Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every sport has its subcultures, and for skiing, it’s undoubtedly the wide world of telemarking. In fact, telemark skiing outdates ...

Many of the best and most dedicated telemark skiers have locked down their heels in the 2010s. What exactly happened, and why? This opinion piece was first published in the February 2017 (45.6) issue ...

There’s not many tele-specific skis out there these days, but here’s a few of the really good ones. Free-heelers have long debated what characteristics a ski used for the telemark technique should ...

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 and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. In December of 2023, 99 articles ago for this series, I penned the first Tele Dribble, a column about free-heel skiing I named for a ...

On Tuesday afternoon in the High Roller terrain park, it was just another typical day underneath Canyon Chair at Heavenly Ski Resort. Snowboarders and skiers soared off kickers, spun 720s with ...

Ten years ago, the Olympic torch passed through Mordegal, Norway, the birthplace of a man named Sondre Norheim. While Sondre Norheim might not be well-known to most Western skiers, the fact that ...

“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 ...

They say a lot of things about time. Time loves a hero; tragedy plus time makes comedy. But no matter the trope, one thing remains true: time waits for no one. And with creaking knees and the ever ...

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 ...