While the eponymous New Telemark Norm is actually not so new, there is something fresh happening on the platform. A muted respect for the turn has replaced the ire the skiing masses long threw toward ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 new bindings helped usher in not only a modern gear paradigm, but also a new world view on telemark. Its forgoing of 75mm dogma–often typecast as not just a devotion to a certain binding but also ...

As I make my way down a steep, corn snow-laden slope drenched in evening sun, using two skis to dance with gravity for just a moment in this short life, the ether seems to ask, What do you want out of ...

A look at the best resort, touring, and old-school bindings for free-heel skiing. Telemark gear–especially its bindings–has long evolved between the competing ideals and trade-offs of touring specs ...