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, ...

This story originally appeared in the print magazine POWDER 2026 Photo Annual. Copies are still available while supplies last. Click here to get yours. And yet here I am, on the side of a slalom ...

There's one thing every person in America knows about skiing, regardless of whether they've ever clicked into a pair of bindings—it's expensive. Skiing has never been positioned as an affordable ...

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Sometimes, even proficient powder skiers have trouble when the snow piles up higher than 10-12 inches, or when it is heavier than Vail’s typical champagne fluff.This is partly due to equipment. Those ...

They might not admit it, but there's no denying that skiers were way gnarlier back in the '70s and '80s, especially when it came to pioneering lines far beyond the reaches of ski resorts. Since skiing ...