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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

VAIL – It’s hard. It makes your thighs burn. You’re really tired when you’re done.Apparently, those are good things – reasons to cross over to telemark skiing and never look back.”This is more ...

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 ...

just popped on and the setting sun bathes hulking Mount Hood in purple, pink and orange alpenglow. I got here via alpine touring skis up the Vista Ridge sidecountry, just out of bounds. Before I peel ...