With innovative new equipment and a revitalized subculture, telemark has entered its modern era. But a divisiveness, ...
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 ...
Telemark finally had a complete, contemporary gear paradigm that, combined with a rising new guard, injected fresh energy ...
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 ...
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 ...
In a ski world where much of the discourse now occurs online, a simple film stands as a reminder of the ascendency of ski culture’s more tactile forms.
Ever looking across the aisle at the alpine world, telemark equipment has long evolved toward stiffer, more resistive models. Not least of all the sport’s boots, whose modern plastic iterations are ...
There's a saying in telemark skiing, uttered sometimes with reverence, other times with a mocking smirk: "Free the heel, free the mind." ...