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 ...

22 Design’s new NTN binding is leading telemark’s resort-bound resurgence. While the eponymous New Telemark Norm is actually not so new, there is something fresh happening on the platform. A muted ...

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 ...

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 ...

My take on the current state of telemark bindings that allow you to lock your heel. But so often that reflection is relegated to the lowest of fodder by the free-heeling newschool who youthfully ...

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 ...

In a matter-of-fact but almost philosophical manner, Jason Quintana, perhaps telemark skiing’s most talented home innovator, is making sweeping points; not just about the state of telemark equipment, ...

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 ...

Ignorance is bliss, or at least that’s what I thought just a couple of months ago. I was perfectly happy with my old Roxy G3 telemark bindings ” until I tried out the Bombshell by 22 Designs. Man, had ...

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.

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 ...