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ICYMI for the End of This Season

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Three cheers for spring.  It means longer hours to linger in the sunshine, wearing fewer layers, ditching goggles for sunglasses, and also enjoying oodles of end-of-season events and early bird discounts for next season, including new season pass options.…
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$6,000 Lifetime Pass Offer From Washington State Ski Area

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With Ikon and Epic season passes costing around $1,000, and some walkup day passes hitting $300, a $6,000 Lifetime Pass sounds like a great deal. That’s what’s being offered by Loup Loup Ski Bowl, a small and fiercely independent ski destination…
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Tuning Skis (Part 2)

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As a young ski racer, I learned the importance of properly tune skis. Now as an old a recreational skier, I can assure you skiing “tuned” skis makes the sport more enjoyable.  Tuning a pair of skis answers three questions. One, do the bindings…
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CADS: Where Are They Today?

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Riding a chair lift last month, I saw them on a skier below. Ten days later, I saw them again, this time at an area 2,000 miles away. CADS...  Constant - force Articulated Dynamic Struts ... the odd looking, butt-to-boots device designed to keep…
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New Don Burch Video: Wonderment of Skiing

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This week Don Burch brings us A very personal account of what skiing means to him.  Enjoy! https://youtu.be/dGcKFwb_qt4?feature=shared  
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Skiing Ski Santa Fe

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When one thinks of the first ski areas in the U.S., one thinks of Sun Valley or Stowe. Few know that in 1936, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains east of Santa Fe, NM, Robert Nordhaus installed a rope two to haul people up the slopes of what is now Ski…
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Prepping Skis (Part 1)

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Way back when in the last century, after I started skiing, ski bottoms were wood. Then, Kofix, the first polymer bottom, came out in 1956 followed by P-Tex 2000 in 1966. Since then, every ski has a polyethylene bottoms. The lure, besides better gliding…
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The Older We Get- The Better We Were

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So, I was surprised this week when my friend Eric, from Tahoe (formerly of Vermont), mailed me some pictures from way back when we skied Tuckerman Ravine together. Looking at these 40 year old photos, I thought back to a time when we laid down the…
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ICYMI for March 2024

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Days are getting longer and warmer, and spring skiing is the reward we downhillers get for braving frosty fingers and toes until now.  Let’s hope the snow holds until April or May. Until then, enjoy these events and deals happening at the destinations…
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Skier/Snowboarder Responsibility Code – More Thoughts

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Let’s face it, unless you’re an active ski instructor trying to instill key concepts to your students, or a parent/grandparent trying to explain this thing to a relative or grandchild, when’s the last time you actually read this “Code”, now…
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Importance of Rental Demo Skis

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I love to ski. (My wife says I live to ski).  Most of my adult working life I was too busy  to research new ski technologies and techniques. It is why I wound up skiing the same pair of Head Monsters for a decade until they wore out, and how I learned…
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Personal History of Hunter Mountain

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Every time I drive Route 23A to Hunter Mountain, I am reminded of a lifetime connection to the area. I learned to ski here, and so did my kids, but I started visiting Tannersville long before the ski mountain opened in January, 1960. My family spent…
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What A Ski Instructor Wants You To Know About Keeping Warm

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by Stacey Smith I have been a ski instructor for 18 years. I am also a parent to two grown adults who learned to ski as children by going to work with me. Keeping all of us warm and comfortable for entire days on the slopes was my responsibility, and…
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North Creek Snow Train

90th Anniversary of the First North Creek Snow Train

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There was no Alpine ski racing at the first Lake Placid  Olympics in 1932 - the first downhill competition in the winter games was held four years later at Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany. But that didn't mean there wasn't plenty of enthusiasm for winter…
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France Vs Italy

France vs. Italy: And It’s Not About Soccer

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Looking for a traditional French village with a ski resort, I came across Val Cenis in Savoie, at the southern side of the highest paved mountain pass in Europe, Col de l’Iseran, 2,764 meters. In winter the closest airport is Turin and then the…
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Alterra Buys A-Basin

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Add another mountain to the growing list owned by Alterra – Colorado’s Arapahoe Basin, which everybody calls A-Basin. A favorite of locals and those who prefer an old-fashioned, low-key destination, A-Basin has been part of the Ikon Pass system since…
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Senior Skier Tries Monoskiing

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Editors Note: This article comes from SeniorsSkiing subscriber Rob Scharf I have been on two skis 55+ years, including as a patroller and volunteer mountain host.  So trying a monoski was a challenge that became exhilaration  - and just plain fun. I…
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And then there is Titus

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High speed detachable quads, gondolas, six-packs and eight-packs, bubble chairs and heated cushions are all part of the growing race to get us uphill faster, even warmer. And then, there is Titus, an independent family-operated, family-friendly…
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