Those are reasons my favorite ski shop is Larson’s Ski & Sport. Owned by the same family for 37 years, it has thrived in Wheat Ridge near the Kipling-Interstate 70 interchange since 1992.

Casey Larson, who graduated from Barrington in December, recently returned to his home in Slovenia from Lahti, Finland, where he competed in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. In his first ...