Mount Telemark outside Cable doesn’t exactly look like a mountain. With a vertical of just 370 feet, it’s barely more than a hill. It’s actually a kame — an accumulation of debris left ...

Telemark Skiing Is Dead. Many of the best and most dedicated telemark skiers have locked down their heels in the 2010s. What exactly happened, and why? Author: ... the scene burst from the woods onto ...

Telemark skiers are a funny breed. How else to explain the passion of people who are pursuing a turn invented in Norway in the 1860s that amounts to genuflecting your way down the hill?

I want to end this article with a prediction: in five year’s you’re going to see a lot more telemark skiers at your local ski hill. Here’s why: Over the past ten years, we’ve seen a lot of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Known as the father of the telemark turn, Norheim perfected the downhill, free-hill technique. A free-heel genius, Norheim also developed skis with sidecut, and, as Brad English detailed in his 1984 ...