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Whitefish Skiing Review

Mountain Skiing in the Mountains! [...]
Pining for Powder

I wanna Blow that Stuff Up! [...]
Don't Drop the Group Pete!

Group Riding is alive and vibrant! [...]
Taking Ski Lessons

Do it! It set me up for powder joy! [...]
NEWO 2017

I came away with my bike intact, all of my skin, I started four races (I raced a cat-5 race early on Sunday), and I finished four races. [...]

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US-2 — The Official Ski Highway of the USA!

April 12, 2025 0

There is a road, no simple highway Between the East and West And if you ski, there will be pow That line is for your tracks alone The Contenders There is a humble road in […]

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From Shogun to Powder

April 5, 2025 0

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! […]

CORON In large letters on the top of the hill over Coron Town Proper with a cross.

Coron Philippines Beach Questing

March 9, 2024 0

The last excursion was to Coron Palawan Philippines. Which occurred in the middle of our excursion to Cebu. We left my wife’s hometown and motored to Cebu City… […]

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Boracay Philippines Beach Bumming

February 24, 2024 0

The First Excursion My first excursion from the in-law’s house (in this case sister in law & her family) was to Boracay in the Philippines. In previous trips to the Philippines our beach excursions were […]

Madarao Ski Resort Japan -- Main sign against a cloudy sky

Skiing in Japan a Dream Come True

February 23, 2024 0

Skiing in 日本 (Japan) Years ago, I put up an article about the start of planning out a ski trip. It was not just any other ski trip but it was a side trip from […]

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Skiing for the Most of Us

February 3, 2023 0

On Twitter Gregg Blanchard tweets this: “I may not dream of skiing big lines anymore, but I do dream of living a life where, yes, I keep skiing for a few more decades but also […]

Save the knee! Drawing of the knee!

Save the Knee!

November 6, 2022 0

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 […]

The Hole on the Mantle

January 15, 2020 0

Exit… Stage Left It was a sunny summer day, I do remember that, the temperature of the day is lost. The month and particular trip is also buried too deep by life for me to […]

Ski Trail Signs -- a vista view from atop a ski mountain

Ski Trail Signs

November 15, 2019 0

Expanding the trail rating system is a good thing! […]

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I Am The Wisconsin Skier and I Endorse This Snow

December 9, 2010 0

Here at the Wisconsin Skier International Headquarters we are receiving our first winter snow “storm”. It isn’t much of a snowstorm, but enough for the radio broadcasters and so on to get themselves worked up […]

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Ice Ice Baby

January 3, 2012 0

Quite a few of us do not have the pleasure of skiing in soft powder snow all that often, in fact, many of us in the Midwest and on the East Coast often experience skiing […]

Staying Warm while Skiing -- a drawing of a cold thermometer

Sunday Chilly Sunday!

January 4, 2010 0

I finally managed to get some carving in, and it was good, but it was cold. We went up north last Friday with the intention of skiing on Saturday. However, looking at the mercury and […]

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Ski Season is Definitely Here!

December 11, 2010 0

No more resorts are open anymore just to say they are open. It is legitimate ski season here in the Upper Midwest. Snow dumps are starting to tuck in the tired land. We are expecting […]

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The Sounds of Summer

July 13, 2011 0

No pictures this time nor have I tried my hand at audio recording yet. So, I will have words only. I have written about the sounds of the season before, but want to do so […]

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Sting the Snow

February 6, 2010 2

I would add float like a butterfly (on powder) but we have little of that here in the Upper Midwest. However, this is not about the differences between skiing in the Upper Midwest and out […]

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