GLENWOOD SPRINGS ” At 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jim Markuson hadn’t a clue how to make a telemark turn. By 1 p.m., he was carving arcs like a pro, courtesy of Megan Ballard, one of seven telemark ...

Legendarily, the telemark movement in America started as a rebellion. In the melange of post-Woodstock counterculture and ...

VAIL – It’s hard. It makes your thighs burn. You’re really tired when you’re done.Apparently, those are good things – reasons to cross over to telemark skiing and never look back.”This is more ...

I hooked up with a couple of friends who ski telemark and hit 49 Degrees North Saturday. We were there during the mountain’s Winterfest weekend. The conditions weren’t ideal. Wet snow had fallen, ...

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Kelli Anthony and Nat Ross want to bring the excitement of telemark freeskiing competition to Vail’s youth. The local pair, who both used to compete in the U.S. Telemark Freeskiing Series, are holding ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The first turn I ever made on skis was one I had learned, more or less, out of a book that must have been produced before World War I. I found the book in ...

A Utah woman heralded as “the pioneer of extreme telemarking” died Tuesday after being swept up in an avalanche at a ski resort in Kosovo. Catherine “Kasha” Rigby, 54, challenged the common ...

Back in the late 90s when I was a high schooler and the snow was lousy at my local resort I used to pull out a pair of 210 cm Tua skis (maybe 75mm underfoot?) mounted with flimsy Voile telemark ...

Competitive alpine ski racers are generally done with the sport by their early 30s. But Jeannine Poucel didn’t even begin her racing career until reaching that age. She entered the very first race she ...

You ll see a range of styles on the ski slopes these days snowboarding, alpine skiing and telemarking. Telemark skiing was first developed in Norway and has grown in popularity in the U.S. in the past ...

Question: Is there a backcountry hut or yurt system in New Hampshire, Vermont, or New York similar to the ones of the Tenth Mountain Division system in Colorado? I am planning a winter cross-country ...