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Turns out, just lifting and running all fall won't get you entirely ready for ski season. You need to stretch to improve strength and flexibility. Pro skier Forrest Coots shows you how.

Check out the gallery for images on how to correctly complete the stretching exercises that are part of pro skier, Forrest Coots' training regiment.

It's about time someone brewed beer specifically for skiers. We make a visit to Colorado's Upslope Brewery.

Telemark skier Josh Madsen has always been in front of the camera. But now, the Salt Lake City-based skier is getting behind the lens. The tour for his new movie starts next week.

A battle over the voice of Warren Miller brings the case to the courts.

An annual gathering of athletes, filmmakers, and ski industry personalities in Aspen, Colorado.

Pro big-mountain skier Cody Townsend won't tell you where this 2,000-foot couloir is located.

Socci, Chamonix, Squaw Valley, Verbier. Not a bad list of places to travel. If you're competing on the Freeride World Tour, that's exactly we're you'll be headed in 2010.

Drop into Jackson Hole's Corbet's Couloir.

Name the resort pictured and win Axio Max & Mini Watches!

Rent a luxury home or catered chalet in Steamboat or Breckenridge.

The ski season has officially started (well, kind of)

Huge Selection, Low Prices, and Great Service

How dropping Skiing a letter can get you free stuff and save our sport.

Condos, homes, and great amenities in Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado.

Austria’s Londoner Pub: Where World Cup downhillers go to unwind. Daron Rahlves gives us his take on the legendary post-race party.

You Can Get There From Here

Gannett, a world champion freeskier, launched the Global Cooling Tour when she sustained a career-ending injury. She also works on former V.P. Al Gore’s Climate Project. That's why we're starting our list of High-Country Heroes with her.

The premiere of Teton Gravity Research's new movie Re:Session is this Saturday in Jackson, Wyoming. Sammy Carlson will be there. Will you?

Locals are invited to help glade a new run honoring the ebullient ski bum.

When it first debuted, Rottefella's New Telemark Norm boot and binding system wasn't quite perfect. Now, it's getting pretty darn close.

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It’s the secret of southern California: Less than 50 miles from downtown Los Angeles sits legitimate, steep, big-mountain skiing. It should be busy. Only Mount Waterman got on the wrong side of the Forest Service, took the life of one of its owners, changed hands, and locked out the public. Can a former surf bum rescue it?

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Catch big air with a soft landing at Windham Mountain

The small screen is revolutionizing the way skiers chase snow, ride lifts and even share their adventures. But is this something to tweet about?

He has difficulty crossing the street and sometimes he accidentally walks into walls. He nearly took himself out on his own barbecue. But Kevin Alderton, who has just four percent vision, owns the world record for blind speed skiing.

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Best meat-infused cocktail, shortest lift lines, cheapest digs, and more. The rest of the awards from our 2010 Resort Awards.

Including advice from Seth Morrison, Chris Davenport, and Alaskan heli-ski guide Kirsten Kremer, we offer up a crucial list of facts and tips you need to know before you head out of bounds.

Fifty-four people died in avalanches in the U.S. and Canada last season. But backcountry skiing doesn’t have to be dangerous. It begins with education, decent ski skills, and humility. Beyond that, the more you go, the more you’ll learn.

This icebreaker, executed properly, can lead to a season full of ski dates—or at least a reason to clean the hot tub.

Ranked No. 11 overall by readers in our 2010 Resort Guide

We've tallied the results from our reader survey. And thrown in a few of our favorites. Drum roll please...Announcing the winners of this year's resort awards: the best park, powder, steeps, backcountry access, trees, parties and more.

A spectacular six-bedroom, six-bath private home overlooking downtown Aspen.

Don't bring your nice shoes.

Mind blowing features for the tall-t set.

The champagne is so crisp you won’t even care about the pain the morning after.

Beaver Creek’s Finest Condominiums and Private Homes.

The heavens really open up in Utah. These neighboring resorts at the end of Little Cottonwood Canyon typically get more than 600 inches a year.

Perfecting your avalanche rescue skills before you head into the backcountry can mean the difference between life and death.

Don't let the quaint New England charm fool you. Stowe can be one of the toughest mountains in the country.

With the exception of Whistler Blackcomb, no other resort comes close to matching Jackson for easy access to back- and sidecountry lines.

Like the Olympics it’s about to host, Whistler Blackcomb is big, hyped, and full of underage Asian women on drugs.

Not that you needed an excuse to go ride. But it turns out, mountain biking counts as ski conditioning too. Jeremy Benson tells us why and suggests a few good trails to check out.

Lodging at Snowbasin and Powder Mountain ski areas.

Supporting your ski town, one beer at a time.

The Whistler ski photographer debuts his first gallery exhibit.

Get in shape for ski season using Forrest Coots' dryland program. These photos will help show you how.

Put down the beer. Summer is over, and it’s time to get serious about shaping up for ski season. A little hard work now will keep you strong and healthy all winter long. Big-mountain skier Forrest Coots shows you his dryland training.

This New Zealand competition includes a big-mountain comp, a freestyle comp, and a Chinese downhill. Winner Ted Davenport tells us it was "like a badass skiing dream."

Non-sissy sunscreen. Because cancer sucks.

A new 1,700-mile bike ride raises money and awareness for skiers Shane McConkey, Billy Poole, and Riley Poor.

Consider where you ski most, factor in your ability, and pick the category that suits you best. Use the category descriptions below to examine the ski-width ranges and averages within each category of skis we review.

One skier’s lawsuit sidelines search-and-rescue teams in BC.

Announcing the winners of the first annual Skiing Magazine awards for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence in film.

Finally, an air bag for jibbers.

Griffin Post, competing at the Freeskiing World Tour stop in La Parva, Chile, says the venue is good to go.

How to Properly Spend $1,100 in Idaho.

A debate over guides causes a rift in the BC heli- and cat-skiing community.

Colorado’s Silverton Mountain offers heli drops from $150

Art gallery, crime scene, and ski store—all in one.

An art gallery, crime scene, and ski store—all in one.

In 1996, legendary big-mountain skier Trevor Petersen was killed skiing in Chamonix, France. In 2005, his 15-year-old son Kye went to Chamonix in with his dad’s friends to ski the line that killed his father. The film that documents his experience, The Edge of Never, comes out this fall.

A new documentary about the legendary—and recently controversial—Jackson Hole Air Force.

Inbounds descents down powderfields up to five miles long dump you in the middle of the Tyrolean frescoes and church steeples of a too-cute ski village.

Skiing in Japan is so deep, it’s no wonder why Sweetgrass Productions decided to spend the entire winter there filming. Their movie, Signatures, debuts this fall. Here are images from their winter. Photos by Michael Brown.

On going pro at 13, Chamonix, and his father’s legacy.

Last year, writer Tim Neville decided to do what many dream of but never have the guts to see through: pack up his tidy life in Bend, Oregon, and relocate to Europe with his pregnant wife and their cat, Puddy. He put their belongings in a shipping container and e-mailed to say he was moving to Bern, Switzerland. We were intrigued. But it wasn’t until the dream went to hell that we hired him to write It’s Always Sunny in Switzerland—a column in six parts.

Tim Neville makes his first turns in Switzerland. Alone.

Casper Bowl, a 180-degree cirque of 1,200- vertical-foot cliff-littered chutes, opened in the winter of 1997. Since then, it’s become one of Jackson Hole’s many proving grounds and the venue for numerous freeskiing comps.

The Jon Olsson Super Sessions is a competition unlike anything we've seen—athletes, cinematographers, and photographers judged on the quality of their art and style of their skiing. Photographer Mattias Fredriksson was there to capture the event for us. Turns out, he also won the photo category.

Skiing's first leading man leaves a lifelong legacy.

Toni Sailer raced to seven World Championship medals in an improbable 24 months—a record that still stands.

An ecocentric option that is worth the trip

Family friendly with a host of amenities

Luxurious and refined with a rich history

More like a stylish apartment than a hotel room.

It may be August, but that doesn't mean there isn't powder skiing to be had somewhere in the world. Here's a collection of shots taken from La Parva and Valle Nevado, Chile, by Drew Stoecklein and Spencer Francey.