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If you've ever looked at an ice crystal though a loupe, you know that snow science is a complicated, multifaceted field, with an overwhelming amount to learn. In the past, [...]

IT'S A CRISP OCTOBER afternoon in Putney, Vt., and Olympic cross-country skier Kris Freeman has already completed the first of his two daily workouts. He's staying at the home of [...]

Progress Methodically 'No matter how dialed one pass in the course may feel, bumping up to the next speed or line length can completely change the game, sending you back-to [...]

Not long ago, skiing came in two varieties: lift-served resort cruising and self-powered backcountry turn-earning. The chasm between the two was vast and rarely crossed. Today, backcountry purists continue to [...]

Billy Demong is the owner of a very special machine. This machine can rocket down an icy runway at over 100 kilometers (60 miles) an hour. It can glide across [...]

On a winter morning in August at the Portillo ski resort, high in the Chilean Andes, American downhiller Daron Rahlves stretches his hamstrings and tries to ignore his nemesis, Hermann […]

Six athletes who hope to compete in the skiing and snowboarding events at the 2002 Winter Olympics trained at Carrabassett Valley Academy in western Maine. The facility costs $24,000 for a year, and many of the student athletes learn about life in addition to their sport.

What's wrong with this picture, I wonder to myself? It us crunch time at thee quadrennial PSIA Demo Team tryouts -- the final minutes of the longest week in skiing [...]

If you're at all like me, you've been going to the gym and working out for years. Weeks before last ski season, you did the killer quad, ab, and calf [...]

If it's your first time in a racecourse, you're probably wondering what to do. You may be nervous. If so, the first thing to do is take a few deep [...]

When you imagine what it takes to train for championship titles, You probably visualize daily, powerful, agonizing work. outs. There's no denying it: Top-ranked skiers train hard, and often got […]

Nina Kemppel has been hailed as one of America's best cross-country skiers. Currently in training, Kemppel is religiously keeping herself fit as she tries for the gold in cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

The National Cross Country Ski Education Foundation (now known as the National Nordic Foundation) is investing in the talents of young American Nordic ski racers and the coaches who train [...]

Skiing is at once deceptively simple and exceedingly complicated. Its basic movements--flexing, extending, tipping, twisting--are easy enough to understand and perform independently. But coordinating them into the multidirectional movement patterns [...]

Byline: Teya Vitu World-class moguls and halfpipe skiers are expected to do Winter Olympic training in Sun Valley in November and January, officials said. That will be the first reward [...]

Skiers should begin weight-training exercises from four to eight weeks prior to beginning the ski season. Skiers should train with weights at least three times a week. Specific exercises are described.

When slopes are buried under four feet of snow, the gym is the last place you want to be. Lucky for you, an expanding body of scientific evidence shows that […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Moguls are like snowflakes: No two are the same. Each has its own size and shape, and that's what makes bump skiing a challenge. The trick is to […]

One of the more physically demanding winter sports, Nordic skiing combines a satisfying rhythmic motion with equally pleasant surroundings. Whether you opt for the classic kick and glide, back-country telemarking [...]

Biomechanically optimal technique is a central factor not just in energy efficiency but also in the basic ability of the athlete to generate speed. To the extent one sport shares [...]