Josh Madsen Has No Comment

When I noted in June of 2024 that someone was missing from the telemark subculture, the vacuum that person had left remained inescapable. Josh Madsen’s fitful departure from all things free-heel some six months earlier was then unavoidably awkward and touchy–like a permanent row between friends in a tight-knit group.Following his ‘Three Top Reasons Telemark Struggles to Grow’ podcast–a divisive and raw criticism of much of the modern telemark landscape–people