SILVERTHORNE — A new ski and bike shop, Gore Range Sports, is setting up in Silverthorne. The business will be a ski service shop in the wintertime, focused on backcountry and Nordic skiing, and a ...

It was a gorgeous day for an adventure: the sky was blue and cloudless, there was new snow and I was finally trying out something that had been on my list for a while — backcountry skiing. The lure of ...

FRISCO — When ski resorts suddenly shut down in mid-March, skiers and snowboarders flocked to the backcountry. With lingering uncertainty about resort operations this ski season, backcountry shops are ...

Skiing is skiing, whether you do it with the aid of chairlifts or your leg power, on fat or skinny skis or a snowboard, or with buckle, BOA or lace-up boots. For a recent ski excursion in the woods of ...

In 1987, David Goodman was a fledgling journalist living in Boston when he got a call from the Appalachian Mountain Club. That year, he’d written a piece for Cross Country Skier magazine about the ...

It’s a quiet morning as you glide through the trees of the White River National Forest. You’re locked into your bindings, poles in hand, and you’re so bundled up that you barely notice the ...

When Karen Roth learned a volunteer group was forming to assist the forest service in patrolling the Cameron Pass area on cross country skis, she thought it sounded like fun. It would give her an ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Late at night a cell phone lights up, its ring alerts one of several volunteers from Tahoe Nordic Search & Rescue — a lost skier is in need of help. Though always at the ...

Ready to explore the mountains in winter powered by your lungs and legs? Then, you’ll want to find the best backcountry ski bindings for your needs and goals. Our testing team made up of backcountry ...

Mount Bohemia's reputation certainly precedes it, which was why I finally found myself there last winter, perched high atop the plateau on the northern tip of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. As I took ...

Max Pittman works his way up a ridge near Tofte on a stretch of the Superior Hiking Trail while on a backcountry ski tour with Superior Highland Backcountry. The group is promoting backcountry ...

Every sport has its subcultures, and for skiing, it’s undoubtedly the wide world of telemarking. You may be surprised to learn that telemark skiing precedes alpine skiing by about half a century.