Madsen’s take was all the more provocative given his former shop’s resort-oriented, NTN facing. Though the store sold a wide ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve never been a new-gear type of guy. In fact, like a true apostate of free-heel progression, I long swore off the greatest ...

Telemark skiers are a funny breed. How else to explain the passion of people who are pursuing a turn invented in Norway in the 1860s that amounts to genuflecting your way down the hill?

Have you noticed people aren’t saying “no one cares you tele” much anymore? That refrain–a phrase that for years easily left the lips of The Turn’s many disparagers–had long been a trusty ...

Like any subculture's new guard, the modern telemark movement seems to have a quirky relationship with its history. Instead of prioritizing things past, the niche sport’s new school is naturally ...

This post first appeared on SKI. 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 centimeter Tua skis (maybe 75 millimeter ...

With precious few models coming to market, telemark’s gear discussion only has so much to talk about. Has our online debate become an itch scratched raw? Or something more? The moment at hand was ...

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 ...