Is telemark’s modern gear paradigm–feature-laden and aggressive–losing something as it moves forward?

From meadow skipping to extreme descents, telemark long had one binding platform–the 75mm Nordic Norm. Now several norms and sub-norms proliferate, muddying the free-heel gear paradigm. But has this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Perhaps not unlike humanity in general, the telemark subculture so often seems fixated on time. Indeed many of the free-heeling ...

Ever looking across the aisle at the alpine world, telemark equipment has long evolved toward stiffer, more resistive models. Not least of all the sport’s boots, whose modern plastic iterations are ...

With innovative new equipment and a revitalized subculture, telemark has entered its modern era. But a ...

Back in the late 90s when I was a high schooler and the snow was lousy at my local resort I used to pull out a pair of 210 cm Tua skis (maybe 75mm underfoot?) mounted with flimsy Voile telemark ...

As I found my seat in the gondola car, I immediately noticed the square toe on his ski boot. This was years ago, and I had only recently made the switch completely to telemark skiing, now fully ...

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 ...