For some folks, watching the Olympics is turning a passing interest in snowboarding into a fever-pitch excitement about the sport. If all the snow we’ve been having makes you want to try out a ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)– Many ski resorts opened for the season at the beginning of December. Since then, Adaptive sports groups around the Capital Region have started providing winter sports lessons at ...

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 ...

Last month my 14 year old daughter Leah and I took a snowboarding lesson at Okemo Mountain Resort in central Vermont. Tom Buchanan was our instructor. Last month while at Jackson Gore/ Okemo I took a ...

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 ...

Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe is set to host a free introductory snowboard experience for children aged 7 to 12 this Saturday, Jan. 11. The event will run from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., providing young participants ...

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 ...