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 ...

View post: Editor's Picks: The Best Ski Pants & Bibs for Women of 2026 But so often that reflection is relegated to the lowest of fodder by the free-heeling newschool who youthfully declares that they ...

Lessons learned on three pins: A journey through free-heel gear progression, and musings on telemark philosophy. I’ve never been a new-gear type of guy. In fact, like a true apostate of free-heel ...

Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. It’s easy to forget that this moment–the release of not one, but now ...

One of the driving factors behind modern telemark and its popularity is the gear. Back in the day, tele skiers wore leather boots with modified three-pin cross-country bindings mounted to whatever ...

Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. While the eponymous New Telemark Norm is actually not so new, there is ...

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 ...

With features like a free-pivot touring mechanism, a reliable safety release, brakes, and the closest thing to step-in convenience in the freeheel world, the NTN (New Telemark Norm) binding represents ...

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 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 ...