ASPEN – Ever wax up your cross-country skis and then proceed to flail on the trail? Should you have waxed with green instead of blue, red instead of purple? And what’s yellow for, anyway? The Aspen ...
Cross-country skiing is evolving at warp speed. Skis are faster, lighter, and more durable each season. And with the advent of spray-on waxing and ever-improving skin technologies, they also require ...
Every millisecond counts when an athlete has his or her shot to win the gold at the Olympics. So whether it be Mikaela Shiffrin’s skis for slalom or Chloe Kim’s snowboard for the halfpipe, the art of ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - It is the one subject skiers and snowboarders cannot stop obsessing about at the Winter Olympics - how best to wax their equipment to ensure maximum speed and stability. Get it ...
If sliding on snow is your winter pastime, you’ve almost certainly carved a few turns by now, whether up in the Cascades or on the nearest hilly street thanks to our late December blast that turned ...
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Behind the scenes of the cross-country events at the Pyeongchang Games, competition between the waxing technicians tasked with helping their skiers glide to gold ...
Ottawa County Parks is offering a Cross-country Ski & Waxing Workshop 2 p.m. Sunday at the Nature Education Center located at Hemlock Crossing County Park. Cross-country skiing is a great winter ...
A Salt Lake City ski company and a University of Utah science professor say their invention means you’ll never need to wax your skis again. Their polymer-based “permanent base glide treatment” will ...