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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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Breakfast Review Part Deux

YABJR! Yet another breakfast joint review! Not that the Brule River Tap is a strictly breakfast joint. Today’s review covers Ma’s Place at 309 US HWY 2 in Wakefield Michigan. Last weekend (March, 13 2010) […]

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Wakey Wake!

As noted, I am seeing a lot of tweets from my ski contacts and the tweets are mostly ski related. Ski Brule tweeted the other day that their ski operations for the 2010-2011 season just started up! I’ve been seeing tweets and FB communications from nearby Nordic Mountain and of course all the other ski bloggers I network with are getting geared up! It is nearly time for my annual ski dream! […]

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Problems Resolved

Recently I performed some maintenance on this site and in doing so I broke some of its functionality. You will now find the missing functionality restored to its normal working status. Sorry for the problem […]

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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 […]

Skiing ABCs A
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Skiing ABCs A

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

We start off with Skiing ABCs A, the first article in this series is going to cover terms beginning with the letter A. I have two in mind one is fun and the other is […]

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