Competitions

The alpine world ski championships garner way less attention than the Olympics. But American skiers are starting to care. By Nathaniel Vinton

Crested Butte’s Gothic Mountain Tour schools a newbie in the skimo game.

The best skiers compete for slopestyle and big-mountain glory.

America’s toughest backcountry ski race starts at midnight in Crested Butte, Colorado, and charges 40 miles north through the rugged heart of the Rocky Mountains to Aspen. When two desk jockeys, coworkers at this magazine, sign up on competing teams, an epic game of one-upmanship unfolds.

The youngest competitor at the Swatch Skiers Cup is going big.

The North American and European competitors will have to wait until at least Wednesday to huck their meat in Switzerland.

Test your mettle in this skimo race outside of Crested Butte, Colorado.

An uphill-skiing noob tests her mettle at Arapahoe Basin’s Rise & Shine Rando series.

Because ski shops need shop rats to do all kinds of grunt work. And we want to reward them.

Thanks to World Cup vet and Hahnenkamm champ Daron Rahlves, the world’s ballsiest brand of ski racing doesn’t take place on some obscure European piste, but in California. Welcome to the Rahlves Banzai Tour.