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My New Skiing Love – No Poles
I have to say, the last few weekends, I’ve been doing runs without my poles and I just love it. We went last night and I had my poles here at home, getting ready for my trip (on purpose) so I was skiing without poles all last night. I felt so free. I really wanted…
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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
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Yooper Ski Trip 2010
Al and I took a trip up to the U.P. and it was great. We hit Granite Peak (Rib Mountain in Wausau) on the way up. It was a great way to break up the trip and we got there right at 10am. There was fresh snow waiting for us and not many other skiers….