This would take no time at all on downhill skis. I could barely hear my thoughts above the loud grind of my cross-country skis that I held stiffly in pizza mode (meaning, I was pointing my skis ...

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Long before the days of shredding pow or double backflips, skiing was used as a method of transportation. Dating back to 4000 BCE Norway, skiing was the most efficient way to move across snowy terrain ...

I grew up in Minneapolis, so I can say this for sure: Winter is more bearable when you have something to look forward to. We knew it was going to get dark and cold for five months, so you either ...

Downhill skiing is rock ‘n’ roll. Nordic skiing is its acoustic cousin. Nordic is all about solitude and serenity, in contrast to the hustle and bustle of downhill ski areas. Cross country entails ...

Cross-country skis, by design, don't perform very well on the downhill. They're light, flimsy, and often edgeless. Did that stop this skier from putting on a downhill cross-country skiing clinic?

Which cross-country ski bindings are best? Cross-country skiing is much cheaper and more approachable if you want to get out onto the snow this winter but don’t want to shell out thousands of dollars ...

I recently met up with several friends and we got to talking about a ski weekend trip up into the Sierra. When I mentioned that I've been up to the mountains a few times this season to go ...

Cross-country skiers race on skis just two inches wide. Much thinner than their alpine counterparts where downhill, Super-G, giant slalom and slalom skis are much wider. The minimum length of ...