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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Ever wonder how you could combine the joys of skiing and dancing? The answer, it seems, has a lot to do with the ever-rapid growth of telemark skiing.Some freeheel skiers have likened the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BRECKENRIDGE – Pete Gallup is in heaven right now. The 30-year-old Breckenridge resident has become one of the top professional telemark skiers in the country and, in his mind, there is nowhere to go ...