It’s about 6 hours from the start of the men’s giant slalom in Soelden, Austria and Team America is off to a rocky start, and I don’t mean the conditions. If you’ve dozed off over the last few months, that’s Bode’s new private team. Plagued with hamstring issues early this summer and now a mid-back […]

By Paul Hooge
I don’t mind short road trips; perhaps 500 miles each way is a sane distance. I don’t often fly because you cannot haul a bunch of old or antique skis on planes easily (packaged they may resemble some sort of missile). This September my trip began in crested Butte, Colorado (9250 ft […]

Have you ever cruised the slopes only to find yourself fatigued or cramping half way down the mountain? Enlyten Strips, a new electrolyte product claims to help mitigate these problems. Why are electrolytes important you ask? Electrolytes are important because your muscles (and other cells) use them to maintain voltages across their […]

Every year about this time I feel like a kid in a candy store. I begin thinking about which mountains I’m going to ski, what chance encounters I might have on the lift, the new gear I’m going to test on the slopes and what gear I would like to soon forget…like the snowblades […]

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