Dear reader, It’s a common refrain around our office that Cross Country Skier is the uncontested, leading English-language cross country ski magazine in the world. Sure, we believe that we make a pretty darn good… Read More »Subscribers Keep Us Pushing Forward
Dear readers, contributors and partners, Stepping off the skintrack at the base of the Glacier du Chardonnet, I ask the indomitable Gordy Skoog, “What’s Plan B for making the col if the weather socks in?”… Read More »Plan B: Business as Unusual
Running Swix USA for the past 11 years has given Steven Poulin the opportunity to collect a lot of cool cross country memorabilia. On the wall of the president’s New Hampshire office is a signed… Read More »Chain Reaction: When the Environmental Protection Agency audited Swix/Toko, the fluorinated stuff was just the beginning
As popularity of cross country skiing grew in the 1970s and 1980s Scandinavian brands dominated the market here in the U.S.. From Rottefella bindings to Madshus skis, Nordic nations brought with them not just the… Read More »The Water of Life: American distillers take on the very Nordic apertif, aquavit
The publishers of Cross Country Skier Magazine recently acquired Gunnison, Colorado-based Mountain Flyer, The Mountain Bike Journal. If you love Cross Country Skier and also ride, Mountain Flyer is your quarterly journal of record for… Read More »Cross Country Skier welcomes Mountain Flyer, The Mountain Bike Journal
Dear XCS Community, Now that Height of Land has Cross Country Skier Magazine, I’ve finally got a great reason to go to the Olympics. This opportunity has come together very late in the game and… Read More »Help Cross Country Skier Reach an Olympic Gold Medal (Ceremony)