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Spring Cleaning

Spring is here whether you like it or not.  Sure, there is plenty of skiing to be done in many parts of the country, but the 2008-2009 racing season is over, and it is time to take care of cleaning up and putting away.  After a long and often exhausting winter of travel and racing, it is easy to throw the skis in the storage closet and start working on your bike.  The winter quickly...

How It’s Made – Base Material

It’s inevitable when two or more skiers are talking tech, the conversation will linger on ski bases: structure, grind, waxing, rilling, etc. If you listen carefully, however, you will notice the conversation is not really about base materials but base preparation. What is the base and how is it made? To learn more, I contacted Crown Plastics (www.durasurf.com) located in Harrison, Ohio. Crown is the manufacturer of the DuraSurf ski and snowboard base materials. Base...