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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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Poll Results: Help Us Interpret This

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What's going on here? Poll results are in. A clear majority of SeniorsSkiing.com respondents have never seen a ski patroller lift a ticket from a speeding skier. One out of five have seen that happen only once. Interestingly, early results from our…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (January 15)

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Finally Snow In The Sierra, Mt. Rose and The Chutes, Road Scholar Report, Product Ideas, Action Camera Reviews and All About Nordic Ski Binding Choices. Thankfully this week, the snow began to fall and the temperature dip in the Northeast.  New…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (January 8)

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Resort Reviews, Remembering Stein. As part of our new SeniorsSkiing Guides, we have two new resort reviews to check out. These reviews are designed to focus on aspects of different ski areas—Alpine and Nordic—that are “senior-friendly." New contributor…
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SeniorsSkiing Guide: Bretton Woods—A Triple Play Resort

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Roger Lohr, Publisher of XCSkiResorts.Com, Reports On Bretton Woods' Snow Assets: Alpine, Nordic, Historic Hotels. Bretton Woods is part of the Omni Mount Washington Resort at the southern base of the mighty Mt. Washington in New Hampshire on Route…
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Happy Snow Year 2016!

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From All Of Us At SeniorsSkiing.Com: Best Wishes For A Happy, Healthy, Active New Year!
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Huff Post: Older Skier’s Guide To America’s Biggest Ski Resort

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SeniorsSkiing.com's Co-Publisher Reviews The Newly-Combined Park City-Canyons Resort. Salt Lake City-based Jon Weisberg has been waiting all summer to explore the biggest ski resort in America. With this season's huge—and apparently ongoing—dump…
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SeniorsSkiing Guide: Brighton Resort

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This Is The Utah Bucket List Resort Few Visiting Skiers Ever See. I kept hearing three sounds at Brighton on December 22, the first day of Winter, 2015. Early morning trail runs were knee deep. As more people arrived, I entered the forest. There…
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Seasons Greetings From SeniorsSkiing.Com

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Best Wishes For A Snowy 2016. Many thanks to our enthusiastic readers who continue to inspire us. Jon and Mike, Co-Publishers And our wonderful regular correspondents: Harriet Wallis, Rose Marie Cleese, Susie Winthrop, Steve Hines, Roger Lohr,…
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Poll Results: Seniors Are Serious Skiers

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Our first major poll reveals a compelling factoid about our readers. Last spring, we did our first Subscriber Survey to learn, among other things, just who our readers were.  We learned that you guys like discounts first and foremost.  We also learned…
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Skiing In The Rain: Yes You Can

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Don't Stay Home: Precip Can Be Hip. For seniors who like to zig without the worry of another skier’s zag, one of the best times to hit uncrowded slopes is in the rain. Sometimes that is what these early season ski days bring us. It’s not exactly…
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Ski History Gala Awards Top Honors

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And SeniorsSkiing.com Makes A Contribution. The country's largest ski history and research organization, Ski Archives, held its annual gala and fundraiser that helps support its mission. And SeniorSkiing.com contributed four gifts to the silent fund…
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France, nous t’aimons

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Special Edition: SeniorsSkiing.com Announces “Senior-Friendly” Resorts

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Results of SeniorsSkiing.Com's Recent Survey And Industry Research Reveals 16 Winners Sixteen resorts in the East. Midwest, West/Northwest, and Canada are recognized as "Senior Friendly" for their proactive efforts to meet the needs of older skiers. The…
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Huff Post: 98 Resorts Where Seniors Ski Free

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SeniorsSkiing.Com's Co-Publisher Reports On Where You Can Get Free Skiing Huff Post's Post 50 Blog features our own Jon Weisberg reporting on the 98 resorts in North American where seniors can ski for free.  The list of resorts both large and small…
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On The Threshhold of Winter 2015-16

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So It Begins We've been watching reports of snow in high altitude places in the West and East which makes the coming of winter seem a bit rushed this year.  There are still leaf-peepers on the roads of Vermont and New Hampshire, and snow on Halloween…
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Op-Ed: SAR In The Mountains

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Debit or Credit? If you head out on the Atlantic Ocean in a canoe and run into trouble, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) will send a 110 foot cutter to rescue you. End of story. This is not always the case here on land. The U.S. Park Service also maintains…
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Lift Tickets: An Area That Charges By The Hour?

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And Other Ticket Pricing Ideas. Pre-season cocktail hour among veteran skiers often leads to talk of the new season's pass prices. In 2001 or 2002, when Park City Mountain Resort changed its senior pass from free to $300, a flurry of letters to…
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Black Diamond Introduces New Online Film Series

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Exploring The Call Of Mountains Black Diamond, the climbing, skiing, mountain sports equipment and apparel manufacturer, is introducing BD TV, a new online film series. According to the company, the series is "dedicated to sharing stories from the…
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