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We bring Ski News, advice on Destinations, Gear, Health and provide a Nostalgic look at ski history and heroes. Benefit from special reports on best skis for older skiers. Occasional notices of deep pricing discounts and other special deals. SeniorsSkiing is the online magazine for the 50+ snow sports enthusiasts. Our readers are actively engaged year-round in the joie d'vivre of an..
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1M ago
Three cheers for spring. It means longer hours to linger in the sunshine, wearing fewer layers, ditching goggles for sunglasses, and also enjoying oodles of end-of-season events and early bird discounts for next season, including new season pass options. Here is a round-up of what to check out before you pack away your skis, snowboards, neck warmers and base layers for[Read More ..read more
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1M ago
Powder Mountain is about to embark on a private/public ski area development venture. In a bid to sell more real estate, a large segment of the mountain will become the exclusive domain of the on-mountain home owners. Like Homewood in California and Windham Mountain in New York, Utah’s Powder will be a hybrid model with major changes for longtime devotees.[Read More ..read more
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1M ago
With Ikon and Epic season passes costing around $1,000, and some walkup day passes hitting $300, a $6,000 Lifetime Pass sounds like a great deal. That’s what’s being offered by Loup Loup Ski Bowl, a small and fiercely independent ski destination in Okanagan, in central Washington State about 125 miles northeast of Seattle. It’s an innovative effort to create a cash[Read More ..read more
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1M ago
The aging process does weird things to the mind. We remember days of yesteryear winding down through moguls on a steep run all day, thinking it was fun. Or floating through knee-deep powder all day from when the lifts open until they close. Today, in my dotage, when confronted with a steep pitch full of knee-high, well-rounded moguls, I go[Read More ..read more
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1M ago
As a young ski racer, I learned the importance of properly tune skis. Now as an old a recreational skier, I can assure you skiing “tuned” skis makes the sport more enjoyable. Tuning a pair of skis answers three questions. One, do the bindings work as advertised? Two, are the bottoms flat, not convex or concave? And three, are the[Read More ..read more
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1M ago
Riding a chair lift last month, I saw them on a skier below. Ten days later, I saw them again, this time at an area 2,000 miles away. CADS… Constant – force Articulated Dynamic Struts … the odd looking, butt-to-boots device designed to keep skiers with knee and other lower body strength and stamina issues on the slopes and skiing[Read More ..read more
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1M ago
This week Don Burch brings us A very personal account of what skiing means to him. Enjoy! ..read more
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1M ago
When one thinks of the first ski areas in the U.S., one thinks of Sun Valley or Stowe. Few know that in 1936, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains east of Santa Fe, NM, Robert Nordhaus installed a rope two to haul people up the slopes of what is now Ski Santa Fe. It was used as a training area[Read More ..read more
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2M ago
Way back when in the last century, after I started skiing, ski bottoms were wood. Then, Kofix, the first polymer bottom, came out in 1956 followed by P-Tex 2000 in 1966. Since then, every ski has a polyethylene bottoms. The lure, besides better gliding over the snow, was that with P-Tex, one didn’t have to ever wax your skis again.[Read More ..read more
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2M ago
So, I was surprised this week when my friend Eric, from Tahoe (formerly of Vermont), mailed me some pictures from way back when we skied Tuckerman Ravine together. Looking at these 40 year old photos, I thought back to a time when we laid down the only tracks one day in Dodge’s Drop ( and Eric had a cast on his[Read More ..read more