Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. Modern, conventional wisdom has eschewed the telemark-specific ski. To ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“You’re not retarded. That’s normal.”Of course, my instructor hadn’t seen my rented tele-skis jump off my shoulder and clatter to the bricks on the mall when she offered that reassuring assessment.The ...

My take on the current state of telemark bindings that allow you to lock your heel. But so often that reflection is relegated to the lowest of fodder by the free-heeling newschool who youthfully ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Doing lunges down a mountain may not seem like a fun or efficient way to ski, but those of us addicted to telemark skiing wouldn’t have it any other way.

There seems to be widespread interest in dipping a toe in the telemark pool. I say: Why not go all in? In ways small and large (well, maybe mostly small), telemark skiing is back. A modest but fully ...

Ever watch a telemark skier carve crazy loops in the snow while heading down a slope? Much of the appeal in the Scandinavian obsession is perfecting a difficult yet graceful turn that’s beautiful to ...

The first telemark turn I ever made was on a low-angle powder slope along the Slate River near Crested Butte in the mid-70s. My skis were 210 cm wooden Bonna 2400s with lignastone edges and Swedish ...

In ways small and large (well, maybe mostly small), telemark skiing is back. A modest but fully realized complement of modern gear has finally come to retail fruition in the form of new boots and ...