Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In early December of 2022, a video of a skier using the lowest of telemark styles started oozing its way onto Instagram feeds and ...

Ever looking across the aisle at the alpine world, telemark equipment has long evolved toward stiffer, more resistive models. Not least of all the sport’s boots, whose modern plastic iterations are ...

Powder and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. Look around, and you will see it. Free-heel rippers are again sending airs and rails in the park; the tele-hate of the previous ...

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 ...

Eron Turnipseed did something last year on telemark skis in front of Vail cinematographer Nat Ross that few alpine skiers could do – he cleaned Copper Mountain’s 100-foot rail.The rail, located in ...

But as the TX Pro saw widespread use, something began to happen. While many enjoyed the new boot immediately, others were rebuffed by the new, rigid model. Sputtered turns and awkward growing pains ...

Telemark skiing has indeed come a long way toward acceptability –even renewed respect–and all quite recently. Not long ago I, like many free-heelers of the fraught post-millenium era, was nudged ...

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 ...

With innovative new equipment and a revitalized subculture, telemark has entered its modern era. But a divisiveness–especially online–has marked the moment for the fitfully evolving niche sport. Some ...

For years, telemark skiing had a problem. As the also-ran of the snowsports world emerged from decades of retrograde, a small but impactful flourish of new, modern norms and innovative if niche ...