Here too is the first wooden ski made locally in 1900, a very crude effort.

"Let's hope so," Nylan muttered, but he followed her example and, one pole in each hand, slowly slid the left wooden ski forward.

"I think of my poor father using 200-centimeter wooden skis, and there's no wonder he hung them up at 55," Mr. Berry said.

Hunters sometimes rode reindeer, sometimes moved along on wooden skis.

It was another first, but I found the cross-country technique considerably easier than trying to negotiate the mountain with wooden skis.

The Standard was three times as stiff torsionally as wooden skis, which held the edge to the snow much more strongly.

In my youth I tried alpine skiing with a set of hired wooden skis.

This normally consisted of a wooden ski, a leather winter boot, and a cable binding to keep the two together.

He had already been skiing for three years on a pair of his mother's wooden skis.

Head was frustrated with the quality of the clumsy and heavy wooden skis, which made skiing very difficult for beginners.