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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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Cycling

Group Riding Culture

Please read Pete Wilborn’s article at The Lost Art Of The Group Ride. Pete’s points do not apply to group rides in the NE Wisconsin region. I find group riding culture in the Fox Valley […]

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Cycling

Rib Mountain Climb

I still consider myself an inexperienced cyclist and living in the gentle farmlands of Northeast Wisconsin I can work on distance, I can work on sprinting, but I really have nowhere near to work on […]

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Skiing

Snow Flying and Sticking!

Here at the International Lair of the Wisconsin Skier we have snow flying and sticking! I have seen snowflakes around here already but never enough to notice on the ground, as the ground was too […]

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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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