There’s not many options for telemark skiers to choose from these days, but here are a few favorites. Powder aims to feature ...

Telemark gear–especially its bindings–has long evolved between the competing ideals and trade-offs of touring specs and ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. When outfitting your ski setup, boots should be the ...

This is the first installment profiling DIY innovators in telemark skiing. Spend much time traveling the dark backroads of the online telemark world, and you will start to see a familiar handle pop up ...

SALIDA — It’s been a long time coming, but I finally got some sole. It was bound to happen at some point. After all, I took up telemark skiing nearly 20 years before any insecure alpiner got around to ...

STEVENS PASS -- Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, beware this curious "tele" cult carving so gracefully down the slopes like snowbound sirens. Free the heel, they say, and the rest will follow.

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.