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 ...

While the sport has evolved markedly, the oft hoped for 3rd Wave of American Telemark Skiing may be a fantasy after all. And ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As I make my way down a steep, corn snow-laden slope drenched in evening sun, using two skis to dance with gravity for just a ...

Telemark skiing has long been dogged by a war over two incompatible norms. And debate rages on about what platform serves 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 ...

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 ...

Long before Jody Thompson started up Mt. Everest as part of the first all-American women’s mountaineering team sponsored by Ford Motor Company in 2002, she was competing – and winning – plenty of ...

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 ...

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 ...

As I make my way down a steep, corn snow-laden slope drenched in evening sun, using two skis to dance with gravity for just a moment in this short life, the ether seems to ask, What do you want out of ...