Every sport has its subcultures, and for skiing, it’s undoubtedly the wide world of telemarking. In fact, telemark skiing outdates alpine skiing by centuries. The sport has evolved tremendously over ...

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Have you noticed people aren’t saying “no one cares you tele” much anymore? That refrain–a phrase that for years easily left the lips of The Turn’s many disparagers–had long been a trusty ...

In the early spring of 2021, at a time when telemark skiing was still experiencing a long-lived if soon to be concluded dormancy, a rare thing happened for the genuflecting turn. For the first time in ...

This one goes out to the newcomers–a group whose promise may render them the most important force in all of telemark, no matter how hypothetical their free-heel participation may be. We need you, and ...

Telemark skiers are a funny breed. How else to explain the passion of people who are pursuing a turn invented in Norway in the 1860s that amounts to genuflecting your way down the hill?

Like any subculture's new guard, the modern telemark movement seems to have a quirky relationship with its history. Instead of prioritizing things past, the niche sport’s new school is naturally ...

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

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Catherine Rigby, a renowned telemark, big mountain, and expedition skier covering first descents of some of the world’s most revered peaks, died in an avalanche in a Kosovo resort.

As the American Birkebeiner cross-country ski race gets ready to celebrate its 50th running at the end of February, the group that organizes it is breathing new life into the property where it all ...