For many skiers, learning to wax your own skis is a bit of a rite of passage, a milestone of dedication to the sport. It might seem like a messy, difficult endeavor at first, but follow these six ...

In this final episode of our four-part series on ski tuning strategies, Matt Hupperts of the Edgeworks in Denver shows you how to hot wax your skis, using a waxing iron and a plastic scraper. On the ...

In 2014, Norway was in an uproar. At the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the country’s dominant cross-country ski team wasn’t getting the expected results. Smørebom, which loosely translates to ...

Every millisecond counts when an athlete has his or her shot to win the gold at the Olympics. So whether it be Mikaela Shiffrin’s skis for slalom or Chloe Kim’s snowboard for the halfpipe, the art of ...

Nordic skiing doesn’t have to be about grueling up hills and slow-moving downward shuffles. With a little TLC on your skis and the right wax, you may find those ups aren’t quite so hard and the downs ...

ASPEN – Ever wax up your cross-country skis and then proceed to flail on the trail? Should you have waxed with green instead of blue, red instead of purple? And what’s yellow for, anyway? The Aspen ...

In downhill and cross country ski races, where every tenth of a second counts, the wax on the bottom of the ski can mean the difference between winning and struggling. Wax technicians have been ...

SALT LAKE CITY — From tree sap and whale blubber to chemically enhanced concoctions of silicon and fluorinated carbon, skiers have long tinkered with treatments to make sticks glide on snow. Stephan ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- From the flat, fertile farm fields of Indiana comes the latest innovation in alpine skiing -- a soybean-based ski wax that's kinder to the ski slopes because it's petroleum ...

CARBONDALE, Colo. — Most of us don’t spend a lot of time waxing our skis, but Peter Arlein isn’t like most. Arlein's spent the last two years working on a rare ski wax that’s made from plants and ...