VAIL – In the same vein as snowboarding, telemark skiing carries its own image, or perceived image.”There’s definitely a stereotype,” said Molly Etters, 16. “The stereotype is that tele skiers are old ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

There seems to be widespread interest in dipping a toe in the telemark pool. I say: Why not go all in? In ways small and large (well, maybe mostly small), telemark skiing is back. A modest but fully ...

Q: I’ve not seen one of your movies for a few years now because you have not been giving the sport of tele-skiing enough coverage in your movies. There are some really great free-heel skiers out there ...

Comparing skiing's monoskiers to fashion's hipsters would not be entirely accurate. However, it also would not be entirely off-base. Monoskiing is a scarcely-practiced, but fiercely prevailing, style ...

Cross-country skis, by design, don't perform very well on the downhill. They're light, flimsy, and often edgeless. Did that stop this skier from putting on a downhill cross-country skiing clinic?