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5 Easy Snowboard Tricks to Master
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Ready to upgrade your snowboarding skills? Once you get down the mountain, you might set your sights on learning some tricks. You don’t have to spin through the...
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How to Get Better at Skiing: 5 Ways to Improve Your Skills
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Do you dream of slicing down the mountain like a pro, landing a jump off a big bank of snow, or hitting the advanced slopes for even bigger drops and descents? ...
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What Is Freestyle Snowboarding?
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Snowboards were made to catch air. With a bit of momentum and enough of an incline, you and your board can take flight as you master a range of elevated tricks. Such is ...
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Ski Safety 101: 7 Tips for Staying Safe on the Slopes
Depending on your experience level, the idea of hitting the slopes will either get your blood pumping or produce a twinge of anxiety. Approximately 600,000 people get injured skiing annually in the...
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5 Best Gifts for Someone Who Likes to Ski
Knowing someone who likes to ski can make holiday shopping a breeze. Winter athletes need a lot of gear and equipment to enjoy the activities they love, so you shouldn’t have to go too far out of y...
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What to Bring on a Ski Trip
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Ski vacations require seemingly endless planning and coordination as you and your loved ones make your way to and down the slopes — and you can never be too prepared. Yo...
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Ski Slope Ratings Explained
Every piste ski slope is rated by experience and difficulty. You can try runs designed for beginner, intermediate and advanced skiers at any significant park, but what do these rankings mean, and h...
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A Guide to Off-Piste Skiing
When experienced skiers need a challenge, they head off-piste. Skiing on untouched snow lets you explore natural areas beyond what you’d find at a traditional park or resort. Instead of racing down...
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How to Snowboard in Powder
Snowboarders dream of leaving their mark on a mountain of freshly fallen snow. Some travel thousands of miles worldwide chasing those puffy ice crystals collectively known as powder. However, ridin...
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What to Wear Skiing and Snowboarding
U.S. skiing and snowboarding participation rates in 2023 were the highest recorded in over a decade. Millions of people of all ages are hitting the slopes for the first time. If you’re new to winte...
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How to Carve When Skiing
Carving is the parallel parking of turning on skis. It’s a fluid, radiant motion that lights up the track and brings the audience to its heels. The pros seamlessly weave S-shaped spirals around hil...
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How to Ski Moguls: 5 Expert Tips
For ski enthusiasts, nothing stirs both excitement and dread like moguls, the potholes of winter sports. They make for some of the trickiest terrain for downhill skiers and have become the centerpi...
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The Five Best Mountain Biking Trails in North Carolina
North Carolina boasts a vibrant mountain biking community thanks to its diverse terrain. From the Smoky Mountains and Pisgah National Forest in the west to the Outer Banks in the east, the state's ...
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The Four Best Mountain Biking Trails in Oregon
If you love taking jumps, climbing/descending hills and tackling diverse terrain, Oregon is the state for you for mountain biking. It’s the ninth largest in the country, with an average elevation o...
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A Beginner's Guide to Downhill Mountain Bike Racing
Every second counts when you’re racing downhill. Riders often falsely assume that climbing hills is more challenging than descending. Gravity can work to your advantage, giving your legs a break on...
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Bikepacking 101: Everything You Need to Know About Bike Camping
Bikepacking is a combination of biking and camping. It allows you to sleep under the stars in remote areas you can’t reach in a car, including vast state and national parks. You can travel farther ...
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The Five Best Mountain Biking Trails in California
With its pristine lakes, towering peaks and diverse terrain, California packs in more nature than any other state. It’s home to 3,427 miles of coastline, mountains over 14,000 feet high and expansi...
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The Three Best Mountain Biking Trails in Colorado
Colorado, a state that's not just growing in population but also in popularity among mountain bikers, offers a unique blend of adventure and convenience. Determined cyclists from all over the count...
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How to Train for Skiing
Skiing is excellent exercise, putting the body’s biggest muscles to the test. But expect to do a lot of huffing and puffing on the sidelines if you’re not used to being physically active for hours ...
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How to Choose Your Snowboard Stance
Finding your stance as a snowboarder primarily comes down to trial and error. It all depends on your body type and unique preferences.
Where you place your feet on the board will determine how you...
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The Different Types of Skiing: An Ultimate Guide
There’s more than one way to have fun on a pair of skis. You’ve probably seen riders cruising by on the trail doing all kinds of tricks and stunts. Others keep away from the mountain altogether, pr...
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How to Choose Ski Goggles
Ski goggles are essential to staying safe on the trail. They help you see while shielding your eyes from various obstacles in the wild. With so many styles and brand names out there, finding the ri...
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6 Cool Ski Gear Accessories to Use This Year
More people are using ski tech than ever before. The market for ski equipment is expected to grow at an annual rate of 3.7 percent through 2027, with digital ski tech included as more people realiz...
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How Long Do Ski Helmets Last?
A ski or snowboard helmet is one of the most essential pieces of safety gear for anyone hitting the slopes. Whether you’re carving turns in Colorado or exploring trails in Europe, wearing a helmet ...