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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...