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 ...

The TTS binding had come into full retail maturity, granting telemark skiers an off-the-shelf option for the most efficient form of ski touring available. And the timing coincided with Scarpa’s long ...

Perhaps it’s just us telemark skiers telling ourselves sweet little lies, but something seems to be afoot in the heady, esoteric world of free-heel skiing. Jokes at our expense have given way to a ...

A few years later, as telemark’s modern platform, the new telemark norm (NTN), came to the fold, and boots like Scarpa’s TX incorporated AT tech hardware, telemark bindings utilizing Dynafit bindings ...

Robert Tusso’s DIY boot and binding experiments have left an indelible mark on telemark skiing gear. This is the first installment profiling DIY innovators in telemark skiing. Spend much time ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lessons learned on three pins: A journey through free-heel gear progression, and musings on telemark philosophy. I’ve never been a new-gear type of guy. In fact, like a true apostate of free-heel ...