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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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Travelling Skier

If you ski, you travel. Most of our skiing is done locally, but not all. After all, for those of us in the Upper Midwest if we want world class skiing we need to go […]

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Helmets Wear Them!

Helmets are a frequent topic here and I am on a mission to get you to wear them if you already do not. Helmets Wear Them! — Common Objections While looking good and fashionable is […]

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Pope Benedict XVI on Skiing

Pope Benedict XVI recently made comments about sports in general and skiing in particular. No, he was not condemning such pursuits but instead pointing out they are not empty activities. He started off by noting: […]

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Skiing and Writing

I launched this site back in 2004 or so, I can not recall the exact date (w/o having to pull up the old site and finding the date of the first post) and I resurrected […]

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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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