Watching an elite level telemark skier carve down a steep slope is one of the most mystifying sights to anyone who doesn’t know how to freeheel. As telemark competition promoter and movie producer Nat ...

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 to ...

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This one goes out to the newcomers–a group whose promise may render them the most important force in all of telemark, no matter how hypothetical their free-heel participation may be. We need you, and ...

Ever watch a telemark skier carve crazy loops in the snow while heading down a slope? Much of the appeal in the Scandinavian obsession is perfecting a difficult yet graceful turn that’s beautiful to ...

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 ...

Interested in trying to telemark? Nice! And doing so on a budget? How free-heel dirtbag of you! You’ll fit right in. Well, except some may accuse you of killing telemark. Much has been made of ...

And the current state of the gear. Telemark skiing’s essence is epitomized by the free-heel binding. It is the advent that sets the turn apart from other modes of downhill snow travel. And this style ...