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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. In the 1930s the hill pictured…
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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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SeniorsSkiing Guide: Saving Laurel Mountain From Obscurity

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Western PA Pioneer Area Comes Back To Full Operation. There has been a lot written about the lost ski areas.  For one reason or another, ski areas sometimes are unable to meet the financial or operational requirements and end up closing the lifts. …
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Goofy And Mickey On The Art Of Skiing

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This Throw-Back Cartoon Reveals The Stereotypes Of Skiing In The 70s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC4ikSRwIEM&feature=share Credit: Walt Disney Productions (Of Course!)
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10 Reasons To Go Skiing This Winter: John Christie’s Last Article

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[Editor Note: We are honored to publish one of John Christie's last articles about skiing, snow, and the outdoors.  John was one of snow sports most ardent supporters, from his days as a college racer to the development and management of major ski resorts…
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New England Ski Museum Tells 3,000 Years Of Ski History

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From The Stone Age To Today. The tiny museum in Franconia, New Hampshire is located next to Cannon Mountain's gondola base, and it's a wonderland. Even before you enter, you're intrigued by what you see just outside the door and you ask yourself: "What's…
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Skiing In Literature: Pete Seeger’s “Snow, Snow”

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Haunting Song Evokes Winter Night Snow Fall. Everybody knows Pete Seeger and his folk songs from archival ballads to anthems of struggle, the peace and labor movement, and the rest.  What is not widely known is that Pete was a lyrical poet, and some…
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Fifty Years Of Ski Racing In Two Minutes

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Check Out The Change In Equipment, Styles, Spectators Through The Years. Many thanks to the Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance for posting this really interesting clip.  The CSIA got it from Skitourowe Zakopane.pl., a Polish ski travel group enticing…
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Skiing North America: Every Resort, Everywhere

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An 85-Year Old Believes Someone Has To Do It; It Might As Well Be Him. So many ski areas, so little time. Yet at age 85, John Andrew is still busily crossing them off his list. Over the past 20 years, Andrew has been on a mission to ski all 700 alpine…
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Review: Warren Miller’s Latest Is A Winner!

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"Here, There, & Every Where" Brings Out Pre-Season Inner Child. Warren Miller has been bringing out my pre-season Inner Child since I was a kid in Troy, NY. Every Fall he presented and narrated his latest film to a full house. For me he conveyed…
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Warren Miller’s Story: You May Be A Skier Because Of Him

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New Autobiography Shows How Miller Created Skiing's Visual Brand. For any senior who’s ever attended a Warren Miller film, Freedom Found, My Life Story will provide an intriguing look at skiing history as well as Miller’s success story. The autobiography…
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From One Ski Pole to Two

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A Personal Experience As Told To Alan K. Engen. The late Ruth Rogers Altmann, a good friend and longtime Alta skier, was born in Vienna in 1917. She learned to ski in the Austrian Alps. Ruth’s earliest ski lessons involved the transition from Mathias…
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Long Pole Skiing

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What Is Old Is New Again. Last season, 38-year-old Ma Liqin visited Norway to demonstrate an ancient skiing style still used in the Altai Mountains, a range located at the intersection of China, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia. People in that region…
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Alaska Spine Skiing: A Virtual, Visceral, Vicarious Experience

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While We All Await The Snow To Fly, This Might Give You A Rush. Pro skier and extreme athlete Richard Permin rips down a spine ridge in Alaska somewhere.  While we aren't advocating this kind of skiing, we do appreciate the skill and courage it…
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Remembering Portillo’s FIS World Championships 1966

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Fifty Years Ago, Portillo Changed Everyone's Idea About Skiing Below The Equator. At the time, it was a wild idea.  Hold the FIS World Championships in Chile, at Portillo, at 3,300 meters, in the Northern hemisphere's summer. Somehow, resort owner…
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Stein Eriksen: Secret Tales Of His Life

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The Ski Industry Remembers His Humor And Tenderness. Iconic Stein Eriksen was famous for his stylish and graceful ski turns. Generation of skiers tried to mimic him. "Stein made the turns we all wish we could make," said Tom Kelly, vice president of…
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Cross-Country Legend Sven Wiik, 95

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Olympic Ski Coach, X-C Pioneer, Hotel Owner Was A Major Contributor To Growth Of The Sport. Sven Wiik, a Swedish native who helped promote cross-country skiing in North America through coaching and promoting the sport, has died at 95 in Steamboat…
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History, Memories, Books, And More

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ISHA's 2016 Skiing History Week at Aspen. The International Skiing History Association (ISHA) and the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame held their annual Skiing History Week at Aspen on April 5 - 10. My wife Judy and I attended, partly for the presentations,…
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100 Years Of Ski Fashion

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Clever Video Shows The Evolution of Dressing For The Snow. Thanks to the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum and Hall of Fame for producing this trip through ski history. Click below for a six-minute video clip. Perhaps you might remember wearing some…
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Returning To X-C: New Technology, New Found Serenity

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John Christie, Ski Industry Veteran, Re-Discovers His Love For Cross-Country Skiing. Editor's Note: SeniorsSkiing.com is proud to have this contribution from John Christie. John is a legend in the ski business. Founder, owner and/or manager of…
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