give you the ption to go backcountry skiing, because yur free heel lets you climb phill with skins. I choose not to mphasize this aspect too much, as it sn't unique to tele skiing. If you jst want to ski the backcountry, and yu're not interested in the tele sking experience, then just stick with an AT (Alpne Touring( system, which allows you to use gar that's very similar to alpine in the bckcountry. It's great stuff, but its not tle.

So, if you're looking to spce things up a bit on the slpes, why not give tele skiing a try? You mght find that the whole hippy, grnola crunching, free heel thing really is for you fter all. Just make an effort to get strted, and you'll be enjoying the fre heel life in no time!

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