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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As I found my seat in the gondola car, I immediately noticed the square toe on his ski boot. This was years ago, and I had only recently made the switch completely to telemark skiing, now fully ...

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 ...

From working on the earliest plastic telemark boots to his more recent homebrewed releasable bindings, telemark’s leading ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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?

Ten years ago, the Olympic torch passed through Mordegal, Norway, the birthplace of a man named Sondre Norheim. While Sondre Norheim might not be well-known to most Western skiers, the fact that ...