Labels:text | footwear | clothing | skiing | screenshot | person OCR: Cross-Country Skiing Picture a skier in slick skintight leggings with neon-pink stripes racing past you on short high-tech skating skis. Up ahead, an instructor wearing black stretch pants, a nylon windbreaker, and dark goggles digs her metal-edged skis into the snow, accomplishing a nearly perfect telemark turn. Behind her, another skier, dressed in wool knickers and a fisherman's sweater, glides along on machine-set tracks, basking in the sunshine and breathing deep the dry, cold air. Scenes like this one, which you'll see at cross-country ski areas across the United States, say volumes about how the sport has grown in the past 50 years. With so many ways to enjoy it, cross-country skiing has become appealing to a large assortment of people. It's one of the top sports for low-impact card ...
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