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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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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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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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Pushing Snow Around

Uh-oh. I am seeing more and more tweets and other indicators that the regional ski resorts are starting up snowmaking again and are pushing snow around. One does not have to look at the calendar […]

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The Skiing Bear!

You may have heard of the Dancing Bears an iconic set of bears associated with the Grateful Dead. Well, I am working on putting them into ski gear! It is a fair amount of drudgery, […]

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Ski Rebel

I want to give a shout out to Ski Rebel Magazine online ski magazine. I just discovered the site and like it and is pretty much what I envision for this site.

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Making Snow

One of the problems riders of the snow have is our dependence on winter producing adequate quantities of snow. Some winters resorts get plenty of snow and other winters it arrives late, meager, and leaves […]

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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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