A thought piece on The Turn’s chief implement.

With innovative new equipment and a revitalized subculture, telemark has entered its modern era. But a ...

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 ...

Is telemark’s modern gear paradigm–feature-laden and aggressive–losing something as it moves forward?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an Olympic skier. I wanted to have a name like Picabo Street and win a gold medal. I grew up skiing in the Midwest, which surprisingly does produce several Olympic ...