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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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5 Tips to Take Your Child Skiing
While skiing is one of the most enjoyable experiences there is, it can also be fairly dangerous. So what do you do when you go to the ski resort with your family and you have a child? Well, you have more options than you think as there are plenty of things to do [...]
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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 [...]
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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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A Dummy’s Guide to Snowboarding
For a sport that had just been invented a few decades ago, snowboarding has gained popularity at an astonishing rate. It has been a Winter Olympic Sport since 1998, and is now arguably the second most popular snow sport after skiing.
Snowboarding evolved from the skateboarding culture in the United States. The combination in the [...] -
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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
