HIDDEN VALLEY (KDKA) -- Skiing is a big winter sport, and with Hidden Valley and Seven Springs in our area it's an easy and convenient activity. But if you've never skied before, it can be ...

Michael Lecchino spends his weekends teaching snowboarding, guiding wobbly first-timers down the mountain. He says teaching beginners from the magic carpet rather than the summit has shifted his ...

Get the best of the Magazine’s award-winning stories and features right in your e-mail inbox every Sunday. Sign up here. Fred Rumford learned to ski in 1970, as a 5-year-old at the ski school in Vail, ...

Skiing is an intimidating sport. It’s got a ton of barriers to entry (cost, time, sheer amount of gear), the people who are good at it are really good at it, and a bad day downhill skiing can result ...

If you’ve ever seen one of those nature documentaries where a baby giraffe learns to walk for the first time, you’ll understand what my 3-year-old looked like when he learned to cross-country ski. It ...

After plunking down thousands of dollars for a condo and airfare to some faraway mountains, does anyone really want to spend hundreds more on ski lessons? That depends on whether you want to be a ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... COPPER MOUNTAIN — “Zenlana can ski a straight run and form a wedge with her skis,” read my 6-year-old daughter’s report card after her second day of group ...

The trails are calling! Cross Country Ski Headquarters in Higgins Lake is hosting free beginner ski lessons. Ski lessons are every Saturday and limited to the first 25 people who register the same day ...

Around the country Friday, more than 160 resorts nationwide are hosting deals on beginner lessons to set the Guinness Book of World Record for the largest ski and largest snowboard lesson ever. The ...