With springtime bike to ski missions around the corner, here’s a primer on how to rig your wheels to carry skis, boots, and everything you need to catch backcountry corn skiing at its prime. As ...

Most skiers use poles. These handy spears are key to a successful turn, and make balancing while skiing—and navigating flat areas—much easier. Like any part of the mountainous kit needed to go skiing, ...

For decades, heli-skiing or heli-boarding have been the Holy Grail for experts in the sports, the ultimate luxury experience (both sports will be combined and collectively called heli-skiing from now ...

For many parents the idea of whisking your family off to the mountains one winter and learning to ski is a potent daydream. But it’s also strewn with both potential pitfalls and actual physical falls ...

Skiing in the backcountry can look a number of different ways. Anything from skiing out a gate at a resort for a quick backcountry lap to a short ski tour for some low-angle pow turns an all-day ...

In skiers' parlance, uphill skiing is another term for ski touring. Oftentimes, the phrase is used by ski areas to denote ski touring that happens within the avalanche-controlled boundaries of a ski ...

Skiing is an intimidating sport. It’s got a ton of barriers to entry (cost, time, sheer amount of gear), the people who are good at it are really good at it, and a bad day downhill skiing can result ...

Evie Carrick is a writer and editor who’s lived in five countries and visited well over 50. She now splits her time between Colorado and Paris, ensuring she doesn't have to live without skiing or L'As ...

Ski touring is skiing uphill and then—here’s the best part—skiing back downhill. Thanks to specialized equipment, participants can use their skis to “walk” up the mountain, even on surprisingly steep ...

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A great ski vacation can put a big smile on everyone in the family's face. These are some great places to go. There are a lot of travel websites these days, big and small, putting out lists, and many ...