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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! […]

Save the knee! Drawing of the knee!
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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The Last Ride

Holiday Skiing

How many of you ski on holidays? By holiday I mean the official holidays, such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, etc. We have the opportunity to ski on a number of them, do you carve on […]

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Equipment

Rocker and Rolling Skis

Ski Magazine online notes a new trend in ski design: the rocker. Skis typically feature a design characteristic known as camber. Lay the ski on a flat surface (flat side down) and look at the […]

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Resorts

Sugar is Sweet

One story I have been following the last month or so is the attempts to bring Sugarloaf Mountain back into the ski business. Being I live West of Lake Michigan and Sugarloaf is on its […]

Free Body Diagram-- a foucalt pendulum
Skiing

Free Body Diagram

This entry is part [part not set] of 1 in the series Physics

What we are looking at is a simple free body diagram. Free body diagrams are used by those studying the physics of a situation to understand and visualize the forces at play in the situation […]

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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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