Local's Gear Guide: Slaying the slopes on women's telemark gear
Long before Jody Thompson started up Mt. Everest as part of the first all-American women's mountaineering team sponsored by Ford Motor Company in 2002, she was competing - and winning - plenty of telemark competitions in S Copyright 2012 Summit Daily News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Summit Daily News Local's Gear Guide ...

Whatever it takes
Active Outdoors Making the best of a weird winter Embed multimedia (photos, galleries, audio, map):  020312timjones pic My sweetheart Marilyn and I were Alpine skiing at Burke Mountain in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom the other day and saw three different skiers using Alpine Touring gear to skin up the sides of the slopes instead of riding the lifts. AT gear (similar to Telemark gear) uses lighter ...

Learn to ski and ride: telemark skiing
Different people come at learning to telemark ski from vastly different angles, experience levels and skill sets. What's often the same is the eagerness to give it a try, and the determination to learn. That much was evident in Frid Copyright 2012 Summit Daily News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Summit Daily News Learn to ski ...

ORS Direct Launches Super Sale Discount Clearance Department
ORS Direct and its family of niche outdoor gear retail sites, including ORS Racks Direct, ORS Snowshoes Direct and ORS Cross Country Skis Direct, now feature deeply discounted, clearance and overstock items in a broad range of categories — nordic and backcountry-telemark skis, snowshoes, bike racks, clothing, accessories and more. ...

Local's Gear Guide: Men's telemark skis
DAN GIBBS, SUMMIT COUNTY COMMISSIONER; WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER Dan stepped into the public limelight when he won a seat in the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006, served in the State Senate, and is now one of three Summit County Commissioners.