Poles for skate skiing should be the same height as your nose or ears. While the term 'Nordic skiing' is used as an umbrella term for all cross-country skiing, technically, it describes skate skiing ...

Cross-country (XC) skis, though, which explicitly aren’t designed for downhill or aerial use, are an exception to that rule. Or, they were, at least, until freeskier and Norwegian Olympian Birk ...

Finding the right equipment for winter sports is often a big enough battle on its own. Cross country skiing requires boots, skis, and poles, but frigid temperatures also necessitate hat, gloves, coat, ...

Unique variation on skiing Cross-country skiers use longer, thinner skis than downhill skiers and rely on their own momentum to get around. Poles help cross-country skiers traverse terrain in a ...

Sweden's Frida Karlsson powered away in the final kilometre to win the first-ever women's 50km mass start at the Nordic Ski ...

Poles for skate skiing should be the same height as your nose or ears. While the term 'Nordic skiing' is used as an umbrella term for all cross-country skiing, technically, it describes skate ...