Ahhhh, one of my favorite topics the Ski Patrol on the hill.
Last year the big ski patrol buzz was about some Ski Patrollers getting fired and this year the first ski patrol buzz is about a Ski Patroller going 5-OH on a snowboarder. Watch the video:
View the video first and cohttp://www.wi-ski.com/sunshine-ski-village-and-a-lawsuit/ntinue reading for my take.
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From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Every February, Will Andersen heads west for a week of serious skiing at one of the top resorts in Utah’s Wasatch Range, where he’ll carve turns on runs that drop from lofty summits around 11,000 feet down to base areas more than 3,000 feet below.
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“Wisconsin is where I live and ski most of the winter,” says Andersen, who dwells in rural Dane County and is retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I know that some people who also live here but disdain skiing in the Midwest. Not me.
I have commented on this copiously here, but what alternative is there? Yeah, the slopes are not as long, steep, numerous, or fast. However, the speeds experience in my comfy chair are less thrilling yet! So, I ski here when I can and enjoy it and enjoy being with my family, friends, and fellow skiers.
Get out there folks!
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From The U.S. Ski Team on Facebook:
Laurenne Ross suffered facial cuts but all else OK after crash into nets in Lake Louise DH. Drop her a note of best wishes.
I did not see the event as it happened, but I did see replays of the event which you can see here:
The accident occurs about 23 seconds into the video.
In fact, if you are looking at the same video image I see this is the moment Laurenne loses it and from that image, she is obviously in trouble.
Nothing is obvious as to what happens, the video is close and tight on Laurenne, but Picabo notes that Laurenne hit some irregularity on the course and put her out of control, and at the speeds these women are skiing lapses of control can get you intro trouble very quickly.
I remember skiing once, the skiing was late in the season and the snow cover on the hill was very soft and irregular. I was skiing down a hot run and on a headwall and half the headwall was covered with moguls. I was headed for the moguls and went to turn away form those moguls. I caught a ski edge and that caused me to keep going straight for that mogul field. Fortunately, I was able to pull the errant ski back in time and reestablish control and make the turn I needed. However, at that time I was not skiing 60 mph but probably more like 20 mph or so.
While the thoughts at these times are not very well put together they are certainly focused on Oh-Oh! Here is to Laurenne’s speedy return to the slopes!
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Just picked up on this Chicago Tribune Story:
Generations of local skiers have perched atop the slopes of Wilmot Mountain, waiting their turn among the crowd of novices, children and old pros before swooping down to the lodge.Since 1938, Chicago-area skiers have flocked to the modest resort, happy to find quality runs just across the Wisconsin border.
At least they thought it was across the Wisconsin border.
That’s been called into question by the resort’s next-door neighbor in Illinois, the Lake County Forest Preserve District. Forest preserve officials say a land survey shows that the top of one of Wilmot Mountain’s steepest and most popular hills contains a tiny sliver of property that juts into an Illinois forest preserve and rightly belongs to the taxpayers of Lake County.
Here we go, a property battle. Normally, I would say Wilmot Mountain has the upper hand, but seeing who their opponent is, I am not so optimistic.
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I am seeing a lot of blog postings & alerts along the lines of:
What appears to be going on is unscrupulous people are posting these stories and getting a burst of traffic from the BS rumor post or the denial story. Yesterday, it was a famous comedian/singer/actor today it was another actor whose name I did not recognize.
There was supposedly a rumor going about the death of a famous singer but she did not die (though reputable reporting does note she is gravely ill and the story does not involve winter spor). What irritates me the most is the stories are tending to center on skiing or snowboarding, there is enough reality along those lines we don’t need to add on with fiction. Please knock it off, and please don’t click on the links for the entire story, whether rumor or denial of rumor.
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Allegro non molto
“Aggiacciato tremar trà neri algenti
Al Severo Spirar d’ orrido Vento,
Correr battendo i piedi ogni momento;
E pel Soverchio gel batter i denti;”Largo
“Passar al foco i di quieti e contenti
Mentre la pioggia fuor bagna ben cento”Allegro
“Caminar Sopra ‘l giaccio, e à passo lento
Per timor di cader gersene intenti;
Gir forte Sdruzziolar, cader à terra
Di nuove ir Sopra ‘l giaccio e correr forte
Sin ch’ il giaccio si rompe, e si disserra;
Sentir uscir dalle ferrate porte
Sirocco Borea, e tutti i Venti in guerra
Quest’ é ‘l verno, mà tal, che gioja apporte.”
English under the fold.
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Many of my Facebook friends are putting up photos of snow blanketed vistas and complaining of clearing their driveways, the out of practice winter drivers (i.e. everyone), and I’ve seen one complaint expressing frustration in the snow they got did not live up to the hype (very common occurrence). What do I have? None of that. I am sitting in my basement in front of a roaring fireplace with my laptop on my lap. I am taking in the first weekend daylight views of my yard in what could be three weeks.
You see, I have a long long commute and that has me out the door well before sunup and I return after sunup. In addition, the last couple of weekends instead of settling in at home I race up north. I see some old snow and very little at that.
This current snow event is south of us in the Southeast part of WI. My state’s tundra appellation is not in fact all that accurate and relies upon one very cold day on which a famous football game was played (for the record The Green Bay Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys in that game, though no coaches were fired as a result). We get winters here and serious winters at that, but right now it is all blah at least by me.
However, forge on ahead for a list of currently open ski resorts in the WI region.
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Your attention please: Nordic Mountain announces via FB they hope to open this coming Saturday November 27, 2010. Hope it happens!
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The first snowflakes of the 2010-2011 snow season hit the Appleton & Hortonville area this afternoon! WOOT!
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