Let's make one thing CLEAR here. There's nothing wrong with telemarking, the mode of skiing (albeit extremely inefficient and completely counter to its origins today). There are plenty of badass telemarkers ripping it up in all conditions. The topic here is how lame telemarktips is. Though perhaps we might as well have a topic on how blue the sky is. I bet there's a 50 page thread on it on telemarktips.