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How Often Do You Wax Your Skis? (Poll)

We wanted to know how regularly POWDER readers wax their skis, inspiring the topic of our newest Weekly Poll . You can ...
Casper Star-Tribune

Glide wax and maintenance can speed up your Nordic skis

Nordic skiing doesn’t have to be about grueling up hills and slow-moving downward shuffles. With a little TLC on your skis and the right wax, you may find those ups aren’t quite so hard and the downs ...
Westword

Ski Tuning, Part 4: How to Wax your Skis

In this final episode of our four-part series on ski tuning strategies, Matt Hupperts of the Edgeworks in Denver shows you how to hot wax your skis, using a waxing iron and a plastic scraper. On the ...
Outside

The Gear Junkie’s Top 10 Cross-Country Skiing Essentials

“The first high-performance no-wax technology.” That’s the claim with this mohair-equipped classic ski, which trades the hassle of kick wax on the base for inserted strips of synthetic fibers to grip ...
CBC.ca

All about that glide: Volunteers waxing every single ski at championships

The competitors at the Canadian Ski Championships, currently taking place at the Nakkertok Nordic Ski Centre in Gatineau, have been giving it their all. But before they even step on the cross-country ...
WYFF

Meet the wax technician who keeps skis in Olympic shape

Meet Leo Mussi, one of the wax technicians working with the Olympic athletes in PyeongChang. He's originally from Italy and works surgery US Ski Team member Bryce Bennett. The two work closely ...