Handmade skis pass the test for Colville teen - Sun, 05 Feb 2012 PST
Elise Loggers deserves an “A” simply for the idea she proposed to fulfill her required senior project at Colville High School. She could have stoked energy on an assignment destined for a teacher’s trash bin. Instead, she teamed with a Spokane ski maker to build custom alpine boards that will satisfy the school’s short-term criteria – and fulfill Loggers’ deep powder research for years to come.

It's all downhill for area skier
Breaking a sweat: Adept area alpine skier Abigail Murer, 15, tells how she navigates the slopes.

Whatever it takes
Active Outdoors Making the best of a weird winter Embed multimedia (photos, galleries, audio, map):  020312timjones pic My sweetheart Marilyn and I were Alpine skiing at Burke Mountain in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom the other day and saw three different skiers using Alpine Touring gear to skin up the sides of the slopes instead of riding the lifts. AT gear (similar to Telemark gear) uses lighter ...

Lone Peak piloting social media for Alpine district
HIGHLAND -- Lone Peak High School in Highland is a small part of a big movement.

The Science of Ski Wax: There's a lot more to it than melting a candle over the base of your ...
You hear it all the time. What kind of wax are you using? Or, I need to wax my skis. Ski wax. We know we need it, plenty of people neglect it, while others pontificate about it ad nauseum. But why, exactly, does it matter and how does it work? Magic? More like science; chemistry and physics, more specifically. In this case, science is packaged in the form of a petroleum-based product called ...