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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In a ski world where much of the discourse now occurs online, a simple film stands as a reminder of the ascendency of ski ...

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 ...

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.

In a matter-of-fact but almost philosophical manner, Jason Quintana, perhaps telemark skiing’s most talented home innovator, is making sweeping points; not just about the state of telemark equipment, ...

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 ...

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 ...