Different people come at learning to telemark ski from vastly different angles, experience levels and skill sets. What’s often the same is the eagerness to give it a try, and the determination to ...

Watching an elite level telemark skier carve down a steep slope is one of the most mystifying sights to anyone who doesn’t know how to freeheel. As telemark competition promoter and movie producer Nat ...

Telemark has long been judged. But some of those critiques have been instrumental to the sport’s evolution. Have you noticed people aren’t saying “no one cares you tele” much anymore? That refrain–a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Garnet Hill Lodge in North River offers trails for skiers of a variety of ski levels, and lessons to help you do more. (Gillian Scott / Times Union) In the process of learning a new physical activity, ...

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 ...