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Ski design is ever-evolving, but one area where we've seen the most dramatic change is big fat powder skis designed for the ...
Greetings. I loved the recent column about fat skis (“Ski shaming, it’s a matter of fat,” Feb.17 , Aspen Daily News). At 66.5 years old, I've been skiing 20-50 days a year for 46 years, and ...
Powder skis are fat skis designed to lift you up so you can get through deep snow--like really deep, best-day-ever snow. To encourage float and easy steering, powder skis feature wide waists ...
Fat skis are effectively the Ginsu knives of the ski industry. You could make a funny spoof infomercial espousing the benefits of fat skis and their many uses, like a cocktail ski with full-sized ...
We do our annual ski test a bit differently than everyone else. We have 15 testers ski a whole mess of skis over a week in Jackson Hole, then let them pick their favorite ones, in a draft format.
Even with the introduction of fat skis by Atomic a few years earlier, K2 wasn’t convinced that going wider was the future. Instead, the 1990 release of the K2 Extreme went heavy on the marketing ...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp is a fitness fanatic who skis for up to five hours a week. Axios reported he has just 7% body fat – similar to Michael Phelps' at the 2008 Olympics. Karp has been pictured ...
Rent fat tire bikes, cross-country skis and snowshoes in youth and adult sizes. After you pick up your rentals visit the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail, a local favorite, that offers nearly 22 miles ...
The Borealis Fat Bike Worlds return to their birthplace in Crested Butte from Jan. 24-26, marking the event's 10th anniversary, and this year's theme is "Return to the Roots." ...
Carving-oriented skis are typically sorted into recreational and World Cup categories. As you probably guessed, the latter category refers to skis designed with elite alpine racers in mind, not ...
Not every skier needs a fat powder ski in their quiver, but if you're lucky enough to frequent resorts that measure snowfall in feet rather than inches, dive into this list of 2023's best unisex ...