By Casey Dean, in-house writer for National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS); photograph courtesy NOLS Forget a bikini bod—it ...
Austria’s leading ski mountaineer, Paul Verbnjak, shares insights into his training routines and the specialist equipment behind top-level ski mountaineering performance. Ski touring, ski ...
Even ski instructors need to work on their turns. Larry Camp, 59 years old, has been skiing for over 40 years but never took lessons. A few years ago, he wanted to do two things at once: get better at ...
Spend a day at any ski resort in the world, and you’ll notice a quiet and effective army of workers getting things done behind the scenes. These men and women, proudly wearing their red jackets, are ...
In each class for the Cold-Weather Operations Course (CWOC) at Fort McCoy, students receive approximately 16 hours of training in skiing - one of the longest lengths of training time allotted for a ...
The National Ski Patrol estimates that patrollers provide around $400 million in value to the ski industry. However, the ...
You know you’re a skier when winter daydreams involve swooping down sparkling slopes on far off majestic mountains. So when your precious ski trip does come around, it pays to have done a bit of ...
Rosie Brennan strode east on roller skis along Rabbit Creek Road in South Anchorage, navigating stones, passing vehicles and an unrelenting uphill. It was a volume day in late September, and she had a ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. When Mikaela Shiffrin started skiing again weeks after her terrifying crash last year, the ...
Indoor ski training is nothing new – but the space and cost requirements of a state-of-the-art indoor ski slope are getting pretty extreme. Take the mammoth facility under construction in Shenzhen, ...
When Mikaela Shiffrin started skiing again weeks after her terrifying crash last year, the American star was even more alert to the potential dangers of training courses. Shiffrin's injuries — ...