SKI RUN: If you’re going skiing over...

SKI RUN: If you’re going skiing over the New Year’s weekend but have not yet rented your ski equipment, you might try the public library, where you can get a good book and stay home. Ski equipment is gone or going fast, say most rental shops in Orange County. . . . “We’re like, out,” says a spokeswoman for the Newport Ski Company in Orange. “We get a snow board, it’s gone in an hour. Poles--forget it.”