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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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Masters Program At Kirkwood: The Trend Continues

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Sierra-Tahoe Resort Hosts Seniors "Ski For Life" Special—Clinics, Education, Socializing. Kirkwood Mountain Resort in the Sierra Tahoe region is joining a number of ski areas that are conducting programs focused on their senior skiers.  Kirkwood…
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Jay Peak Making Lemonade From A Lemon Ski Season

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Vermont's Jay Peak's Video Shows How Creative Eastern Skiers Can Be When Making The Most Out Of Lemons. The clever skiers from the Northeast Kingdom discover a lemon tree right on the ski trail.  Can you count the number of ways they make lemonade?…
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Harriet Wallis Hailed As Ski Utah’s Journalist Of Year

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It's The Second Time Harriet Has Won This Award! Harriet Wallis earned Ski Utah's top award – Journalist of the Year – for outstanding and consistent ski stories and photos about skiing in Utah.  She's had 64 stories and 71 photos published this…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Apr 1)

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Skiing In Literature Series Launched, Fun Products, Snowshoeing At Ski Resorts, Plus A Report On Roads Scholars Trip to Telluride, CO. This isn’t an April Fool joke. There is a forecast of snow for this weekend in the Boston area. Come on, Old Man…
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DeBooter: DeLovely Way For Easy (And Painless) Boot Removal

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A Smart Ski Boot Jack That Really Works. They are the collective sounds of people removing their ski boots: the moans of agony and the sighs of joy heard in lots and lodges around the globe. I'm simply relieved to get the damn things off, but…
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Seniors Snowshoe At Alpine Resorts

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Snowshoeing—Fun, Easy, Safe—Steps Into Ski Country. Find Out Where. Not everyone who visits a ski resort wants to or is able to ski or snowboard, so resorts offer other activities. Among those options, guests can explore and enjoy the outdoors…
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Helpful Handy Hand Warmer Hints

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From Newborn Mittens to YOUR Mittens. Editor Note: Sue Z. is a senior skier and craftsperson who hangs out at Alta.  She wrote a recent gift idea that showed how to transform worn out ski socks into a cool scarf.   Like many older skiers, I rely…
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Road Scholars Ski Telluride

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Wonderful Value With Close-to-Lift Lodging. “You can’t find a better value than Road Scholar” is their claim. My wife Judy and I decided to test it the first week of March with the Telluride program run for Road Scholar by the Mountains and…
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Feds Auctioning Yellowstone’s Snowcoaches

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$10K for Previously Owned Bombadiers Could Make Your Commute Interesting. For years, Yellowstone National Park transported winter visitors down snowy roads in large—no, humongous—Bombardier snowcoaches. Slow, noisy, and big-time gas guzzlers,…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Mar. 25)

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Serious Senior Discounts Now, A Seattle Ski Area That Challenges, A New Energy Bar That Tastes Good, Poll Results: Are You Done?, And Fun—A Ski Slope On An Incinerator and Feedback Time for Old Man Winter. This week, we reveal the results of the…
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“Waste” Deep Skiing Due Soon In Copenhagen

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Incinerator With Skiable Roof to Open in 2017. For reasons I can't fully explain, Denmark ranks at the top of the 2016 edition of the United Nations "World Happiness Report." I've been to Copenhagen a few times and enjoyed the people and the food.…
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Poll Results: Easterners’ Sense Of Done

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Short Year Of Skiing For Seniors In The East. As you can see, the results of our recent SeniorsSkiing.com poll reveal that about half of Eastern respondents are done or almost done with skiing this season.  On to taking the cover off the boat, cleaning…
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Why, Winter, Why? Snow On First Day Of Spring In Boston

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Winter In The East: Performance Review

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We've Been Watching Your Performance, And We Have To Talk. Thanks to Killington Ski Resort for this hilarious take down of Winter.  You guys in the West have no idea...  
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Mar. 18)

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A Senior Boarder Tells All, Crazy Matterhorn Run, Products and Senior Day at Jack Frost. We received a post card in the mail from a reader who explained that the weekly delivery of SeniorsSkiing.com to her electronic doorstep was lessened by hard-to-read,…
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Confessions Of A Senior Snowboarder

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He Went To From Skier To Boarder. Here's How And What Happened. I have to confess, I was once one of you before I moved to the Dark Side. Yes, I skied in the East Coast and the West Coast, in the Rockies and also in Austria, enjoying the feeling…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Mar.11)

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Resort and Product Reviews, Another Jackson Hole, Snowless Skiing, Skiing With Life-Long Friends, and An Artist On The Ski Slopes. Well, it was 77 official degrees when we left Boston Wednesday this week to go a-skiing in Vermont.  This is the season…
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Snowless Skiing in Stockholm: The Future?

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Swedish Ingenuity Overcomes Lack of Snow. Boston, Pay Attention!   Cheer up New England skiers! There may be no snow, but with some guts and imagination all things are possible. Just look at what these young skiers in a snowless Stockholm…
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