Short, fat skis with free-heel bindings and built-in climbing skins are luring a growing number of winter trekkers into a sport Nils Larsen calls “skishoeing.” “Adults step out on these and feel like ...

Don Portman, veteran Methow Valley skiing instructor, heads downhill through the woods on Hok skis. Nils Larsen of Curlew introduces a woman to going downhill Altai Hok skis and, instead of poles, a ...

In an office nestled amongst the rolling pine-perfumed hills of north-central Washington, not far from the Canadian border, Nils Larsen, a veteran of the ski world for the better part of four decades, ...

Altai Skis had an edge on the other companies who tinkered with the concept. “We really believe in this type of skiing,” Larsen said. The first Hoks were sold to consumers in 2011. The glued-in, nylon ...

That is, I’d rather run 50k than ski it. The simplicity of lacing up and heading out has always been my bias. The rub? I like to play in my sandbox all year long. So I’ve got a small army of skis ...

The skier managed to use his skills to get back up again after a mistake and fall, but not quite in the same position as he expected, but vertically. This footage was filmed by Jiang Hao, in Altai, ...

Slanbek Shahash (right) is the fourth generation in his family to make horsehair skis in Altay prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo/Xinhua] The people of the Altai ...

TONASKET, Wash. (AP) - Short, fat skis with free-heel bindings and built-in climbing skins are luring a growing number of winter trekkers into a sport Nils Larsen calls “skishoeing.” “Adults step out ...