ASPEN – Ever wax up your cross-country skis and then proceed to flail on the trail? Should you have waxed with green instead of blue, red instead of purple? And what’s yellow for, anyway? The Aspen ...

At ski races across the United States, competitors are starting to abandon a type of wax many count on for speed amid concerns it contains toxic chemicals that threatens human health and could reach ...

“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 ...