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From Shogun to Powder

This ski trip actually began in 1980 while I was still in grade school. The original airing of the original Shogun (the day I’m writing this it was announced that the star of that mini-series Richard Chamberlain has passed away) really caught my attention and indeed fascination. This led to me some years later purchasing the book Shogun by James Clavell and reading it and it was very riveting – I do recall finishing the second half of the book in one weekend – only getting out of bed for the most basic of life necessities! […]

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Health, Fitness, and Nutrition

Save the Knee!

Easy Kneesy When us skiers hear the word joint, what do we think? No, not weed! The joints I most often hear about when it comes to skiing are the hip and knee joints. Both […]

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Grass Skiing

Here is some more humor from the The Wisconsin Skier V1.0. Here are the top ten comments heard at the International Grass Skiing Competition recently held in Iran. In ascending order: The grass on run […]

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The Snowman

Check out this snowman! This snowman lives along HWY 32 near Wabeno, WI right across the road from the Wabeno Mannequins. The creator made the nose with a traffic cone and used tires to form […]

Powder Skiing how I pine for it -- Skier blowing up a stash of powder snow
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Powder Skiing

Powder Skiing — The Midwestern Groovy Hardpack! Given that I live in the Upper Midwest and have not ski-traveled much, powder skiing is not something I am used to. We don’t get powder too often […]

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Health, Fitness, and Nutrition

On Balance

   One of the key factors in ski & snowboarding health is balance. Often times when we think of physical fitness for the snow we think of getting our legs muscles up to snuff and our […]

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Twitter for the Phone

One thing I find myself doing more and more often, is shying away from Twitter usage when I am on the laptop or our desktop and confining the reading and writing of Tweets more and […]

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The Wisconsin Skier is a ski and cycling fanatic who loves to share his passions for the activities by writing about them! Come along and join him on his active adventures!
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