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 ...

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, ...

The design of a good ski binding is an exercise in engineering compromise and a lesson in the use of analysis tools. • Telemark skiing combines cross country with downhill. • FEA cut weight off G3 ...

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

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 ...

Doing lunges down a mountain may not seem like a fun or efficient way to ski, but those of us addicted to telemark skiing wouldn’t have it any other way. Some people have compared the flow of telemark ...

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 ...

Ever watch a telemark skier carve crazy loops in the snow while heading down a slope? Much of the appeal in the Scandinavian obsession is perfecting a difficult yet graceful turn that’s beautiful to ...