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 ...

The first time I really regretted learning to telemark ski was on the Wall at Kirkwood. I shouldn’t have been on a double black at all, let alone on a pair of purple and yellow Kazama Couloirs, an old ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...