It is one of those products that seems too good to be true — except in this case it’s winning over hardcore skiers, snowboarders and ski-tuning experts. A new, waxless base treatment product called ...
The perfect wax job may help skiers in the halfpipe or on the race course, but it has the potential to cause trouble for professional wax technicians, who inhale fumes as they melt wax onto ski bases.
MONTPELIER, Vt. – 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 threaten human health ...
On a slushy, warm day in February, Eric Straubhar buffed the wax on a child’s ski. Straubhar manages the rental shop at Bogus Basin, a ski resort outside Boise, Idaho. He said it had been a few years ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A new study from the United Kingdom shows how large amounts of PFAS are being spread across ski slopes all across the world. A study by the James Hutton Institute analyzed ...