Cross country skiing may be one of the most versatile winter sports, accessible to everyone from 90-year-olds with wood skis and three-pin bindings to Olympic gold medalists, first timers on fish ...

Good news: Skinny skis are for everyone. Unlike alpine skiing that involves expensive lift tickets, pricey gear and mountain-specific geography, cross-country skiing is heaps more accessible. Sure, ...

There a a number of different skiing disciplines, including downhill skiing, backcountry ski touring, Nordic cross-country skiing and Nordic back country skiing, They are all great winter sports and ...

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 ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The City of Madison's parks department and the Madison Nordic Ski Club teamed up on Friday to give people a chance to learn how to cross-country ski. Experienced skiers from MadNorSki ...

It was a good day to get out and cross country ski at Spirit Mountain. About 50 5th graders from Myers-Wilkins spent some time learning the sport. And their instructors are UMD students, who are ...

Jan. 6—Emily Cartwright does all she can to promote Nordic skiing. The former All-American at the University of New Hampshire has developed Nordic clubs for all ages in the Bangor area and her current ...

Cross-country skiing is one of my favorite ways to get a full-body workout during the winter, and I love finding new trails through the Cross Country Ski Areas Association. I suppose that it’s partly ...

What were once basic leather boots stitched onto hard rubber soles have now become sophisticated pieces of technology. The best cross country ski boots have undergone some impressive developments for ...

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 ...