Where does telemark fits into the mix when time marches on, the knees creak, and the plate gets full?

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 ...

A thought piece on The Turn’s chief implement.

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.

Every sport has its subcultures, and for skiing, it’s undoubtedly the wide world of telemarking. In fact, telemark skiing outdates alpine skiing by centuries. The sport has evolved tremendously over ...

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 ...

This post first appeared on SKI. Back in the late ’90s when I was a high schooler and the snow was lousy at my local resort I used to pull out a pair of 210 centimeter Tua skis (maybe 75 millimeter ...

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 ...

The latest session of the club, known as Tele-Tuesdays, drew 50 free-heeling telemarkers to Beaver Creek Mountain, despite that discipline’s famously spiritual distaste for crowds. “Everyone I know ...