In any sport, beginners need the best gear but they usually start out with the worst. For me, taking up telemark skiing has been no different. I’ve wanted to try telemark skiing for years, and at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ten years ago, the Olympic torch passed through Mordegal, Norway, the birthplace of a man named Sondre Norheim. While Sondre Norheim might not be well-known to most Western skiers, the fact that ...

F rom meadow skipping to extreme descents, telemark long had one binding platform–the 75mm Nordic Norm. Now several norms and ...

“You’re not retarded. That’s normal.”Of course, my instructor hadn’t seen my rented tele-skis jump off my shoulder and clatter to the bricks on the mall when she offered that reassuring assessment.The ...

Alpine skiing gets good press because no camera can resist those action images of coiled bodies snaking through mogul fields or the dazzling athletics of catching air over a bump. Recreational cross ...