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Ridin’ With The Cats

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What's It Like To Groom Trails At Night? They come out at night and do their job. You can see their lights progressing across the ski slope and occasionally hear their roar. And the next morning, they’ve left this delicious set of corduroy tracks…
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The Archetype Senior Skier? This Guy Sure Looks The Part

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74 Year Old Long Time Ski Host Books 120 Ski Days A Year At Big White. Jealous? It might seem strange that an American from the Spokane area knows this sprawling British Columbia ski resort better than just about anyone. Carlan Silha has been…
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Oz And EnZed: Skiing The Antipodes

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Ski And Snowboard Show Impresario Bernie Weichsel Reports On The Down Under Scene. For most of us in the international ski community, whether here in the US and Canada, or within the Alpine countries of Europe, there is good news to be found in Australia…
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Meanwhile In Australia…

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We Have Hurricanes And Wildfires.  Oz Has Big Snow.  Sound Like A Theme? The news from Down Under is that the snows are prodigious, the depths of which haven't been seen in 17 years. The snowpack in Australian snow fields is up to 97 inches,…
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Suzie In The Selkirks

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Run After Run Of Perfect Powder For Five Straight Days. Snowcat Skiing At Its Best. Do you dream of skiing in untracked powder?  Of course! We all do!  And most of us get one or two runs at resorts that offer “fresh tracks” early in the morning before…
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Master’s Week At Big White: Senior Focused Lessons And Activities

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Big White Found The Right Formula To Attract Seniors For A Special Week Just For Them. Like so many things of yesteryear, ski weeks are making a comeback. And not surprisingly, they’re aimed at the same folks who went ski trips back during the ski…
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Master’s Week At Big White: The Social Side For Seniors

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There's More Than Ski Clinics For Seniors That Make Big White's Master's Week Unique. [Editor Note: Correspondent Yvette Cardozo also reported on Big White's Master's Week focusing on the ski instruction elements.  Here, she shows us the social side…
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SeniorsSkiing Guide: Big White, Big Senior-Friendly

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Big Choice Of Intermediate Runs, "Master" Lessons, Bring Seniors Back Each Year. It’s hard to find a resort better suited to older skiers than the popular British Columbia destination of Big White. Located in Okanagan region of B.C. near the…
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Follow The Leader At L2A

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Synchronized Cruising In The French Alps Captured By Drone. This reminds us of the coordinated swimming events we see in the Olympic Games, minus the gel in the hair.  Well, kind of. A group of skiers cruises down and around the slopes at Les…
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Videos Show Skiing in Alaska, China, Iran, Central Asia

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Arc'teryx And The North Face on YouTube With Top Cinematography And Music That Doesn't Blow Your Eardrums. In 1990 China had zero ski resorts. Today there are 568, including Jackson Hole, a residential and ski community a few hours north of Beijing. Iran…
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Resort Review: L2A, France—”Two Alps, Two Seasons”

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Les Deux Alpes, France: Seniors 72+ Ski Free. Editor's Note: This Resort Review was written by Val E., a reader who has an interesting background in the ski industry. Val used to work as a ski slalom course supervisor, snowboard technician, ski/snowboard…
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Whakapapa Ice: Happening Now

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North America Swelters, NZ Freezes. In case you missed it during this hottest summer of all time, the ski season is in full swing down under.  Here's a clip from Whakapapa Ski Field, New Zealand's largest winter resort.  Located on the North Island,…
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Vandals Destroy World’s Oldest Skier Image

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Picture Used as Lillehammer Games Logo. The world's oldest known image of a person on skis -- a 5,000 year old petroglyph on the Norwegian island of Tro -- has been destroyed by vandals. The image was used as the logo for the 1994 Lillehammer Winter…
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Resort Review: Mt. Baldy BC Has A $19 Senior Season Pass! Seriously.

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A Small Area Enchants Seniors, Offering Bargain Skiing In Big Powder. Editor Note: This review was written by Jim Barber, a long time skier and ski business veteran.  He lives near Mt. Baldy and loves his retirement home in BC.  Here's his story:…
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Skiing Eye Candy For Hot Summer Days

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Yes, It's An Ad, But—Wow—Some Awesome Videography. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgbWnPWNxOA&feature=youtu.be&list=PL73DB09C8288CCBBF Okay, okay, this is a video ad for CMH Heli Skiing, but it'll do for a bit of a visual fix for these mid summer…
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GoPro: Let Me Take You To The Mountain

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Heli-Skiing In Chilean Andes With Breathtaking Lines. Yes, it's summer and the snow is gone.  Not in Chile.  As you may be aware, the resort at Portillo received nine feet of snow earlier in June.  Nine feet! So, we decided to follow up with…
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Ski Portillo Gets 9 Feet!!!!!

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Road to Resort Blocked. Winter shifted hemispheres quickly this week and delivered a 9-foot monster dump of snow on Ski Portillio. Resort operators there are ecstatic with the early season delivery. Dramatic satellite images show the day-before/day-after…
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Skiing In Oz: The Season Is Just Beginning

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Here's A Snapshot Of Skiing Down Under. [Editor Note:  This was written by Melbourne, Australia-based Marg Malkin, a retired ski industry veteran who spends February and March at SilverStar, BC.  She is SeniorsSkiing.com's first Australian contributor.…
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