One of life's lessons is that you probably shouldn't try to teach your spouse or child an active sport. It produces impatience, frustration and not infrequently, tears and arguments. Leave it to the ...

Growing up in Iowa, I didn’t have many opportunities to try downhill skiing or snowboarding. (Though I did slide around on small Midwest hills on our yearly high school ski trips, where I saw my ...

No matter when you started, the first time on skis or a snowboard was probably a little daunting. New gear, new motions, contending with the freezing cold — add to that an instructor yelling something ...

Chuckles the groundhog called it: We have several more weeks of winter to go. Might as well embrace the news and hit the slopes. No experience? No problem. Herb Wollowick, supervisor of the Snowhawks ...

TRUCKEE, Calif. — You know the trust fall? Sure you do. One person closes his or her eyes and falls backwards, relying on another, presumably trustworthy person to ...

Flat, sunny Central Florida may seem like an odd place for an indoor ski and snowboard slope. But if you were planning a ski vacation and needed a quick lesson, how would you train in a place where it ...

Ski coach Rob Gallagher demonstrates a technique to Andy Lee during an adult ski lesson at Copper Mountain in Colorado. (Christian Murdock, Colorado Springs Gazette/TNS) Cadence Peterson gets an early ...

Whether it's cruising Colorado's Rockies or the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico, these resorts come Reddit-recommended for beginner skiers.