It’s called skijoring, and it’s nothing new. For centuries, the Sami people of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia harnessed themselves to skis and then to reindeer for faster transportation. By 1928, ...

LEADVILLE — The first weekend in March marked the 77th running of the wildly fast and extremely wild Leadville Skijor, a high-octane happening that's the result of pairing cowboy culture with ...

Crowds and thrill seekers gathered in Leadville over the weekend for the annual skijoring event. Skijoring is a melding of rodeo and skiing in which a a horse and rider tow a skier holding a rope ...

Thousands of people poured into the small mountain town of Leadville, Colorado, on March 1 and 2 to witness a 77-year-old tradition of skijoring.

Leadville organizer Duffy Counsell, left, poses with his son, Brennan, 21, who competed this weekend in the city's 77th annual event. Skijoring, 48-year-old Duffy says, 'is the most nerve-wracking ...

Entry is free. Leadville Ski Joring: March 1-2 in downtown Leadville. Entry is free. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, The Adventurist, to get outdoors news sent straight to your inbox.

Every winter, thousands of people converge on the old mining town of Leadville, Colorado, high in the Rocky Mountains — elevation 10,158 feet — lining downtown’s main street and packing the saloons to ...

Leadville hosted its 76th annual Ski Joring competition, one of the longest continuous running skijoring events in the world, and one which has helped bolster the town through boom-and-bust mining ...

Skijoring is particularly popular in Poland and Switzerland, as well as in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana in the U.S. Five years ago, the sport fielded about 350 teams of riders, skiers, and ...

A skijoring team competes in Leadville, Colo., on March 2, 2024. Both riders and skiers say the crashes, the speed, the raucous crowd and the camaraderie make skijoring what it is.