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Photo essay: L.A. artists show us their Star Shots
Sign up to get The Wild sent weekly to your inbox. Welcome, readers of The Wild. Two words: uphill skiing. Sounds crazy, right? The sport, also known as skinning or ski mountaineering, has been around for awhile. Now it’s booming because it keeps skiers and boarders away from crowds and off ski lifts, ideal for these socially distant times. Uphillers, as they’re sometimes called, use “skins” that cover the bottom of their skis to tromp up a slope — a super-tough, lung-busting workout — and then do a downhill run. Snowboarders do the same thing with split boards, which come apart ...