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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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Sony A55 — One Defect

The Sony A55 Sweep Defect The image to the right is a snippet from a full sized panorama image taken from my Sony A55, notice a problem? In an earlier post I described the Sony […]

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Equipment

Sliding on Smith Sliders

Sunglasses are not usually considered essential ski gear. Still, how many of us would go to the ski hill without our sunglasses? How many of us would pass up wearing our sunglasses for wearing goggles? […]

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Skiing

USSA J4/J5/J6 Races at Ski Brule

Ski Brule hosted the United States Ski and Snowboard Association’s (Central Division Region II) Finale for J4/J5/J6 class skiers. I went there to ski and to photograph the youngsters skiing. I enjoyed watching the skiing […]

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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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