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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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Coming to You Soon? Skiable, Outdoor, Summer Snow.

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Finally, Outdoor Summer Snow. It's the invention of TechnoAlpin, an Italian manufacturer of snow making equipment. Its Snow Factory addresses warming trends challenging the future of skiing, allowing skiable snow to be made when air temps are warm.…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (June 3)

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Survey Headlines, Still Skiing At Stowe, Cycling Series. This week, we welcome a new advertiser to SeniorsSkiing.com. Vail Realty has joined our crew. Note their ad in the right column, and also note that they are providing a 20 percent discount…
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Survey Highlights: Surprises And Advice

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Here Are Top Level Findings: Discounts, Meet Ups, Instruction. We are so grateful to the many readers who responded to our Spring Subscriber Survey 2016. We had a 28 percent response rate. Anyone who knows surveys and response rates can appreciate…
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May 26: Spring Skiing At Stowe

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Now This Is Hard Core. Saw this on Facebook and had to show you.  This is from Robby Kelley at Stowe Mountain Resort.  His pal Ryan Siegle hiked and skied in 80 degree weather. Comments?
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (May 27)

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Indoor Skiing, Inspiration From A Senior Swimmer, Update On Free Senior Skiing In NH, College Course On Mountains And Art. The response rate to SeniorsSkiing.com's Spring Subscriber Survey 2016 is, frankly, astonishing.  We're at 29%, a number that…
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Indoor Skiing Tries Again: Toronto Next

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Experts And Beginners Can Ski All Year On Faux Snow. Many years ago, we remember when the town of Etobicoke, ONT, a suburb of Toronto, used its municipal trash collection to build a ski hill. That's a clue to how geographically feature-less the terrain…
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Update: Free Senior Skiing at Reinstated In NH House Bill

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Now The State Senate Must Approve. A bill that would have eliminated free skiing for NH seniors has been amended to reinstate the senior benefit and is being sent back to the Senate for approval. The bill would have charged seniors different rates…
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Diana Nyad: Breathing Primal Life Force at 66

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Inspiration Department: Marathon Swimmer Reflects On Staying Vital and Bold. When Diana Nyad attempted to swim from Cuba to Florida when she was 28 years old, she failed.  She was 64 when she finally succeeded.  Her message about defining who we…
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Wesleyan University Course: Art, Mountains, and Skiing

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Professor Combines Passions and Art; Students Publish Textbook on the Subject Editor Note: The author is this article is Peter Mark, a professor of Art History at Wesleyan University. He is author of five books about pre-colonial Africa, has taught in…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (May 20)

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Spring Survey Responses A Wow, Fling Golf, La Nina Coming Soon, More Cycling Series. We are truly awed and grateful for the incredible, enthusiastic responses we’ve been getting to our Spring Subscriber Survey 2016. If you’re familiar at all…
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New Golf: Ready For A Fling?

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Snowboarding:Skiing as Fling Golf:Golf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVDUq1Rqd10 We love sport entrepreneurs.  These folks are creative and have bold ideas about bringing new sport ideas to the public.  The guy who invented Fling Golf is certainly…
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Adios, El Nino, Hola, La Nina

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Big Changes Are Coming Again To Next Season's Weather. http://imgur.com/vWhAWDU The image above shows how the sea surface temperature is changing from warm to cooler, signaling the advent of a La Nina event. Weather scientists are predicting that…
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Cycling Series: Rolling Among The Rocks At Arches

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Once Past The Crowds, Another World Opens Up. Looking out the window of a car just can’t capture the otherworldly beauty of Arches National Park in Utah. In this stark and dramatic landscape of towering spires, delicate arches and balanced rocks,…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (May 13)

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Survey Launch, Hiking Boots, Basics Of Fly Fishing, John Christie Passing. As we write this, our SeniorsSkiing.com Spring Survey 2016 was sent out just over three hours ago, and we are already approaching a 10 percent response rate.  Three Hours!…
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Fly Fishing: Three Ideas For Getting Started

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There Are Parallels Between Skiing And Fly-Fishing. Ski season is over; what now? Some turn to hiking, biking, tennis, or pickle ball. For me it’s fly fishing. The pursuit of wily trout with fake insects has things in common with skiing. Both…
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John Christie, Ski Legend, 1937-2016

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Ski Area Operator, Author, Story-Teller, Outdoorsman, and Hardy Mainer. Maine ski legend John Christie, 79, unexpectedly passed away on Monday, May 9th.  He was a former owner of Saddleback Mountain, former GM of Sugarloaf and Mt. Snow, an inductee…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (May 6)

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Season Finales, Cycle Series Continues, Poll Results, and BC Resort Review. It's mud time in New England, and we've yet to see one of those beautiful, warm, aromatic May spring days around here. It's been more like November: chilly, raw, drizzly.…
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Poll Results: People Are Still Out There

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The Odd Snow Season Lingers On. We hear from lots of SeniorsSkiing.com readers about places they are currently skiing and intend to ski all the way into Memorial Day. Most are from the West, but, as we have seen in this week's Boston Globe article, there…
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