One week from last Saturday I took a bike ride. The weather was not optimal and I was not dressed appropriately. Not only those two factors, but I had little and poor sleep the night before and was extremely stressed out with an incident from the day before eating at my soul. To add to that, [...]
The Midwest Ski Film Festival announces: To The Ski Industry: Dibs on October 15th and 16th. With Love, The Midwest Ski Film Festival. http://bit.ly/c2WrXh .
Many imagine nature as only nurturing, but lets be honest, it can also be destructive. Many animals in addition to us, build structures to aid in survival and all such animals have to work to maintain those structures. One thing people new to house ownership quickly learn is the forces of nature conspire against them [...]
I find there are a number of different activities many skiers like. Obviously most of them are outdoor activities, if the cold, snow, and winds of Winter do not keep us from skiing we will surely find as many reasons we can to be outside during the rest of the year. I am sure I [...]
From time to time I dream of skiing. I am not talking of day dreaming, but about night dreams. It is one thing to day dream of something, but to night dream of it is different. Last night I had a ski dream, I always wake up from these thinking I am a better skier than [...]
Water-skiing! When I was younger and there was about 40 pounds less of me I was a fanatic about water-skiing. I would ski as often as I could, and got to be fairly good at it, but never had the chance to measure myself objectively. I am not the most athletic person. When young I was very [...]
Spring in my opinion is the lamest of the seasons. This spring has not been so bad, but usually the time between the end of my ski season and when spring turns nice enough is intolerably long. Spring in Wisconsin is a lot of up and downs. One day the temperatures will be in the 60s [...]
I was in the reading room earlier today. I opened the drawer and pulled out a fairly new addition to my library and that is an older copy of ESPN the Magazine the issue dated February 22, 2010. So, it is now nearly two months old. I never really looked at it but did so today [...]
If you have a blog or ever dabbled in blogging you know how blogging for bucks makes gardening in the desert seem easy. It is not that easy and ad-revenue is tough to earn. In fact, my experiences indicate the more I write the less revenue I earn from the advertising. So, when I came across [...]
I want to give a shout out to Ski Rebel Magazine online ski magazine. I just discovered the site and like it and is pretty much what I envision for this site.
About one month ago I relaxed commenting requirements, I no longer require you to sign in to comment on an article. I set this site up that way to head off spam comments, still the spam crept in via pingbacks and trackbacks. I then relaxed the sign in requirement and the comments then started rolling [...]
Too many times in our lives we cruise on autopilot. We wake up, we go through some routine, we go to bed. We wake up the next day hoping something changes,nothing changes but we repeat the routine. I am not going to repeat the cliché, but when something is not working we have to move [...]
Those of you who live in locations having four distinct seasons know that certain sounds accompany each season Some of the sounds are natural being made by animals, insects, birds, and some are man-made. Usually, they arrive suddenly and without warning and just as usual they slowly and unnoticeably fade to nothingness. This is most apparent with [...]
Received the following note in my inbox last Thursday: Race Registration for the 2011 Birkie, Korte & Prince Haakon Events is NOW OPEN! Skiers may register online hereor [sic] print a race application and fax it to 715-634-5663 or mail it to our office at: ABSF PO Box 911 Hayward WI 54843 There was more information and links in the e-mail [...]
My full review of Hot Tub Time Machine is now completely open. I password protected it and gave out the password as a spoiler. That password protection is now removed. I figure most of you have seen the movie and if you have not seen the movie you don’t mind having certain aspects of the movie [...]
I hit the Wiouwash Trail again today. It was a couple of days since my last ride, biking for big guys like myself can be traumatic to certain parts of the body. Two things, sitting in the saddle and the constant and nearly non stop rubbing of body parts, forget about the normal fatigue that [...]
It feels good too! My first ride of the season happened today (Tuesday April 13). I picked up the bike and ran some other errands and returned home dropped off that stuff, got lunch, ran some more errands. I came home and busted out my bike gear and got back in the saddle. I rode for a little [...]
I just got my bike tuned. Unlike my plan with my skis, I have had this done professionally. Not so much because I do not want to do it, but more because I am not familiar and have never had it done before. Not an excuse, but an opportunity for learning! I am having this done at [...]
Over at the Michigan Ski Report on the Fall Line Blog Jason notes: As an individual that grew up skiing in Northern Michigan, including Sugar Loaf, I have been considering a post on the subject for some time now and didn’t feel inclined to write about it until the most recent article was posted by the [...]
Skiers understand the term wedge in a different manner than teen bully pranksters. Skiing in a wedge is also called the snowplow stance and is when you ski by weighting the inside edges of both skis and point the tips at each other and the tails are spread apart, another term used to describe this [...]
