Meet the Noco Kneedroppers: Telemark's Most Grassroots and Fun Crew

“If we’re going to do a gear library, we don’t want to lend out crap,” Nate Atkinson tells me with his ever-present smile. Part enthusiast, part grassroots pied piper, Atkinson and his friend Jeremy Utz’s Noco Kneedroppers–a get-out-and-tele group focused first on stoke–could be something of a harbinger of telemark’s revival-in-the-making.Their Adirondack-based outfit not only puts together weekly Tele Tuesdays at their local hill, Mount Pisgah, th