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, ...
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 ...
Telemark skiing has long been ostracized in part because of its perceived spiritual arrogance. Is that telemark’s problem, or a vision of how jaded our once idealistic world has become? Telemark once ...
Telemark has long been judged. But some of those critiques have been instrumental to the sport’s evolution. Have you noticed people aren’t saying “no one cares you tele” much anymore? That refrain–a ...
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 ...
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 ...
On two days that could not have been more different, the 14th annual U.S. Telemark Extreme Freeskiing Championships were held in Crested Butte on Friday and Saturday. There were 62 skiers competing in ...
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Catherine Rigby, a renowned telemark , big mountain, and expedition skier covering first descents of some of the world’s most revered peaks, died in an avalanche in a Kosovo ...
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 ...