Pioneer Midwest Blogs

I have just returned from a long hiatus from the shop on a trip out west with Team Birkie. For the latter half of July we planned on spending two weeks in Bozeman to work on a base volume block and...

This will be the first installment of a new blog series that I will be writing. I am the service manager at Pioneer Midwest and am also in charge of any of the programming and coaching that is done...

One of the most important pieces to the fast ski puzzle, grinding new skis ensures optimal speed out of your ski investment.   With hand-picked skis arriving and heading out the door to customers, ...

*Above you can see the difference between factory structure vs high-quality Nordic structure machines like our Tazzari. There is a big difference in grind/speed quality. We recommend grinding all ...

Jeremy Hecker has been hired at Pioneer Midwest as the fulltime race service manager. Hecker was most recently employed as the head Nordic ski coach as the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. “Jerem...

  Matt Liebsch talks training and other topics during a weekly training vlog:  WATCH HERE

  Matt and Adam had a big European ski picking trip. They made stops in Norway and Austria to visit and pick skis at Madshus, Salomon, Atomic and Fischer. Check out videos of their travels in the ...

This June we had our first ski picking trip of the summer. It was a little early for us, as Adam is still in mountain bike mode and I am enjoying some roller skiing. But traveling for ski picking r...

Last week on Monday and Tuesday, Adam Johnson and I traveled to Utah to select skis from the Rossignol US distribution center/race center for both customers on our pick list and for our base invent...

Just a few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to make a quick trip across the pond to pick skis at the Amer Sports ski factory. Salomon and Atomic both fall under the Amer Sports umbrella and their ...