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The lone telemark skier

Talking with Jake Sakson about rapping and being the only tele skier on the FWT

Updated: March 20, 2012, 8:27 PM ET
By Olivia Dwyer

If you tuned into the live feeds from the Freeskiing World Tour events in Revelstoke and Snowbird this season, you may have done a double take when Jake Sakson took his runs. No, it wasn't an equipment malfunction -- the big-mountain skier is a telemarker. In fact, he's usually the only freeheeler on the start list at FWT events. He's spent most of the season chasing powder in the Northwest, and we caught up with him after a recent powder day at Mt. Baker to talk tele turns on the FWT ...

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