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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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Backseat Baby!

   When listening to ski commentators or read someone write about skiing, they will often say something like: Ooooh, and Anilik is in the backseat and she is now offline. What is meant by backseat in […]

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Humor

Skiin’

Sing it to the tune of the Grateful Dead’s Truckin’ Skiin’ — got my tix turned in Keep Skiin’ — like the Bode man Together — more or less in line Just keep Skiin’ on […]

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Skiing, Velocity, Acceleration, and Forces

Acceleration is another vector we often hear of. Acceleration is the change in velocity over time. When you push off and get headed downhill we all knows what happens, our speed increases and that is an acceleration. That can not happen without a force acting on you. […]

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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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