My backpack, with my skis strapped to it, feels like it's pulling me backwards off the mountain.
His company scaled Belvedere, covered in ice and snow, on 19 February 1945, their hickory skis strapped to their shoulders and bayonets fixed on their M1 rifles.
After another hour, it was time to remove the skis, strap them to our packs, and start climbing up a narrow ridge leading to the summit.
Next they'd hike, or "bootpack," skis strapped to their packs, to the top of a subpeak, then ski to a narrow saddle.
Some of my peak experiences, with apologies to Abraham Maslow, have been at a 45-degree angle with skis strapped to my feet.
Especially if they have skis strapped to their feet and are preparing to cheat gravity for as long as possible by launching off what is referred to around here simply as "the big jump".
This year's snow has been a boon for Mr. Galluccio, whose winery embraces the season with an open invitation for people to bring their snowshoes or cross-country skis, strap them on and take to the vineyards.
So we rappelled down, skis strapped to our packs.
He sent a prototype of the Oculus Rift, which used Oakley ski goggle straps and was held together by silver duct tape, to Mr. Carmack, who took it to the E3 games conference and used it to demonstrate one of his games to a small group of attendees.
Do you remember when the snow-sports world seemed as stiff and implacable as those big, rigid skis we strapped to our feet?
Vail Mountain's updates have consistently aimed to please skiers and snowboarders, while the six-block village tries ever harder to satisfy cosmopolitan recreational shoppers, almost a third of whom never snap on skis or strap on a snowboard.
