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Ski Season 2009-2010
I think the season’s going well so far. I’ve taught a bunch of lessons and have just been skiing up at Cascade Mountain. We’ve had good snow but the temps have been cooler than normal. This last week and right now we’re in a break from the cold temps, which is really nice. The snow,…
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…
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…
Harald Harb Ski Clinic
We had a skiing clinic last night at Cascade. He got in a little late due to traffic but I’m glad I stayed around for it. We had 2 hours with Harald Harb and there were just 5 of us in the clinic, which was nice. He mainly went over the movements required to make…
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…
Almost the End of Ski Season
Well, I put in my last weekend of ski instructing at Cascade Mountain for this year. They’re open one more weekend. It doesn’t sound like there will be many instructors there but it’s not likely that people will be taking a lot of lessons the last week of the season unless they’re going out west….