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Four Tips for Better Hydration While Skiing
When you’re outside in the heat and you can’t help but see the sweat beading down your skin, you know you need to stay hydrated. But when you’re skiing in colder weather, sometimes more concerned about remaining warm rather than staying hydrated, it can be easier to ignore your body’s need for water. [...]
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How to Become a Snowboarder
Okay, so you’ve played enough snowboarding video games that you could be considered an expert by now, but you’ve never actually hit the slopes. Sure, it seems easy to press “A” and “X” and stroll your way down an incredibly daunting virtual hill, but now you want to go the extra mile – actually snowboarding! [...]
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Snowboarding Safety 101
Nothing can ruin a perfect holiday getaway more than a painful physical injury. Every year, thousands of snowboarding accidents occur on the slopes. Over 92% of these accidents involve crashes into stationary objects, while some involve collisions with other snowboarders.
It is interesting to note that more than 50% of these accidents happen during the [...] -
What to Wear When You Going Skiing
When you’re debating whether you should go skiing or not, it’s important to remember the harsh conditions that are often found at the slopes. You will definitely want to have multiple layers of clothing, and perhaps you will want to have a special kind of fabric for your clothing. What things should you [...]
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Are You a Ski Lover or Hater?
Skiing is sometimes known as a “love it or hate it” sport – while some people love the idea of briskly sweeping down the slopes, others find the equipment awkward and the movements difficult. So which is it? And what kind of skier are you – the person who can really develop a [...]
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A Solid GPS Tip for Snowboarders
For many snowboarders, simply packing up and heading to the slopes is a great experience, more than enough reason to get out of the house on a cold winter day. But if you enjoy integrating a little technology into your activities, you won’t want to miss this GPS tip. In this article, we’ll [...]
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The Beginner’s Guide to Snowboarding
As you can imagine the first time you hit the slopes, snowboarding isn’t a skill that you pick up overnight. It’s something that comes with the muscle memory of at least a few weeks of practice, picking up as you experience, not necessarily as you learn. So how exactly do you get started [...]
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Today’s Climate and What It Means for Winter Sports in 2009-2010
With temperatures leveling off in recent years and a particularly mild summer across the United States here in 2009, it’s fair to say that we can expect a long and cold winter. We don’t need a groundhog to tell us that! But what does this exactly mean for winter sports in the winter, [...]
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Finding the Right Ski Resort
Skiing and snowboarding are awesome fun, but they require a certain environment that can only be found in limited locations. Usually you will have a two of three choices of ski resorts, but how can you find the one that’s right for you? Are you looking solely based on its location, or are [...]
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Four Avalanche Safety Tips
Most of us don’t ski enough or so boldly that we’ll ever get caught in an avalanche. But that doesn’t meant there isn’t a risk inherent when going out skiing on the slopes. There are skiers who continually push the envelope and essentially place themselves at the mercy of mother nature. And [...]
