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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Feb. 7)

February 7, 2020

Our Iowa Caucus Moment, Hemingway In The Voralberg, Ragged And Powder, Mystery Lady, Weather Report. Last Friday, SeniorsSkiing.com launched our Annual Fundraiser, asking you, our wonderful readership, to help defray some of the expenses that…

Skiing Weatherman: A Battle For The Second Half

February 4, 2020

This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Jan. 31)

January 31, 2020

Annual Fundraiser Starts, John Fry, Mystery Team, DV Multi-Generationals, Weather Coming, Start Drinking. If it's Ground Hog Day, it must mean SeniorsSkiing.com is launching its annual fundraiser. This time around, we have three levels of premiums…

SeniorsSkiing.com’s Winter Fundraiser Begins

January 29, 2020

We're Asking For Your Support; Contribute And Get A Cool Premium. SeniorsSkiing.com is in the middle of our sixth publishing year. We are gratified and proud that our online magazine has clearly found an audience that resonates with our editorial…

Skiing Weatherman: Mid-Winter Preview

January 27, 2020

Herb Is Bullish On The Second Half Of This Season. The past week has been another relatively quiet one over the eastern half of the country in terms of fresh snowfall while the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia have again been targeted with substantial…

This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Jan. 24)

January 24, 2020

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Talking To Yourself, Skis Delivered, Robert Frost, New Mystery And A Correction, Weather Coming Up, Windham Mt MidWeek Seniors. As reported in this space, the snow weather here in New England has been sketchy once a burst of fluff in early December…

Skiing Weatherman: Winter Is Delivering

January 22, 2020

Looks Like A Promising Couple Of Weeks. It has been a terrific week of skiing and riding in most of the U.S. and Canada and I have been lucky enough to squeeze in a couple of days. Loon Mountain on Tuesday was wonderful; miles and miles of packed powder…

Snow In Literature: The Wood-pile

January 20, 2020

By Robert Frost Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day,I paused and said, 'I will turn back from here.No, I will go on farther—and we shall see.'The hard snow held me, save where now and thenOne foot went through. The view was all in…

This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Jan. 17)

January 17, 2020

East Coast: Start Us Up. Roll Away Stiff Muscles, Harriet Wears A Cup Cake, New Bindings Old Skis, Mystery Top Hatted Skier, Nordic Gourmet Ski Tours, Good Weather News. Last weekend, the temperature was 70+ degrees in Boston, a record high for January…

Incidents & Accidents: 7

January 15, 2020

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Safety Is Up To All Of Us. [Editor Note: Dave Irons contributed this article on skiing safety which first appeared in the Lewiston Sun Journal. Dave is a veteran ski journalist and ski patroller. SeniorsSkiing.com is collecting stories from…

Skiing Weatherman: For The East, Enter Winter

January 14, 2020

A Comeback For The East And Midwest, More Pow For The West. I spent the first two days of this week with fellow members of the North American Snowsports Journalists Association at Windham Mountain, NY, where the crew did an outstanding job of providing…

Ask The Expert: New Bindings, Old Skis

January 13, 2020

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The Opposite Question From A Couple Of Weeks Ago. A Question From Reader James Davis: Ok I fully understand the mechanical aspect of old bindings, but what about the skis underneath? I have several pair of older skis in excellent visual condition…

This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Jan.10)

January 10, 2020

Where The Snow Is In The East, A Ski Learning Tool, Grandparents Teach Munchkins, Weather Coming, Apres Fire-ish Cocktail. Sounds as if the West is off to an incredible season. Snow packs in Colorado and Utah are already over normal amounts, the…

The Skiing Weatherman: Changeable East, Snowy West and Mid-West

January 9, 2020

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The West Continues To Luck Out, Cold Coming East By Month End. Despite a wildly changeable run of weather in the East recently, I managed to get two days of wonderful winter turns in early this week. It snowed on Monday at Sugarbush as I skied packed…

Int/Att Loop: A Technique Improvement Tool

January 9, 2020

After So Many Years, Can You Improve? Here's A Way. First, do you want to improve your skiing? If you don't care that much, read no further. If instead you still have a hankering for greater skill and more satisfaction, then the good…

Should You Teach Your Munchkins To Ski?

January 6, 2020

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[Editor Note: From time to time, SeniorsSkiing.com re-publishes an article from its archive. Here's one from Harriet Wallis about teaching your grandkids to ski from way back in 2014. Comments welcome.] Five Non-Obvious Tips For Making Learning Fun…

This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Jan. 3)

January 3, 2020