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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...