There are two styles of cross-country skiing: classical and freestyle. In classical races, skiers use the traditional straight striding technique and do not deviate from distinct parallel tracks. For ...

who use skis made for a shuffling stride within tracks. It’s typically the go-to style of cross-country skiing for beginners. If a trail is listed as packed, or rolled, then it is usable for ...

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is embracing the snowy spring up north and grooming its cross-country ... but no tracks were set. The Grand Marais Ski Trails (except for Trail D) are groomed ...

Skating-- The fastest cross-country skiing stride, which was developed by long-distance ski racers. Leave one ski in the track while pushing the other ski out to the side and simultaneously double ...

The Fischer Spider 62 Crown Xtralite Cross-Country Skis with TURNAMIC Bindings can do it all. They’re narrow enough to fit in the track, but stable and durable enough for moderate backcountry ...

Slow cookers are filled with soups of the day. A ski-loving dog named Suzie wags as you come through the door. When this cross-country ski center opened 30 years ago, “We were the only ones that ...

In American skiing circles, he gets compared to Steve Prefontaine, the mustachioed track star of the 1970s ... for its first Olympic medal in cross-country skiing since Bill Koch won the silver ...