Madsen’s take was all the more provocative given his former shop’s resort-oriented, NTN facing. Though the store sold a wide ...

View post: Engagement Ring Drops 118 Feet, Ski Resort Employee Saves The Day But so often that reflection is relegated to the lowest of fodder by the free-heeling newschool who youthfully declares ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

Like any subculture's new guard, the modern telemark movement seems to have a quirky relationship with its history. Instead of prioritizing things past, the niche sport’s new school is naturally ...

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 ...

With precious few models coming to market, telemark’s gear discussion only has so much to talk about. Has our online debate become an itch scratched raw? Or something more? The moment at hand was ...

Perhaps not unlike humanity in general, the telemark subculture so often seems fixated on time. Indeed many of the free-heeling throngs remember the good old days of leathers and 3-pins, those halcyon ...

From meadow skipping to extreme descents, telemark long had one binding platform–the 75mm Nordic Norm. Now several norms and sub-norms proliferate, muddying the free-heel gear paradigm. But has this ...