A Yukon high school student has been awarded two scholarships after being recognized at the 2025 Canada-Wide Science Fair, ...

Wax your skis and polish your goggles — it’s snow time, and Australia’s ski resorts are raising the bar this winter.

According to an article about the incoming New Hampshire bill, research published in 2023 showed that roughly two-thirds of surveyed skiers and snowboarders use ski wax products that contain PFAS. As ...

This highlights the importance of waxing in this discipline. The system designed by the researchers includes a cart mounted on skis with a load simulating a skier. The cart is connected to a winch, ...

Which ski waxes are best? Similar to goggles or gloves, ski wax is another accessory that is commonly overlooked until it’s too late. However, it’s an essential product if you want to maximize ...

I get to sit back here, relax and scrape skis all day.” Just a few years ago, in preparation for cross-country races like the American Birkebeiner, he’d regularly melt on fluorinated wax for ...

I’m no World Cup ski racer, and I did not do any extensive back-to-back testing, but on snow, I was unable to tell the difference between bases waxed using this tool versus a traditional hot wax ...

TAOS — Brett Shipley, longtime ski and snowboard technician at Adventure Ski Shops in Taos, wasn’t aware certain sectors of his industry for decades used dangerous “forever chemicals ...

For many skiers, learning to wax your own skis is a bit of a rite of passage, a milestone of dedication to the sport. It might seem like a messy, difficult endeavor at first, but follow these six ...

For many skiers, learning to wax your own skis is a bit of a rite of passage, a milestone of dedication to the sport. It might seem like a messy, difficult endeavor at first, but follow these six ...

And throughout every run, or every circuit, they scrape off thin layers of the wax on their skis. The chemicals in that wax then sink into the snow melt and soil. Eventually, they can seep into ...

Certain PFAS are used in ski wax applied to skis and snowboards as lubrication. By making surfaces of ski kit more slippery, skiers can speed up and make smoother turns as they travel from piste ...