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 ...

Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. After what feels like a lifetime of conjecture and rumor, Scarpa ...

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 ...

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 ...

Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. Admittedly, that’s not what everyone is looking for. In fact, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The TTS binding had come into full retail maturity, granting telemark skiers an off-the-shelf option for the most efficient form of ski touring available. And the timing coincided with Scarpa’s long ...

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 ...

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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 ...