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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…
Carving a Steep Pitch
Here’s a video of someone carving a steep pitch. We’re going to look over this tomorrow night it sounds like. Some good skiing. I’m working on the details for my ski trip this season. It looks like we might do Tahoe. I’ve got a cousin out there and she and her family like to ski…
Skiing in India?
Ok, I wasn’t skiing in India but got to teach of few people from Chennai how to ski. Up at Cascade, we seem to get a lot of people in from the Chicago area. I ask them where they’re from and they just say "Chicago" instead of what actual suburb they’re in since they think…
How to Wax Skis
Well, ski and snowboard season starts this month, so it’s time to dig those skis out, see how dry they are and get them tuned up. Until, I’ve had my skis tuned maybe twice a season and just did some paste wax in between tunings. I just bought a Swix waxing iron and now even…
Passed the PSIA Level 1 Exam!
Wow, what a fun weekend and vacation. Karl and I got up there on Thursday night. We skied Friday. I demoed some skis and then went to MC Sports where they were having a huge clearance sale and I picked up some new Head 300i skis (163mm, 14.1 radius) and Salomon boots. I then “tested”…
Winter in Wisconsin
Well, winter is dying down here but I have friends and others that are wondering what winter in Wisconsin is really like. Well, it’s pretty simple: Any temperature above 20 in January is “warm” or even “hot.” When it’s sunny out, it’s cold. When it’s cloudy out, it is snowing or will snow. When we…