In 2014, Norway was in an uproar. At the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the country’s dominant cross-country ski team wasn’t getting the expected results. Smørebom, which loosely translates to ...

Interest in do-it-yourself ski waxing is on the rise in Central Oregon, say local experts. Maybe that's because local sports shops offer regular no-charge wax clinics, all of which hope to dispel the ...

SANDPOINT, Idaho – The traditional process for waxing skis and snowboards is a long and tedious. It can be very frustrating for competitive skiers who have to wax often. Scott Barksdale, whose ...

In cross-country skiing, the wrong wax can cost you a race, while the right wax can help you reach the podium. This ...

On a slushy, warm day in February, Eric Straubhar buffed the wax on a child’s ski. Straubhar manages the rental shop at Bogus Basin, a ski resort outside Boise, Idaho. He said it had been a few years ...

SALT LAKE CITY — From tree sap and whale blubber to chemically enhanced concoctions of silicon and fluorinated carbon, skiers have long tinkered with treatments to make sticks glide on snow. Stephan ...

CARBONDALE, Colo. — Most of us don’t spend a lot of time waxing our skis, but Peter Arlein isn’t like most. Arlein's spent the last two years working on a rare ski wax that’s made from plants and ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- From the flat, fertile farm fields of Indiana comes the latest innovation in alpine skiing -- a soybean-based ski wax that's kinder to the ski slopes because it's petroleum ...

Ottawa County Parks is offering a Cross-country Ski & Waxing Workshop 2 p.m. Sunday at the Nature Education Center located at Hemlock Crossing County Park. Cross-country skiing is a great winter ...

Montpelier, Vt. • At ski races across the United States, competitors are starting to abandon a type of wax many count on for speed amid concerns it contains toxic chemicals that threatens human health ...