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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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The Ski Diva Heads West

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All-Women Ski Trip Brings Kindred Spirits Together Our friend and colleague, The Ski Diva, gathers a group of Diva Members for an annual ski trip to exciting places.  This year, her group went to Montana where they had a rocking good time.  Click here…
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Serious Stuff: There Is No Such Thing As “Side Country”

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And There Is No Such Thing As Being A Little Bit Dead. Yesterday we rode the chairlift with a bozo. Okay. Maybe he wasn't a bozo. Maybe he was just clueless. All the way up he yapped about his skiing prowess. And near the top he phoned home to give…
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Portrait Of A Weird February: East, Coldest; West, Warmest

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Here's a picture of our weather record-breaking mid-winter month. Black and White, Ying and Yang, Macy's and Gimbel's, Felix and Oscar: These opposites come to mind when we look at this picture of what happened to the weather in February, 2015.  The…
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Come On Over, Western Skiers: Eastern Snow Is Epic

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Boston Reports Over 100 Inches, 2 1/2 More Than Normal, With Three More Weeks Of Winter To Go. If you are a senior skier from the West, you are probably wondering what's going on with the snow.  Our correspondent in Utah report skiers taking two or…
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The Get Started Basics Of Snowshoeing

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Here's Another Way To Enjoy Winter That Seniors Can Easily Get Into Snowshoeing, once a practical means of winter travel, is now a winter recreational activity. It provides many folks  an outdoor winter alternative to skiing or X-C. In fact, most ski…
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The Ski Diva Focuses On Senior Skiers

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Women's ski site explores the benefits of being senior skiers
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Huff Post: Skiing With Senior Eyes

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Huffington Post Features SeniorsSkiing.com's co-founder Jon Weisberg On Light, Goggles and Lenses We've all been there.  Flat light conditions, slow down, stop.  Take your goggles off and put them on.  Peer down the slope.  Proceed slowly, cautiously…
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Is This Guy For Real? Amazing Candide Thovex In The Alps

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Daredevil is becoming an -ism.  Here's yet another impossible run. We wonder if videos like this help recruit people to skiing or turn them off.  It sure looks, um, well, risky.  What do you think? Professional skiers Candide Thovex totally shreds…
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We’ll Have What They’re Having

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Skiing En Masse Down A Mountain In The Buff Must Have Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time. We'd like to have at the conference table when the idea for this video came to up.  Not sure where or when this took place, but thanks to Mountain Life magazine…
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Straight Down: Cody Townsend and Gravity

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Now This Should Tighten You Up. Cody Townsend, professional free skier and athlete, takes on the most improbable ski run we've ever seen.  The scene is a near vertical chute in Alaska's Tordrillo Mountains, more like a elevator shaft than a ski run.…
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Huff Post: Essential Gear Senior Skiers Need To Carry

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Huffington Post Features SeniorsSkiing.com's Co-Founder Jon Weisberg On Necessary Accessories SeniorsSkiing.com's co-founder Jon Weisberg has been skiing for 60 years and clearly gotten his equipment kit down pat.  In this Huffington Post Post-50 Blog…
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GoPro Flipping Out On Mt. Cook

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Free-skier Tom Wallisch corks it on New Zealand's Tallest Mountain Some say skiing is flying with different expectations.  Take a look at this short video from GoPro with professional free-skier Tom Wallisch down in En-Zed.  Aside from the corkscrew…
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Flash: Colder, Snowier Winter 2015 Forecast For New England

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Latest Prediction from WBZ-TV Meteorologist Forecasts Cold and Snow With the season just getting started, we've been diligently watching snow forecasts as we know know you have as well.  As we reported in an earlier post, Joel Gratz, our favorite snow…
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Huff Post: What Senior Skiers Must Remember

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Huffington Post Highlight's SeniorSkiing's Co-Founder: Is there something outdated about your equipment? SeniorsSkiing.com's Co-Founder Jon Weisberg has a new article on Huffington Post's Post 50 blog, this time about the potential risks of skiing with…
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Huff Post: Second Thoughts On Returning To The Hill?

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Huffington Post features SeniorsSkiing.com's Co-Founder encouraging seniors to come back to skiing. We get around.  SeniorsSkiing.com's Co-Founder Jon Weisberg has posted an article on Huffington Post's Post 50 blog about the concerns seniors have about…
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Afterglow: Visual Night Skiing Poetry

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When Was The Last Time You Skied In The Dark?  We bet it wasn't like this. So far, this year’s pre-snow-season has seen at least two new dazzling ski movies hit the screens. First, we couldn’t help but notice Warren Miller’s 65th ski movie,…
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Warren Miller’s Newest: “No Turning Back”

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This one is not to be missed. My first Warren Miller film was in the early 50's. That was when the Master, himself, was present to narrate each showing. You knew the season was starting when Warren rolled into town. I've seen many ski films…
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Special Edition: First SeniorsSkiing Ski Area Survey Results

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Free Skiing, Deep Discounts For Senior Skiers Plus "Senior Friendly" Awards Which areas are truly trying to accommodate 50-plus skiers? To find out, we surveyed 85 North American resorts. Several resorts stand out for giving senior skiers special attention…
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