Bishop’s skis mark the return–arguably the modern emergence–of the telemark-specific model. And the 2025 Chedi is the real deal. Modern, conventional wisdom has eschewed the telemark-specific ski. To ...

There’s not many tele-specific skis out there these days, but here’s a few of the really good ones. Free-heelers have long debated what characteristics a ski used for the telemark technique should ...

Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. Admittedly, that’s not what everyone is looking for. In fact, the ...

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 ...

Perhaps it’s just us telemark skiers telling ourselves sweet little lies, but something seems to be afoot in the heady, esoteric world of free-heel skiing. Jokes at our expense have given way to a ...

But it was Total Telemarking’s words that were most operative. Heady, innovative, and thoughtful, English recruited topics as ...

Interested in trying to telemark? Nice! And doing so on a budget? How free-heel dirtbag of you! You’ll fit right in. Well, except some may accuse you of killing telemark. Much has been made of ...

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 ...