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US-2 — The Official Ski Highway of the USA!
There is a road, no simple highway Between the East and West And if you ski, there will be pow That line is for your tracks alone The Contenders There is a humble road in […]
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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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Training to Ski
For the annual ski trip instead of driving to ski we were “training” to ski. That is we took the Empire Builder Amtrak train from Columbus Wisconsin to Whitefish Montana. In my previous two trips […]
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Après Ski Avant le Feu: Seasoned Wood
After ski before fire. One of the treats of skiing is being around fireplaces. We all enjoy them but very few of us have them. The most important factor in easily starting wood fires is […]
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Windy City Ski and Snowboard
The Windy City Ski and Snowboard Show of 2014 is being held at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center. Believe it or not, this will be my first ski and snowboard exposition, I have […]