Glide-on wax.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: COLORADO COOL STUFF - Brief article

Lin Martin got the recipe for her first batch of Glide-on Wax from her boss at her former job at a polymer lab in 2005.

"I mixed some up, not knowing anything about ski wax -- I don't even ski," she says. "People loved it"

So Martin honed the mix -- which includes wax and a secret polymer but none of the toxic additives many competitors employ -- in a lab at her home in Bayfield.

Today, numerous Durango-area ski shops use Glide-on Wax because of its durability and plasticity as well its green nature. "The...