Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. It’s easy to forget that this moment–the release of not one, but now ...

Reviewing ski gear–especially telemark equipment–is an interesting undertaking. Not only is the sensation granted by spring, cable, boot, and ski undeniably impacted by each user’s subjectivity, each ...

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

Telemark skiing isn’t always about the aesthetic pleasure of pretty turns. Sometimes you just want to go fast. Whether you’re a free-heeled speed freak, a telemarking park maestro or simply enjoy smug ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I think what you re after is the Scarpa Matrix, Tony. It s an AT boot that Scarpa has designed with enough flex to keep you pretty happy on the ascent and traverses. And after some complaints that it ...

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 cm Tua skis (maybe 75mm underfoot?) mounted with flimsy Voile telemark ...