Wendy Fisher is a former Olympian, a Crested Butte World Extremes champion, and a mother of two. The Crested Butte resident took her first real hiatus from competitive skiing when she had her first son. But now she’s getting her strength back. Rehabbing from a knee surgery, we hit the gym with Wendy in Crested Butte.

Every winter, hundreds of big-mountain athletes vie for spots on the Freeskiing World Tour, a competition circuit hosted by the International Freeskiers Association. Online registration opens today and tomorrow for this year's stops in Revelstoke, Telluride, Crested Butte, Kirkwood, and Snowbird.

Enjoy these five drinks from five ski town bars. Bring Advil.

MSI Ninja Dex Mills wins Backcountry.com Sickbird Award

Max Mancini's tragic accident last year inspired him to start an Adaptive Sports Center Camp for Children Living with Illness

Celebrating its 10th year, the Subaru Freeskiing World Tour remains the longest running competitive Big Mountain Freeskiing tour with $20,000 cash per World Tour stop

The economy is in the dumps, but that shouldn’t stop you from praying for the next big dump. You may be unemployed and eating cardboard for all we know. But at least resorts across America have woken up to the reality and dug deep to keep us skiing. Here are the best deals we could find.

Ranked by the readers of Skiing Magazine.

Ranked by the readers of Skiing Magazine

Kaylin leads teammates Hailey Duke and Stacey Cook onto the Coronet Peak podium.