Word: telemarks
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...amazing rate. Soon there was scarcely a man in college without his pair of skis, and the highways and byways around Hanover were all given over to the demands of this new sport. Several different kinds of skis appeared, old too straps gave place to daredevil harnesses, and "telemark" and "christiana" turns became topics of general discussion. It is said that the college had never fallen so quickly for any other new sport as it did in 1910 for skiing...
...supposed to be traditionally dressed in corduroy trousers and a dirty sweat-shirt. But until recently those skis were more or less of a myth. Strange as it may seem to those brought up on the Dartmouth outdoor tradition, hundreds of men graduated from the college without knowing a telemark from a gelandesprung. Skiing was left to a comparatively small group of outdoor enthusiasts of the dyed-in-the-wool sort...