21.   Picabo Street pines for the old days when skis were long and straight and not so grabby and easy to turn.

22.   Shaped skis are shorter and both skis are used to turn, which leads to added control and flexibility.

23.   Shorter skis make turning on any kind of snow easier because there is less ski to redirect.

24.   Ski for Light is a cross-country skiing program for people who are visually impaired.

25.   Ski is for the rich heading to Telluride and for kids looking for a way out of Adidas track suits.

26.   Skis are shorter and wider.

27.   Standing in this department, you might think ski was an inescapable element for fall.

28.   Super-sidecut skis are shorter, and curve far more radically from tip to center to tail than regular skis.

29.   The question the last year or so is not whether shaped or parabolic skis are for real, but where are they taking the sport?