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 ...
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 ...
I hooked up with a couple of friends who ski telemark and hit 49 Degrees North Saturday. We were there during the mountain’s Winterfest weekend. The conditions weren’t ideal. Wet snow had fallen, ...
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 ...
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Ever wonder how you could combine the joys of skiing and dancing? The answer, it seems, has a lot to do with the ever-rapid growth of telemark skiing.Some freeheel skiers have likened the ...
BRECKENRIDGE – Pete Gallup is in heaven right now. The 30-year-old Breckenridge resident has become one of the top professional telemark skiers in the country and, in his mind, there is nowhere to go ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The first turn I ever made on skis was one I had learned, more or less, out of a book that must have been produced before World War I. I found the book in ...
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 ...
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 ...