To buy or rent the skis, that is the question
Many skiers learn to ski on rental equipment. Renting equipment is an excellent way for skiers to get out on the slopes and decide if they enjoy skiing before making a financial commitment to purchase their own ski equipment. The big question many novice and recreational skiers ask is “When should I stop renting skis and buy my own?”

Jarden gives sales outlook, will buy back shares
Jarden Corp., which makes consumer products ranging from coffee makers to snow skis, forecast fourth-quarter revenue slightly above analysts' expectations and said it would make a tender offer to buy back ...

Outside Eats: Fat and happy thanks to winter carts Skinny Skis Café and Dad’s Concessions
Kirsten Fletcher and Monte Wornath are geniuses. Maybe they’d score off the charts on an IQ test, then again maybe not, but the two friends conceived one of the best ideas for a local business that we’ve heard of. The pair, recognizing that intense hunger always follows winter recreating, got permits for and parked a small trailer at Virginia Meissner Sno-Park to feed and nourish the tired and ...

Tale of lost ski equipment has happy ending
After a full morning of skiing at Ski Santa Fe, we stopped for lunch at its mid-mountain restaurant. We leaned our skis against the chest-high steel ski racks, ate lunch in the sunshine at one of the outside picnic tables, cleared our table and walked about 15 feet to the ski racks. "Someone took my skis and poles," said Bob Hughes. "I know I left them right here."

Airline baggage fees boost ski rental profits
Faced with the increasing cost of transporting equipment, many vacationers are opting to rent the latest ski and snowboarding gear for their stay at a big mountain.