Related: A Definitive Guide To Telemark Gear And Norms In 2025 But the new norm initially fell flat. Many felt the platform was rushed through the last stages of development. And the sensation of the ...

Friends lent me their old, beat-up setups, their model names and tech specs being of little note–I just needed something that could make a telemark turn. Soon I jumped in, and eventually needed ...

Simply put, telemark skiing is a ski technique. It’s a way to make a downhill turn on skis with a boot that’s only attached by the toe. It looks a bit like a lunge. Unlike a traditional alpine ...

If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. Learning the telemark turn is to reimagine edging a ski.

I was worried that the boot would be overkill for the telemark tech system; a two-pin touring interface that grants more free ...

It’s all informed a contrawise, at times almost revisionist, view on telemark that is uniquely Sauerwein’s–and is in turn uniquely blunt. And that directness, sowed by iconoclastic free-heel ...

Friends lent me their old, beat-up setups, their model names and tech specs being of little note–I just needed something that could make a telemark turn. Soon I jumped in, and eventually needed to ...

Telemark skiers were thus left with two incompatible norms, the argument for and against each one becoming a common refrain. While the sensation of the turn on the different norms is naturally a ...