The type of skiing you’re undertaking will determine the type of pole you require, determining its weight, strength, flexibility and style. There’s also plenty of opportunity for a personal touch.

Let’s take a moment to admire the unassuming hero of our powder days: the ski pole. Ski poles are the uncelebrated champion of skiing.They aren’t as critical as ski boots or bindings and ...

The main opponent of two-pole skiing was an Austrian ski teacher Mathias Zdarsky. As the author of the world’s first published book of ski instruction, the Lilienfelder Skilauf Technik in 1896 ...

But until you have a healthy base of snow covering logs, stumps and saplings, tree runs can be a risky affair. Always ski with a buddy in the trees. Tree wells kill people every year in North America.

1. Steamboat Ski Resort, Colorado. If you ask a Coloradan where their favorite tree skiing is, odds are reasonably good they’ll mention Steamboat.Evenly spaced trees and rolling slopes make for a ...

With the Colorado Kids’ Ski Passport, Christy Sports shops offer two free days of rental ski gear for children, including skis, boots and poles. “That’s another big piece of it for us ...

Skiers propel themselves by gliding one ski forward on the track and pushing with a ski pole in the opposite hand. You can start by just shuffling the skis forward to get used to the motion before ...

Best ski poles for backcountry skiing: Leki Guide Lite 2. Heather Balogh Rochfort/CNN Underscored. The Leki Guide Lite 2 poles offer the coveted trifecta of any backcountry ski pole: ...