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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The chief reason I ski on fat skis is because they’re good for me in all conditions. I have a quiver of one. I can carve on them, I can go fast, and they’re stable.
Short, fat skis with free-heel bindings and built-in climbing skins are luring a growing number of winter trekkers into a sport Nils Larsen calls "skishoeing." "Adults step out on these and feel ...
K2 Hellbent Perhaps one of the most truly iconic skis ever made, K2’s Hellbent first showed us how ridiculous powder ski design could get in 2007. With dimensions coming in at a truly voluptuous ...
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." Promoters are ...
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 ...
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 ...