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Welcome Back to Telemark Voices
Hello again, Telemark Voices has been a little quiet the last little bit - a big thanks to Alex Limkin and Rajkeshwar Tulsie for helping...

Jack O'Brien
Oct 19, 20242 min read


Lou Dawson Elevates Skiing (Again)
Dawson skiing the Crestone Needle in 1991 - an image that would later grace the cover of Couloir. Courtesy Glenn Randall. “Any man who...

Jack O'Brien
Oct 18, 20249 min read


Telemark's Modern Moves: A Glance at Scarpa's New Tx Pro - and Everything After
The new Tx Pro from Scarpa Bounding down the slope, pressed into lunge, I feel the rigid, active feedback of telemark’s belated entrance...

Jack O'Brien
Sep 9, 202410 min read


Flow State Convergence: Telemark and Neurodivergence
Source: Katy Higgins Lee, MA, MFT, Tending Paths Editors Note: Telemark Voices is happy to be joined by another new contributor this...
Alex Limkin
Jul 16, 20245 min read


Can the Wider Discussion on Telemark Ever Be Elevated?
Can the visible conversation on free-heel skiing reach a deeper level, or is the discourse on The Turn doomed to dissonance? “I care that...

Jack O'Brien
Jun 9, 20248 min read


Why I Tele
A Brown Guy Perspective Editor's note: The plural in Telemark Voices at long last becomes apt - I am honored to have my first outside...
Rajkeshwar Tulsie
May 20, 20245 min read


The Convergence - Telemark’s Fitful if Symbiotic Journey Toward Alpine
In the midst of the 2016/2017 ski season – one which saw massive snows in the Sierra and New England and gave much of the West a...

Jack O'Brien
Feb 14, 20248 min read


The Codger
It was another quiet night in a once lively restaurant during a less than exceptionall time in my life. I was bussing tables at an...

Jack O'Brien
Jan 10, 20244 min read


The Toil That is the Backcountry
We didn’t really have a great plan – at least that’s how I felt. My backcountry partner wanted to ski a certain line that I was sure...

Jack O'Brien
Dec 18, 20237 min read


75mm Resurrected?
Rumors of 75mm’s death may have been exaggerated as Scarpa’s leaked 2024/25 catalog now shows a curious thing – more 75mm models than...

Jack O'Brien
Dec 7, 20235 min read


Does a Telemark Culture Actually Exist?
Does this lowly band of free-heelers constitute a subculture? Photo credit Noah Wetzel, courtesy Big Agnes Ask anyone about telemark...

Jack O'Brien
Nov 9, 20234 min read


Do You Need To Hoard a Telemark Boot Quiver? Part II: Compatibility Blues
To take part in the breadth of free-heel skiing may now forever require a collection of boots, but telemark innovators have in mind...

Jack O'Brien
Oct 27, 20238 min read


Do You Need to Hoard a Telemark Boot Quiver? Part I: Work-Arounds and the Waiting Game
Vintage, bellowed F1s and F3s? The New Scarpa Boot? The death of 75mm?? One boot will never be able to do it all. So is it time for...

Jack O'Brien
Oct 25, 20237 min read


An Ode To The Telemark Instructor
Sitting on the floor of my parent’s old house in Steamboat Springs, I helped distribute gifts to my sister, mother, and father while...

Jack O'Brien
Oct 14, 20235 min read


It's 2023. What Telemark Gear Should You Start On?
So you want to try telemark. Check. And you have a little cash to burn. Great. But the dudes in the local ski shop don't know tele, and...

Jack O'Brien
Oct 7, 202310 min read


Who's Behind The Outdoor Web Content You're Reading?
Conglomerate takeovers. Unwavering adherence to SEO strategies. And the ascendence of affiliate-link revenue models. A new ambiguity...

Jack O'Brien
Sep 30, 202317 min read


Howelsen Hill – A Short History of a Little Telemark Oasis
I was scared. Standing at the base of Howelsen Hill, having just stepped into my pin bindings affixed to my skinny XCD skis, I felt...

Jack O'Brien
Sep 18, 20235 min read


Telemark and the Machine
What's the route forward for free-heel skiing? A misty , aborted morning on Klickitat Another fall is upon the Northern Hemisphere, and...

Jack O'Brien
Aug 31, 20236 min read


One Man Saved Telemark
Telemark stands where it does now in large part because of one man’s blog. Meet Craig Dostie and his humble website, EarnYourTurns.

Jack O'Brien
Aug 22, 202313 min read


Fatherhood, Unexpected Discoveries, and an Ode to the Biggest Winter
The ski season had weeks ago ended, but the five-hundred-foot hill in town still held ample snow . It had been the winter of the ages;...

Jack O'Brien
Aug 10, 20234 min read
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