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Five Best Skiing Resorts in the United States
North America is host to some of the highest quality ski resorts in the world. Most of the best skiing is located in the western United States in the Rocky Mountain chain. Below is a list of five of the best America has to offer. Aspen Mountain – Aspen, Colorado is arguably the most well [...]
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Three Tips for Improving Your Skiing Balance
Skiing is a sport that requires different physical attributes: you’ve got to have endurance and agility, but you also always have to keep your balance. It doesn’t take rocket science to show that a sport involving two sliding skis down slippery snow will require a lot of balance. But what if you’ve always been a [...]
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Four Steps to Finding the Right Ski Instructor
Okay, so you’re sold on the benefits and thrilling nature of skiing, but you’re still a novice. You might be looking to get involved with the sport for the first time, or you might have considered your first few jaunts to be successful and fun enough to warrant a further and deeper commitment to this [...]
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Scouting for Ski Hills: Tips and Tricks
If you’re new to the sport of skiing, it goes without saying that you’ll want to find the right ski hill for you. The problem, of course, is that if you’re new to skiing, you don’t know what “the right ski hill for you” even means. Luckily, there are ways to find out what this [...]
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How to Ski With Your Whole Family
Between the ski boots, renting skis, assembling your layers of insulation from the cold, and making sure that you remain safe, skiing can sometimes feel like quite the involved hobby. So it’s understandable if some parents don’t even want to take their kids skiing very often – after all, if it’s that much trouble for [...]
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Skiing Safety Tips
Skiing is a great way to spend a vacation or a weekend, but is it dangerous? The answer is possibly. Skiing can be dangerous just like many other activities including riding your bike, but like riding your bike skiing has a lot of non-enforced choices for you to make. This article will list some basic [...]
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Five Tips for Better Skiing Etiquette
When you hear the word “etiquette,” you probably think about table manners and gentlemanly gestures. That’s a much more reasonable association than to think about ski hills. But etiquette still applies on the slopes, unless you have your own private ski hill – in which case, you don’t have need for articles like this. For [...]
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Learn the Four Distinct Ski Terrains
You already know by now that intermediate and advanced skiing isn’t always about form and technique, but about attitude and preparation. As you learn to ski and gain your “skier’s legs,” you’ll start finding that the challenge isn’t the skiing anymore; it’s finding a new challenge! But with an outdoor sport like skiing, the possibilities [...]
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Why You Should Always Wear a Skiing Helmet on the Slopes
There’s a reason many people love to echo a popular sentiment, “safety first.” It’s because safety should come first! Even if you don’t think that you’ll run into any trouble, you should feel better on the ski hills knowing that you’re well-protected and that you’ve done what you can to minimize risk. You won’t always [...]
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Three Different Skiing Regions to Be Aware Of
Sometimes, we get so caught up in our local skiing that we forget the amount of diversity that’s available in ski hills across the United States – and even in the world. But when it comes to our national skiing, there are just a few regions that bear special mentioning because of the popularity of [...]
