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Utah Ski Manufacturer DPS Partners with Phantom Glide for Winter Pop-Up in Boulder, CO

DPS Skis, the U.S.-based ski manufacturer pairing aerospace carbon technology with groundbreaking shapes, and Phantom Glide, a permanent, waxless base glide treatment, will be available from October 2023 to March 2024 at Full Cycle in Boulder, CO. Full Cycle, Boulder’s oldest award-winning bike shop, unveils a ski touring-focused ‘shop-in-shop’ concept aimed at meeting the needs of Boulder’s multi-faced endurance athletes. The […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | October 23, 2023
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Incentives Offered For Disposing of Harmful Fluoro Ski Wax in Colorado

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Many skiers and snowboarders care about the environment. Not only has climate change been at the forefront of our minds, but also eliminating toxic chemicals from our environment. Fluoro wax, or polyfluoroalkyl substances, that are commonly used in ski waxes can be toxic to the environment and do not biodegrade. This means as the wax wears off, we are leaving […]

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Avatar photo Brent Glogau | May 2, 2022
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Listen To This: Ski Wax Is Silently Polluting The Mountain

It’s the year 2019 and everybody knows that everything we do has a consequence, at some level, on Planet Earth. We have come a long way in developing awareness about this, we have messed up a couple of times in history, but we are finally starting to realize how important it is to take care of the places we live […]

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Micho | November 8, 2019
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‘Never Wax Again’ – DPS Announces Phantom, a Wax Replacement: One Time Application for Infinite Glide

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Utah based DPS has recently announced Phantom, a new technology that they predict will totally turn the tuning and waxing business on its head. DPS describes it as ‘a permanent base glide treatment’. Developed in collaboration with a team of chemists and engineers from the University of Utah, Phantom is a base coating that you apply just once, lasts the […]

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Steven Agar | November 6, 2017
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