Talk About Slippery Slopes
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âSteepâ is an undeniably impressive visual spectacle that follows the sport of extreme skiing.
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New technology supercharges dog-sled racing. This is the real polar express. By Aria Pearson from Wired magazine.
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Last February in the Olympic Games in Turin, a new discipline of snowboard cross -- "NASCAR on snow" -- proved to be as exciting and TV ratings-worthy as its early billing.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Mar. 4--TOWN OF MEDARY, Wis. -- Two people were seriously injured Saturday afternoon in a sledding accident after sliding 200 feet into a steep rock quarry.
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The family that stays together, skis together. "What is interesting, for the first time ever we have a three-generation sport," said National Ski Areas Association president Michael Berry . "We're hanging on to the Baby Boomers, we've got their kids, and now their grandkids."
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Ski instructors have long held a peculiar fascination for me. I am captivated by their effortless masculinity (I hope not in a homoerotic way, although I can't be entirely sure). I once stayed in a hotel in the ...
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At the Winter X Games this year there will be a massive jump for a new event in skiing and snowboarding called big air, where new tricks are bound to be attempted.
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Spring blossoms are popping up all over the Austrian Alps. Geneva's official chestnut tree has already sprouted leaves and flowers. And Swedes are still picking mushrooms. The same question is on everyone's minds: Is winter in Europe going to be canceled this year?
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Let's see David Blaine do this. Watch a slippery cephalopod show why its kind are among the great escape artists of the deep.
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An expert frets about the accelerating retreat of glaciers from mountain peaks. With rates up to 60 meters per year, is it time to redefine the term "glacial"?
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By A.C. Snow, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 18--The temperature was hovering around freezing when I spotted on Glenwood Avenue the vanity license tag reading "SKINAKED." A stick-in-the-mud like me could be forgiven for wondering if the driver had actually ever skied naked.
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Snowsports have always been about the newest and the coolest. These days a new question has proponents on both sides in the following argument: Are snowboards or free riding on twin tips the coolest way to hit the slopes?
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By Tom Angleberger   tomangleberger@yahoo.com
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DENVER -- Jack Boettcher loves to cruise the blues. For 50 years, Boettcher has skied the slopes from Snowmass to Vail to Steamboat Springs. These days, he counts among his favorite haunts some smaller resorts that offer plenty of well-groomed intermediate runs -- the &quot;blues.&quot;
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By Keri Brenner, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Feb.
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BEAVER CREEK - Most individuals wouldn&#39;t be able to turn a steering wheel 63 times in less than a minute. Try it on skis. Some racers in Sunday&#39;s Birds of Prey slalom didn&#39;t even make it through the first
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This topic of discussion is usually reserved for spring in Vermont. All week, there has been much ado about mud in Massachusetts. If ever there was an example of media gone amok, it has been the seemingly endless discussion of how mucked up the turf at Gillette Stadium would become after being left naked in the night, subjected to the ...