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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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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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Warren Miller Speaks

Warren Miller writes a good column: Regardless of how much of a Sierra Club-letter-writing greenie you are, there are untold millions of acres of land in America that would make great ski resorts. More development […]

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Olympics to be Foreclosed On?

There are dueling headlines out there, regarding the financials of Intrawest the holding company that owns Whistler-Blackcomb that is hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics. Hat tip to Tommy Horrocks [update: it appears @TommyHorrocks deleted the […]

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Essential Sugar

Sugar is an important part of our diets and we do crave it and seek it out. Do we grasp for the sour or watery fruits? Do we rave about the wines produced in bad years? Do we instinctively look for the most sour foods or the sweet foods? Yes, our bodies, ourselves are programmed to seek and eat foodstuffs with sugar and the more of it the better. […]

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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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