Backcountry Skiing..Your Winter Window Into The Chugach.
Gorp can stimulate the most interesting encounters in the mountains. When others offer their gorp, it’s usually out of friendship or because you look like you could use some food. Everyone carries gorp. If one is bold enough they reach into that bag of pleasure (or bacteria) and throw a handful of good calories into the body. Back-country skiers burn […]
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Hopefully everyone has been out all summer enjoying the great outdoors with a variety of activities. For me this included biking, hiking and an occasional backpacking trip. With ski season just around the corner, I am focusing on October 15 as my start day. Like the Boy Scouts say “Be Prepared”. Then it’s game on, up, and down. But before […]
Read moreI don’t like getting hurt, especially on the first day of skiing which may be only days away. With that as my primary focus it is time to move around and get in ski shape. In the past I’ve done a variety of routines on a nearly daily basis beginning on September 1 for an Oct 15 start date. Last […]
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