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When Errol Flynn Skied at Alta

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Many famous Hollywood movie stars came to Alta to ski during the 1940s. Two of the best known were Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland, but most famous of all was Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling leading man. My uncle, the late Sverre Engen, was Alta's Ski…
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Test Your Skiing Knowledge

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Each issue of SeniorsSkiing.com has a picture to help test your skiing knowledge. Generally, the pictures are from collections in a variety of participating ski museums, which we encourage readers to visit. This image is from the Utah Ski &…
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Flat Light

The Flat Light Polka

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It isn’t just senior skiers who suffer in flat light, but whiteouts may take a greater toll on our sometimes diminished vision and balance. Case in point: the few falls I’ve had in recent ski seasons were all in flat light conditions. One crash…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Oct. 5)

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Big BC Snow Beats Record, Colorado Senior Discounts, Conditioning Cautions, Ski Shows Coming. No doubt about it, snow is making a statement in the Northwest and Canadian Rockies in particular. Just this week, Calgary experienced a record-breaking…
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A Woman’s Guide To Sports As We Grow Older

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Even Though You're Not A Spring Chicken, You Can Still Do The Sports You Love. Don't Let Your Past Hold You Back. To set the stage, I recently broke my wrist, so I'm sealed in a cast. Can't drive. Can't swim. Can't this. Can't that. Fortunately it's…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Sep. 28)

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Other Great Ski Publications, Protect Our Winters, Anticipation, Snowmaking As Fire Protection. As you may have read, SeniorsSkiing.com is entering its fifth season of publishing. Over these last few years, we have entered the amazing world of ski…
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Anticipation

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A Chill Is In The Air. It’s usually the cusp of late summer and early fall when I first start thinking about skiing. All it takes is some cool days and seeing the first leaves starting to turn. Wearing long slacks for the first time, turning on heat…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Sep. 21)

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Snow Is Happening Now, Winter Weather Prediction, Portillo Report, XC Binding News. So it begins.  There's snow in British Columbia, some parts of Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Check out the very recent snow map above from Snow-Forecast.com.  The…
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Winter Weather Forecasting: From Caterpillars To El Nino

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What Will The Winter Weather Be? There Are Many Ways Of Telling, So Place Your Bets. We grew up with several folk rules about forecasting the winter weather.  Most people know about the width of the bands of Woolly Bear caterpillars and the increased…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Aug. 24)

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Weather Perplexes, Forecasts Of El Nino, Conditioning Ideas, Interesting Articles. Ok, cut to the chase. This has been a weird summer, weather-wise. In the Northeast, unrelenting hot, humid, stormy, rainy, not just a little but a lot. Out West, dry,…
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Developing Golf Course Ski Trails

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New Revenue Source For Those Beautiful Fairways. Cross country (XC) skiers hit a hole-in-one once their local golf course, which has been converted to an XC ski area, is covered in snow. Golf courses are ideal for XC skiing as they are often easier…
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Book Review: The Nature Fix

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Your Brain On Nature. [Editor Note: Roger Lohr, publisher of XCSkiResorts.com and SeniorsSkiing.com's Nordic Editor, reports on the therapeutic effects of being outside.  We thought it, now we know it.] The Nature Fix by Florence Williams, published…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (July 20)

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More On Skiing Chile, Fat Bikes For Seniors, Mammoth Invests In Summer, Lost Baby Robin, Alone In The Woods. Summer is in full glory as we write this. So far, in New England, we've had a massive, long-lasting heat wave, heavy rains, clear skies,…
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Tale Of A Baby Robin

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You Can Find Adventure In Your Own Back Yard. This Adventure Began In A Window Well. [Author's note: I'm stuck at home with an arm in a cast. Can't drive. Can't hike. Can't, can't, can't. The baby robin tale is a good reminder that adventure and…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (June 22)

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Southern Hemisphere Special, Safe and Sane Cycling For Seniors, Zany Videos, El Nino Coming. Yes folks, it's the start of the ski season in far away places below the Equator. Here's a picture of downtown Santiago, Chile, which received a highly unusual…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (May 18)

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Survey Results: Summer Activities, Summer Trail Prep, Sacropenia Defense. We are in high spring, as it were, as of this writing, and yet they are still squeezing out runs in Killington, VT, and will be until the end of May. Here's a pic from last weekend…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (April 20)

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Discount Reminders, Season Thanks, Washing Down, Stowing Gear, Abandoned Ski Area Movie, -30- This amazing season hangs on. Even as we write this on April 19 snow is falling in New England, in fact, right outside our window on Boston's North Shore.…
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Mystery Glimpse: First US Winter Olympic Medalist Was A Ski Jumper

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Only Two Guesses, One Was Correct. Apparently, our last Mystery Glimpse of the season was fairly esoteric. We salute reader Patricia Gottshalk for identifying Anders Olsen Haugen, the US Ski Team member who was the first American to win a Winter Olympics…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (April 13)

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Looking Back, Mystery Glimpse, Spring XC Skiing, Riding With The Cats. It's hard not to get a bit philosophical at the end of a season. And yes, we know that there are those who are still finding newly fallen snow out there, but we are done. Highlights…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (April 6)

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Season Hangs On, Cross-Country Lessons, Apex Boot Highlights, Bob Beattie, Fun & Games, Mystery Train. Click Here To See Where Snow Fell Day By Day From Oct 5th to March 26th.  A glance at the map shows where the season's snow accumulated and…
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