The calendar may still say it’s fall, but we all know that winter is coming. It won’t be too much longer before the mercury begins to drop and the snow and ice start falling from the sky. But that ...

Turn any shoe into a snow shoe.

Whether you’re enjoying a snowy hike in the mountains or simply walking to and from work in icy conditions, you’re going to need a pair of Yaktrax to prevent you from slipping. These innovative ...

Roaring Fork Valley residents have had plenty of chances to fall on their keisters this winter. The delays between snowstorms have consistently allowed the snow to compact and turn to ice. Walking my ...

As most cyclocross enthusiasts can relate to, after the last race of the season is over I go through a mix of emotions. Half of me is ready to hang up the bike after a long season, but the other half ...

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The Cool Tools weblog features Yaktrax, grippy rubber-bandy things that snap onto the bottom of your shoes for a slip-proof walk through snow and ice. Yaktrax work like snow chains on your car tires.

Those few weeks in December changed everything. Car, previously good, became bad on steep, icy hills. Down there, at the bottom, even brave, burly beasts with 4-wheel-drive and chains lay bruised and ...

October 30, 2005 We put snow chains on our cars to give us traction on ice and snow, so this is one of those ideas we’ll accept fairly readily. Indeed, the Yaktrax is such a good idea that it was ...