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 ...

If I can do it, you can do it,” Cutler responds. The film then suddenly shifts into a dream sequence. “And, you can do it,” ...

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 ...

In 1978, a book on telemark skiing was released that would forever change the sport. Exploring technique as much as the coalescing free-heel philosophy, Cross-Country Downhill and Other Nordic ...

There exist precious few resources for learning the telemark turn. Luckily, a few books in the canon have stood the test of time. A look at four classic free-heel how-to’s. Part One of a series. While ...

Some two summers past, delighting in the prospect of a post-mountain bike ride beverage, I took a seat at a high top, and thought about beer as I absent-mindedly surveyed the brewery. But something ...

I have something to come clean on. And it’s a funny little thing to admit for this monogamous free-heel skier with a dedicated telemark column of all things. This was the first season since I picked ...

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 generation has all but abated. And most of the Phish fans finally went ...

Long ago, during a time much different than today, telemark wasn’t just en vogue. It held the distinction of being the technique of the backcountry skier in North America. That cachet stoked strong ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No other book may embody telemark in its countercultural formmore than Brad English’s 1984 softcover Total Telemarking. With ...

Thoughts on over or under-committing to a single turn. Could a telemark skier possibly return to locking their heel to a ski? I have something to come clean on. And it’s a funny little thing to admit ...

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 ...