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 ...

The first time I really regretted learning to telemark ski was on the Wall at Kirkwood. I shouldn’t have been on a double black at all, let alone on a pair of purple and yellow Kazama Couloirs, an old ...

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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, ...

May 7 - It gave birth to skiing as we know it, but it still gets no respect. It came eons before snowboarding, but you won't see it in the Olympics. No, it's not cross-country skiing. Telemarking is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...