Obituary — The 2012-2013 Snow Season

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An Obituary

The 2012-2013 snow season passed away today after a brief but valiant struggle with warmness.

The 2012-2013 snow season was born in November of 2012 and experienced a sickly childhood struggling against warmness and lack of snowfall. However, in Late January of 2013 the cold and snow came on strong and the snow season of 2012-2013 grew into a strong winter and from that point on provided hundreds of thousands with snow joy! The early struggles with warmness gave the 2012-2013 snow season the strength to persevere way past its expected death but unfortunately it contracted the warms again and this time it succumbed.

Snow season 2012-2013 is survived by Summer 2013 and was preceded in death by Spring 2013. Other survivors include hundreds of thousands of snowmobiles, skiers, snowboarders, ice-fishermen, and others who will not sit idly by during the life of winter.

Funeral services for Snow season 2012-2013 will be held at parks, lakes, beaches, bike trails, roads, ball parks, all over the world during Summer 2013. In lieu of sending flowers, please plant them along with your vegetables and trees.


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Fade to Bike

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Fade to Bike

sung to the tune of Metallica’s Fade to Black

Snow, it seems, will fade away
Drifting further, every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters, no one else
I have lost the will to ski
Simply nothing more to shred
There is nothing more for me to ski
Need the summer to set me free

Things not what they used to be
Missing snow on which to ski
Snowy loss, this can’t be real
I cannot stand this temperature I feel
Restlessness is filling me
To the point of monotony
Growing sunlight, bringing dawn
Snow was here, but now it’s gone

No one can ski
Can bike instead
But it’s too warm
Now I can’t shred
Think why I should even try

Winter seems as though
It never existed
Summer greets me warm
Now I will just say good BIKING
BIKE…


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Search and You Shall Find Wise Answers!

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So you have come to the Wisconsin Skier searching for answers to your questions. Here are your questions and my wise answers! Search and you shall find wise answers!

Search and You Shall Find Wise Answers — The questions and the Answers

  • can i sue a ski resort in Wisconsin after skier to skier collision?
  • ANSWER Yes! You can even sue them for serving up soggy fried cheese curds, the question you should ask though is can you win? Given all I know of this case is the search term, I would say no you will not win, I suggest you sue the skier that hit you, oh-yeah, they probably have the same amount of money as you do and you would spend more time, effort, and money attempting to collect than you would collect.

    I suggest you sue the car dealer that sold the car the other skier rode to the hill in. They have deep-deep pockets and might be so dumb-founded by this silliness they be stunned into being a no-show at the court proceedings you end up winning the case by default.

  • nameing my pot of chili
  • Hmmm, what should you name your pot of chili? I usually call mine Chili the Red. You see I have Norwegian ancestry and this harkens back to my great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather Dustin the Magenta. Dustin the Magenta settled the land around Kilarney Ireland and developed our secret family chili recipe, so to honor him and the recipe I call it Chili the Red. However, you can name your pot of chili anything you want.


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Rocker Ski Design — The Debate Is Settled!

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The ski industry discovered it first! Here is the research:

The scientists found human remains: an upper mandible, the right side of a pelvic girdle, and an ankle joint fused to one of the mastadon tusks, all of which are estimated to be approximately 9,000 years old.

“It appears that they used the mammoth bones as a form of transportation,” said Stephan Sebastyan, head paleo-archeologist at the museum. “As a skier myself, I was amazed that the tusks seemed to employ some degree of rocker.

So, I suppose this means the missing link is the other foot & tusk, huh?


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These Boots are Meant For Skiing

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Writing an editorial I noted how some people were attempting to hike up a hill in their ski boots. I then came up with the phrase of “These boots are NOT made for walking”. Obviously that is one word from a hit song and below is my attempt at adapting that song to fit skiing.

Enjoy!
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Skiin’

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Sing it to the tune of the Grateful Dead’s Truckin’

Skiin’ — got my tix turned in
Keep Skiin’ — like the Bode man
Together — more or less in line
Just keep Skiin’ on

Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street
Brule, Aspen, Monarch it’s all on the same trail
Your typical ski run involved in a typical daydream
Hang it up and see what next season brings

Stratton — got a snow machine
Aspen — too close to Breckenridge
Park City — got the ways and means
but just won’t let you be

Most of the cats you meet on the greens speak of powder
Most of the time they’re sittin and cryin at home
One of these days they know they gotta get goin
out of the door and down to the corduroy all alone

Skiin’ — like the Bode man
once told me you got to plant your pole
sometime — the edges ain’t worth a dime
if you don’t lay em down

Sometimes the snow’s all falling on me
Other times I can barely skid
Lately it occurs to me
What a long strange rip it’s been

What in the world ever became of sweet Jane?
She lost her sparkle, you know she isn’t the same
Living on greens, blues, and its lame
all a friend can say is “ain’t it a shame”

Skiin’ — up to Buffalo
Been thinkin — you got to mellow slow
Takes time — you pick a place to go
and just keep Skiin’ on

Sitting and staring out of a ski lodge window
Got a tip they’re gonna kick the door in again
I’d like to get some sleep before I ski
but if you got a warrant I guess you’re gonna come in

Busted — over in Breckenridge
Set up — like a bowling pin
Knocked down — it gets to wearing thin
They just won’t let you ski

You’re sick of hanging around and you’d like to travel
Tired of travel, you want to settle down
I guess they can’t revoke your soul for trying
Get out of the door – light out and look all around

Sometimes the snow’s all falling on me
Other times I can barely skid
Lately it occurs to me
What a long strange rip it’s been

Skiin’ — I’m goin home
Whoa-oh baby, back where I belong
Back home – sit down and patch my bones
and get back Skiin’ on


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Signs of the Times

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St. Borreal of Taos sends his greetings to the seven ski hills.

I was asleep at the base Mount of Taos and I was whisked away by a great chair on odd looking trees and vines and when I reached the top of the mountain an angel in a tent and an angel in red and white garb greeted me. I got off of the chair and the approached me and told me to mark well what was about to be revealed to me.

The angel, who revealed his name to me as Skipa Trol guided me to a location where there was a clearing in the woods and and a young boy came to me and cried:

When will it be time? We have waited in misery and heat, when will it be time?

I asked the angel Skipa Trol what was troubling the youth, and he would not answer me but pointed to a vision of woods where there were many men and they were all clothed in bright orange and bearing instruments that I could not comprehend. The instruments would strike deers of the woods dead and I was awestruck by the power of the instruments. Skipa Trol then said let that be a sign for all to heed!

Skipa Trol then took me to another clearing where there was a woman with her feet attached to a board and she was wailing and when she saw me with Skipa Trol she started to hop at us and wailed and gnashed her teeth demanding we turn on the snowma kingma chines and the angel Skipa Trol told her to mind the code. Skipa Trol then revealed to me a big pile of orange orbs. Skipa Trol then grabbed an orb and peeled it and ate it, he exhorted me to do likewise and it was a clementine! Skipa Trol said there is your second sign!

I asked Skipa Trol to what did the signs point? Skipa Trol told me to wait and all would be clear. So then he took me to a and old building in the trees, when we went in the leaves on the trees were green. We went in and I saw another angel Skipa Trol hailed as Dyer Maker, Dyer Maker greeted me saying: “Hail St. Borreal of Taos full of vim and vigor, the edge is with you.” Dyer Maker then talked to me, but I could not recall what Dyer Maker said to me and my recording instrument did not work. Skipa Trol then said in a loud voice: IT IS TIME, come with me or you will miss it. When we left the building the leaves on the trees were orange. Skipa Trol told me the orange leaves are yet another sign of trials to come.

I was amazed and troubled, what did the signs portend? The coming of the taxman? My dental appointment, my date with Ho Ttie? Skipa Trol then took me down the mountain to a large temple at the base of the mountain and another angel this one named Je Ssica greeted me and bid me to enter the temple. The angel then waved a wand and images of men swatting at, throwing, and fighting over an orange orb appeared. Je Ssica said there is yet one more sign and they bid me to sleep which I did.

I came back to, how long I slept I could not tell, but when I awoke the mountain was covered in snow as white as snow and a chorus of people in the temple shouted repeatedly: “Who is worthy to take first tracks? Who will track the mountain first?” I wept as no one proved worthy to answer the chorus and and then shortly after I started weeping Skipa Trol and Je Ssica grabbed two boards, two boots, and two sticks and poked me in the chest with one of the sticks and in unison shouted “YOU! YOU St. Borreal of Taos you shall take the first tracks.” I wept louder as I was not worthy, where was the likes of Glennpla Ke or War Ennmiller? Still the angels insisted I take first tracks and explained: “By these signs we showed to you, you shall know ski season approaches.. Now go and track the snow!”

Indeed, by those signs will know ski and snow season approaches!


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This Gives Wedge Another Meaning!

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Skiers understand the term wedge in a different manner than teen bully pranksters. Skiing in a wedge is also called the snowplow stance and is when you ski by weighting the inside edges of both skis and point the tips at each other and the tails are spread apart, another term used to describe this stance is pizza.

That is different from wedgie, we all generally know what a wedgie is and we do not usually associated wedgie with skiing. Another great entry for the glossary!

I see stuff along this line frequently while riding up Ski Brule’s backside chair. Usually kids who are horsing around on the T-Bars will fall down or ride up solo with the bar between their thighs and the bar behind them.

Read on for an hilarious on the slopes wedgie!
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Oh Monsieur! Funny Sitcom Situation

By: In: Competition, Humor, Skiing

Below the fold is a funny video. The video stars a French downhill race skier straddling a gate, yes it features a common situation found in many sitcoms especially those of a more adult nature. The video is not funny because it is standard adult sitcom stuff. The video is funny because of what you hear from 15 to 19 seconds into the video, not watch, but listen. In addition, listen to the commentator’s comments.

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The Skiing Bear!

By: In: Humor, Site Related, Skiing

You may have heard of the Dancing Bears an iconic set of bears associated with the Grateful Dead. Well, I am working on putting them into ski gear!

Skiing Bear

It is a fair amount of drudgery, but it is funny how labors of love (an oxymoron) do not seem like drudgery but you keep pushing on and driving on till you reach your goal. I want to add boots and perhaps actual skis rather than the black lines I drew. Still I like it! Also, I am using images I captured and modified for a java applet I wrote around 15 or so years ago!

I took a scan of the bumper sticker, isolated each bear, and smoothed out the edges (in some cases pixel by pixel), and then cloned and colored the bears. So, each color set had one bear in each dance step. I then coded up a java applet to put the bears through their dance steps.

As you can see, I have other plans for the Dancing Bears. What I really need is larger images, the one above is 55 pixels square and a lot of detail gets lost when ski gear gets scaled down from let us say 200×250 to 20×25!


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