Word: telemarks
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...suitable terrain, the snowmaker can produce an 8-in.-deep ski slope 250 ft. by 1,000 ft. overnight. If greater acreage is needed, just add more pipes and more nozzles. Biggest so far is a total of 85 acres, turned out to cover slopes and trails at the Telemark Ski Area in Cable...
...battle at Elverum, a siege at Narvik, Osloans knew nothing. When an isolated radio station high in Telemark kept broadcasting the fugitive Government's reports, German troops found and destroyed it lest South Norway hear more. No Oslo newspaper could publish until it had agreed to print the manifesto of Norse-Nazi Major Vidkun Quisling's junto. Arbeiderbladet, organ of Premier Nygaardsvold's Party, refused and suspended. Arbeideren, Norwegian Communist paper, readily acceded and reappeared urging abandonment of "provocative resistance...
...which is allegedly the first efficient harness. Zdansky, moreover, was an ardent exponent of the Alpine School, which came to blows more than once with the Norwegian school. At the turn of the century the dispute between the two schools was partially mitigated by a mutual acceptance of the telemark and the open christiania as the only proper turns. A photograph of the Kandahar race of 1930 shows innumerable different schools, all acceptable...
...then edging the other over. Pure "Christies" (now learned after stemming is mastered) involve no stemming, but are accomplished by swinging the weight of the body while thrusting one ski forward. They are more graceful and faster than stem turns, or the other great ski maneuver-the Telemark...
...Originally the orthodox ski technique, Telemark turns (accomplished by sliding one ski far forward so that it guides the other into the turn) are practical only in deep snow, lost favor when the Christiania technique was developed...