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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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What Is Backcountry Skiing?
Okay, so you’ve heard of skiing. You’ve even heard of cross-country skiing. But backcountry skiing? As it turns out, the term isn’t very complicated. You see, backcountry skiing simply refers to a less-regulated form of skiing in which people go out into more wild areas and ski in unmarked areas. In essence, people are simply [...]
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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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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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Eating for Skiing: Finding the Best Foods For Your Day-Long Skiing Adventures
When it’s cold outside, and you’re tackling hill after hill, swooshing and skilifting your way up and down the slopes, it can be easy to forget about some of your basic bodily functions. No, I’m not talking about the bathroom – I’m talking about your need for energy and nutrition. A day of skiing can [...]
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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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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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How to Know When You Have a Bad Skiing Instructor
For many skiing novices, the decision to let a ski instructor help you out with your technique is a no-brainer. It’s always good to have someone evaluate your talent and hone your skill so that you’re better prepared to handle the slopes. But that doesn’t mean every skiing instructor will be ideal for you, or [...]
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What Injuries Do Snowboarders Frequently Get?
If someone tells you that they like snowboarding, what is one thing you usually assume about them? Usually, that they lead a pretty active life – after all, one doesn’t just get up and go snowboarding one day; usually, it takes a lot of effort, equipment, and scheduling to make it all happen. Snowboarding can [...]
