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 ...

STEVENS PASS -- Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, beware this curious "tele" cult carving so gracefully down the slopes like snowbound sirens. Free the heel, they say, and the rest will follow.

Feeling uneasy on skis is an understatement when it comes to learning how to telemark ski. I know the truth: that the graceful movements that make up a telemark skier’s dance down the mountain aren’t ...

Lessons learned on three pins: A journey through free-heel gear progression, and musings on telemark philosophy. I’ve never been a new-gear type of guy. In fact, like a true apostate of free-heel ...

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 ...

A thought piece on The Turn’s chief implement.

• Telemark skiing combines cross country with downhill. • FEA cut weight off G3 bindings without a strength loss. • Physical tests verified FEA results. Telemark skiing might not have as many devotees ...

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 ...

Wayne Haddad is probably best known around the Worcester area as the auto detailing guy with the busy shop just off the intersection of Interstate 290 and Route 146. Auto detailing is his avocation ...