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Rent or Buy Equipment This Season?
Here’s an email I sent sent to a friend of mine that was asking my advice about buying or renting skis. He plans to go quite a bit this year and this is a good question. Enjoy: …Really, the best place for sure to put money is in your boots. No doubt. Spend money on…
Local Ski Lift Disaster at Devil’s Head
Yikes, you hate hearing stories like this – people getting injured using a ski lift. There was some sort of problem with the lift where people were going backwards for about 2 minutes. People were jumping off while others were somehow getting slammed into a wall or something. Three people were seriously injured and 14…
Learn to Ski: Chapter 4 – From Wedge to Parallel Skiing
We don’t typically teach turning in a wedge, but some hills do. If you’re still tuck turning in a wedge, it’s best to go parallel since it’ll take less muscle, make you more efficient and you won’t get tired so quickly. 📄 Download PDF Version
Granite Peak Trip
This was fun… a group of us ski instructors went up to Granite Peak in Wausau, WI for the day (Rib Mountain). We had an ex-Cascade ski school director, Paul, be our guide out there. We got to most of the runs. Some on the right were kind of bad with the snow that was…
U.P. Ski Trip Video
We got back from a guys’ ski trip up to the Upper Peninsula earlier this week and here’s a video from our trip. It was Jason, Jeremy, Adam, Kelly and I. We stayed at Indianhead Mountain Village and watched the Super Bowl in Bessemer, MI. We had an outdoor hot tub, interesting neighbors, played some…
Ski Clinic at Cascade
Last night we had our normal, Wednesday night clinics. We normally do a general clinic for an hour and then they do a certification clinic for an hour and half after that or sometimes there’s an alternate clinic. The first one was on movement analysis and that was good. John first showed us how to…