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Top Tips for Skiing and Staying Dry
Imagine this: You’re skiing down the slopes. You may not be a professional, but you aren’t a novice anymore, and you’re really starting to enjoy the process. Trees whizz by on the left and the right and the snow glides smoothly underneath your skis. It’s like sliding on wax, to the left, to the right, [...]
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How to Get Ready for the Skiing Season
With the winter months rolling around and the northern hemisphere once again retreating away from the sun, skiing and snowboarding fanatics are getting excited: ski season is ready to begin again. For the avid skiing junkie, the skiing season is year-round as they chase the best places on Earth, but for the local ski hobbyists, [...]
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A Weekend in Aspen: What Makes Skiing So Great?
If you’ve never been skiing in your life – and this applies especially for those of you in a more tropical climate – you might ask yourself why there is such emphasis on skiing, especially with people who seem to have a lot of money. “A weekend in Aspen” doesn’t sound fun to you; instead, [...]
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What are the Best Weather Conditions For Skiing?
It’s ice-cold outside, and you want to remain physically active. The thought suddenly pops into your head: you could go skiing! But with the wind chill making weather conditions more severe, is that really such a great idea? In fact, what exactly is the best kind of weather to go skiing in exactly? You’re about [...]
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Five Steps to an Effective Ski Trip
As anyone who’s planned a vacation knows, a trip doesn’t all come together by itself. Instead, it takes careful planning, a reasonable amount of flexibility, and smart preparation to make a good trip happen. This is no less true when you’re planning a good ski or snowboarding trip with you and your family and/or friends. [...]
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What Type of Skis Should You Buy
One of the most common responses to the question “what type of ski do you have?” is simple. People might look at you a little dumb-founded, wait a bit, and then say “there’s more than one type?” Skiing can be a multi-faceted sport, filled with different styles, terrains, and strategies, so it’s fitting that the [...]
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Do Some Spring Skiing
For many it seems like the winter fun has just begun and it is suddenly over, especially for skiers. The good news is that just because winter is over it doesn’t mean that you have to hang up the skis. A lot of ski resorts have extended hours through April offering longer hours and deep [...]
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Beginner Tips for Water Skiing
Like most seasonal sports, Water Skiing is a summer sport many people participate in during the warmer months. For those new to this exciting sport, there are some fundamental tips for ensuring the novice has a fun and safe experience. This is a sport in which a person uses tow ropes, stands on one or [...]
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Hitting the Slopes in Style: A Guide to Skiing Like Yourself
To novices, the ski slope is a dangerous thing. It’s too tall, too steep, and too full of white stuff to be considered anything close to safe. In reality, we know that skiing can be a fun, thrilling, even relaxing adventure that people of a wide range of ages can enjoy. To many people, skiing [...]
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Your Ski Trip Checklist
So you’ve decided to embrace the cooler temperatures of winter and head out on a skiing trip. Congratulations! It should make for a cool time. If you’ve never gone skiing before, however, you’re probably already starting to feel a little bit apprehensive about the whole thing. What kind of equipment will you need to bring? [...]
