Media telemarking and gate crashing, as well as Colorado Ski Hall of Fame — ski touring news and opinion.

Winter Ruminations – ATCs and Soul Sports such as telemarking with heavy complex bindings.

We’ve heard it’s spiritual. We’ve heard it has more soul than anything. We’ve heard about the long running telemark “boom” and numerous “meccas” of the sport. Now telemark skiing is being compared to some sort of drug. “It’s so graceful,…

Seems like more avalanche accidents are happening this spring than during most years. The recent backcountry skiing tragedy,

More backcountry skiing statistics. Craig Dostie of Couloir Magazine shares the latest numbers, interesting trends in telemark and randonnee AT ski touring.

It’s common knowledge that overall snow slider numbers are level or decreasing, so a growing segment of business is big news (even if it only means robbing customers from other categories).