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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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Midwest Friendly Ski Talk

   Is to be found here in a post entitled Three Different Ski Regions to be Aware Of over at SkiSnowboarder dot Com: 2. The Midwest. Most people don’t view the Midwest as skiing country, but […]

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Resorts

Exaggerated Resort Statistics

PlanetSki has an interesting article on exaggerated snow resort statistics. You know, some of the key stats we see when comparing snow resorts are: total acreage, total number of runs, vertical, and length of the […]

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The Last Ride

Mind Games

    Lately, I have been near obsessive about viewing YouTube POV videos of skiers going down ski trails of nasty repute, e.g. Birds of Prey at Beaver Creek, the HahnenKamm at Kitzbühel, and the downhill […]

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Ski Travel

One of the topics I have not really discussed is travel. Being a skier residing in Wisconsin one would think travel is at the top of my mind, well it is but it does not […]

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