By Victor Epand

I’ve been skiing since I was eleven years old and I love it. I participate both downhill and cross-country skiing, and I refuse to be drawn into debates over which is better. They’re both wonderful pastimes, and they both have their advantages. As to drawbacks, however, there is one that is common to both forms of skiing: the cold. Like it or not, skiing is a winter sport (unless you live in Dubai and frequent their indoor ski slope). And if you’re like me and you get cold easily, you tend to lose all feeling in your hands and feet. Needless to say, such a development can make skiing both difficult and painful. The logistics of maintaining tolerable feeling in your extremities while skiing can be formidable, but I have managed to pick up a few tips over the past seventeen years. So here, for the benefit of my cold-blooded brethren (and I mean that in the nicest possible way), is what I have learned.

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