It’s said that Black Diamond found our backcountry skiing epoxy test to be interesting. We hope it helps them with their knowledge base they use for customer support — and we hope all you blogsters found it useful — and got a chuckle out of it.

For years, we’ve used epoxy for the screws when mounting ski bindings — telemark and AT randonnee. Doing so yields a trouble free mount that never loosens, has better pull-out strength, and is totally sealed against moisture.

We’re having a beautiful string of cold nights and sunny days here in central Colorado — should be setting up a good backcountry skiing snowpack

For the past couple of years I’ve been amused by loud panting in the telemark community about a new telemark binding and boot standard that’s creeping to reality. Known as the “New Telemark Norm,” the “NTN” standard appears to basically…

Honoring the legendary Art Burrows, telemark skiing pioneer and all-around ski touring guru who spends a lot of time in the backcountry.