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Travel

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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Another Sign of the Times

The UW Badgers kicks off their basketball season as I type this post. More than football I associate NCAA Division I men’s basketball with ski season. In fact I enjoy watching a good college basketball […]

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Skiing and Writing

I launched this site back in 2004 or so, I can not recall the exact date (w/o having to pull up the old site and finding the date of the first post) and I resurrected […]

John Pinette had a Ski Comedy Routine
Humor

Ski Comedy

I have asked about music with a skiing theme and this evening ski comedy came to mind in a similar way. What got me thinking of this was the death of John Pinette, a comedian […]

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Skivangalism

    What do you do to promote skiing or snowboarding? Do you ask friends if they want to go? Do you sponsor that first lift ticket? Just what do you do to promote snow sports? […]

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Indianhead Suggestion

As I have made known, I skied at Indianhead recently. I like Indianhead a lot, the lodging is super, the skiing is not too bad, the taverns they run both on the bottom and at […]

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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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