Is Telemark's Unconventional Streak Coming to an End?

No other book may embody telemark in its countercultural formmore than Brad English’s 1984 softcover Total Telemarking. With free-heel pathfinder Doug Buzzell emblazoned on the cover, unironically bespectacled with glacier glasses and holding arms high, driving the sort of freewheeling, lunging turn endemic of the time, the work epitomizes the genuine, unconventional aura that long defined telemark skiing.But it was Total Telemarking’s words that were most operative. Heady, innovativ