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 ...

Even if telemark skiing has modestly reentered wider skiing media, it will always be best served by its own endemic coverage.

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 scene in the sentimental opus to seventies rock and roll, Almost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every sport has its subcultures, and for skiing, it’s undoubtedly the wide world of telemarking. In fact, telemark skiing outdates ...

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 ...

Skiing, as a whole, tends to do a poor job of being historically conscious. Instead, much of the subculture forgoes metacognition for a simple enjoyment of the moment. Rather than indulging in deeper ...

Powder and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. On April 27th, 2020,in the mellow voice of a novice presenter, Josh Madsen, then emerging as the most influential thought leader and ...

A commentary on historical myopia in free-heel skiing. Like any subculture’s new guard, the modern telemark movement seems to have a quirky relationship with its history. Instead of prioritizing ...

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 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 ...