I chose my line of untracked snow and pushed off, testing my telemark turns in the knee-deep powder. |
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As we dropped in elevation, the snow improved, getting lighter and deeper with each telemark turn. |
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Individual and group lessons are offered in classic, skating and telemark techniques. |
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It's like being on a boat, sleeping on the bus, waking, buying a lift ticket, being pulleyed up the mountain, the payoff, the floating dance of linked telemark turns. |
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It can be used for telemark, backcountry touring, and downhill, and is not wedded to tracks because it is shorter, wider, and more stable than traditional cross-country skis. |
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Saturday will begin with a projection dedicated to the ski technique known as telemark. |
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Since I first came down a hill on telemark skis, I have continuously evolved in the sport. |
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I ratcheted down the buckles of my telemark boots, and slid off back the way I came. |
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The last on this list of survival ski techniques, but perhaps most important, the snowplow is usually the first turning position learned in alpine or telemark skiing. |
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Ole, Luis and Stig doing some summersaults with telemark skis in powder at the top of la Grave. |
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Åre and adjacent Duved also offer world-class slopes for snowboarding, telemark and carving. |
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Seabury Blair, an outdoor writer from Washington, skis down from Sentinel Dome, making graceful bent-knee telemark turns. |
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Skiing a few days later in Big Cottonwood Canyon, near Salt Lake City, Presnell was making his classic big-stance telemark turns when a giant slab of snow broke loose and swept him into a grove of trees. |
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Although Ane only went with telemark skis, she seems to have made an enormous impression, because immediately after the contest, she received some sponsorship deals. |
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Shiny powder-snow pistes invite you to enjoy skiing, cross-country skiing, skating and tobogganing, or to try out trendy sports such as snowboarding, telemark skiing, carving and snow-shoe walking. |
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The use of a safety strap or retention device by snowboarders or telemark skiers without ski brakes will increase the risk of not surviving an avalanche. |
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If Mother Nature isn't cooperating, their state-of the art snowmaking equipment and daily grooming keep skiers and boarders happy and certified instructors busy with alpine, telemark and snowboarding lessons for all ages. |
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Today the telemark turn is considered to be one of the prettiest moves in all of free-heeled skiing. |
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They even managed a few telemark turns and schusses down the course's hills. |
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Better practice your downhill and cross-country skiing before you try to telemark. |
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The 1960s also saw Telemark do pioneer work with man-made snow, creating what was at the time the world's largest snowmaking system. |
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Telemark skis have taken on radical widths and sidecuts in recent years. |
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The 16-year-old was given a lesson in Telemark skiing by teacher and instructor Gary Bishop. |
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The graceful, flowing S-turn executed by Norheim on bended knee, with one ski well in front of the other, became known as the Telemark Turn. |
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Oh, yes, the Telemark turns are the most beautiful turns you see on the mountain. |
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Exertionally and in practice somewhere between cross and downhill skiing there is Telemark, a sport which has gained popularity rapidly in the last several years. |
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In early 1943 Stromsheim, an explosives expert and an excellent skier, parachuted into his native Norway to sabotage the German heavy water plant in the Telemark. |
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Le Telemark built by MGM at Tignes Le Lac which opened recently ticks three important boxes, according to MGM's London-based sales consultant Richard Deans. |
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The films Die Another Day, The Golden Compass, Spies Like Us and Heroes of Telemark, as well as the TV series Lilyhammer and Vikings also had scenes set in Norway. |
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