Skiing is a difficult enough sport without your feet feeling like they’ve been coal-walking all day. But many skiers go through multiple seasons spent in various states of denial about how their ski boots may be severely limiting their skiing.”If you go to the hill on a busy weekend, I’d…

You’re skiing along, reveling in the crisp mountain air and distinct absence of your cubicle walls, when “WHAM!” — you’re knocked onto the snow.”Sorry dude, I didn’t see you,” someone says from above you, an earbud hanging down from his ear. He (or, yes, she) quickly takes off, leaving you…

Winter Park became the sixth Colorado ski resort to open this morning, when the resort’s lifts started turning at 9 a.m. (Wolf Creek also opened today, bringing the total to seven). Winter Park is running three lifts up the mountain: Arrow, Endeavor, and Gemini. The lifts serve four trails: Larry…

Telemark skiers are a funny breed. How else to explain the passion of people who are pursuing a turn invented in Norway in the 1860s that amounts to genuflecting your way down the hill?…

See more photos below. Skiers flocked to Breckenridge today for opening day, enjoying four runs with three operating lifts, soft snow, clear skies and temps in the 50s.The day began as any good day should: with free pancakes. The pancake/waffle breakfast at the Bergenhof, at the bottom of the Colorado…

[jump] On Saturday, the Basin opened the Norway lift, offering top-to-bottom skiing via Lenawaee Face and Dercum’s Gulch on the upper mountain, and Ramrod and High Noon on the lower mountain. All of the trails are intermediate runs. Skiers raced to be the first ones to get up Norway on…