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Ski Lifestyle

Trip planning, mountain driving, the vocabulary.

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An outdoor apres-ski bar at dusk with a lit 'Apres-Ski Bar' sign above a wooden chalet counter, garlands and fairy lights strung across the front, a bartender working the counter.

What Does Apres-Ski Mean?

Apres-ski, explained: what the word means, where it came from, what it looks like from Aspen's Ajax Tavern to a Montana tailgate, and how to pace it.
A four-seat detachable chairlift carrying skiers and a snowboarder over a vast snowy mountain range under a clear sky.

Types of Ski Lifts

A plain guide to the ski lifts you actually ride: rope tows, T-bars, fixed and detachable chairs, gondolas, aerial trams, and how capacity is measured.
A vintage black-and-white photo of a skier in a patterned knit sweater carving downhill on long wooden skis with a large basket pole, snow spraying underfoot.

When Was Skiing Invented?

Skiing is older than you think: 5,000 years from Sami hunters to Sondre Norheim to gold-rush longboard racers to the first Vermont rope tow in 1934.