Telemark skiers are a funny breed. How else to explain the passion of people who are pursuing a turn invented in Norway in the 1860s that amounts to genuflecting your way down the hill?

Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. Telemark gear–especially its bindings–has long evolved between the ...

Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. Sometimes, it comes down to Google. Here, on my telemark column at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I’ve never been a new-gear type of guy. In fact, like a true apostate of free-heel progression, I long swore off the greatest if ...

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 ...

The 75mm binding platform–with its iconic metal cage bindings and duckbilled boots–has been part of telemark lore for so long that it has become part of the very essence of the subculture But while ...

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 cm Tua skis (maybe 75mm underfoot?) mounted with flimsy Voile telemark ...

As I found my seat in the gondola car, I immediately noticed the square toe on his ski boot. This was years ago, and I had only recently made the switch completely to telemark skiing, now fully ...

I’ve never been a new-gear type of guy. In fact, like a true apostate of free-heel progression, I long swore off the greatest if most divisive paradigm shift in recent telemark history–the New ...