Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. Telemark gear–especially its bindings–has long evolved between the ...

While the eponymous New Telemark Norm is actually not so new, there is something fresh happening on the platform. A muted respect for the turn has replaced the ire the skiing masses long threw toward ...

More than ten years ago, ATK came to market with a telemark binding. With the sport rising anew, is the time ripe for the darling of the modern free touring scene to jump back in? So it was little ...

The 75mm binding platform–with its iconic metal cage bindings and duckbilled boots–has been part of telemark lore for so long that it has become part of the very essence of the subculture But while ...

The design of a good ski binding is an exercise in engineering compromise and a lesson in the use of analysis tools. • Telemark skiing combines cross country with downhill. • FEA cut weight off G3 ...

While many telemark skiers undoubtedly make small modifications to their gear, most get by with the equipment as it is presented. The boots, bindings, and skis offered for the free-heeler–while ...

While manufacturers have undoubtedly been instrumental to free-heel innovation, the telemark DIY scene plays an outsized role in the progression of the sport’s gear, often influencing the direction of ...

Perhaps not unlike humanity in general, the telemark subculture so often seems fixated on time. Indeed many of the free-heeling throngs remember the good old days of leathers and 3-pins, those halcyon ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rottefella has created the first telemark binding developed in cooperation with boot manufacturers. SCARPA and Crispi collaborated in the project. The NTN ...

VAIL — What’s the next step after you graduate from Cornell with a mechanical engineering degree and then go to MIT for a master’s in engineering and product design? Move to Colorado to be a ski bum, ...

Telemark skiing is named after the region of Norway where it was developed in the 1860s by Sondre Norheim, from Morgedal in Telemark. He designed the free-heel binding that revolutionized the pastime.

• Telemark skiing combines cross country with downhill. • FEA cut weight off G3 bindings without a strength loss. • Physical tests verified FEA results. Telemark skiing might not have as many devotees ...