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 ...
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 ...
From meadow skipping to extreme descents, telemark long had one binding platform–the 75mm Nordic Norm. Now several norms and sub-norms proliferate, muddying the free-heel gear paradigm. But has this ...
Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. From the first linked turns onward, telemark skiing is a journey of ...
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 ...
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 ...
As I found my seat in the gondola car, I immediately noticed the square toe on his ski boot. This was years ago, and I had only recently made the switch completely to telemark skiing, now fully ...
While the tides seem to be ever so slightly moving in a new direction, telemark has nevertheless long been rejected for its supposed holier-than-thou, heady stance. Former World Telemark Freeskiing ...
With precious few models coming to market, telemark’s gear discussion only has so much to talk about. Has our online debate become an itch scratched raw? Or something more? The moment at hand was ...
Jasmin Taylor has won more world skiing medals than any other British athlete this season, but were it not for a car boot sale back in 2012 she might never have had the chance to reach the summit of ...
January is Learn to Ski and Snowboard month across the country and some New Hampshire ski areas are offering free, season-long opportunities to teach children to ski and ride. Others are offering ski ...
Telemark thrived in that late '70s milieu in North America. Independently rediscovered just years earlier by skiers in the Eastern Sierra, the Northeast, and–possibly most legendarily–Crested Butte, ...