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Skiing

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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Fitness is a Pincer Attack!

Fitness is a pincer attack! Many people try to exercise their way to health and ignore their diets or diet their way to health and ignore exercise. Like a full on frontal assault you can […]

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Happy Mother’s Day

I find it hard to believe it took me this long to think this post up! It is such a no-brainer. Happy Mother’s Day Mom! These wishes go out to all the other mothers out […]

Skiing ABCs B
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Skiing ABCs B

This entry is part [part not set] of 16 in the series Skiing ABCs

Skiing ABCs B — B is for Bluebird Skiers do not mind the gray days as those are the days delivering the fresh goods (ie snow) to us and if it is snowing hard enough […]

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Skiing

Saving On Lift Tickets

One of the bigger pains of skiing is the lift tickets, unlike our equipment lift tickets are consumables, even a season’s pass is a consumable. So all who ski need to figure out how tricks […]

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Today in Vancouver

Not too bad. Team USA earned its first medal in the Nordic Combined event with Johnny Spillane capturing the silver medal. I saw the cross country portion of the event and like auto-racing the best […]

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